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IN THIS ISSUE THERE ARE STORIES ABOUT THE SUCCESSES of SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL) and UroCor. Each company has a lesson to teach us about developing a business strategy, then making it work in the marketplace. In the case of SBCL, I was astonished to realize that it has quietly become the sole source …
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IS CONSOLIDATION GOOD OR BAD FOR OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM? I don’t know if any of us could accurately answer that question. For better or for worse, big corporations will continue to buy up the little guys. I do feel confident in predicting that ongoing consolidation will occur in all areas of healthcare. Among our readership, …
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AT MY AGE, I AM LEARNING THAT PEOPLE TEND TO HOLD ONE OF TWO OPINIONS about me. It seems that I can frequently be considered a doddering old fool who is totally unhip (although I recall an even earlier generation calling it “unhep”). On the other hand, there are those who grant me great respect. …
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COUNT ME AS ONE WHO IS NOT SURPRISED THAT SEVERAL of healthcare’s billion-dollar corporations have posted huge losses. I may be at the age of retirement, and I might be guilty of values and ethics often labeled as “old fashioned,” but I am possessed with common sense. Those of our clients carefully following news stories …
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“SHOOTING FISH IN THE BARREL” MAY BE A GOOD METAPHOR TO DESCRIBE what can soon happen to the profession of pathology. This issue of THE DARK REPORT covers several important stories on laboratory management, with direct consequences to pathologists. First, the ISO 9001 certification of the Nichols Institute division of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (see pages …
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IT MAY SURPRISE MANY PEOPLE TO LEARN THAT THIS YEAR’S Executive War College in New Orleans attracted registrants from New Zealand and Germany. What may be even more surprising is the reason they traveled from overseas to come to this particular program. Our editor met with them and learned some intriguing and useful things that I …
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THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE of how marketplace developments shape what we write. After the Executive War College in New Orleans, I spoke with our Editor, Robert Michel. We discussed his impressions from the collective information of 26 presentations. We also discussed what he had learned from conversations with the attendees, …
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THIS IS WRITTEN FOR BOTH LABORATORIANS COMING TO THE DARK REPORT’S Executive War College in New Orleans next week as well as those not attending. As I look at the registration list, I see a diverse range of attendees. Registered for this year’s event are CEOs of public laboratories and owners of independent commercial laboratories. Hospital …
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IT MAY BE PREMATURE OF OUR EDITOR TO PREDICT that increasing numbers of HMOs will choose to withdraw from state Medicaid programs during the next 24 months. (See pages 4-6.) But I do think he is on target with his observations that hospitals, physicians, and insurance companies will not let government healthcare regulators push them …
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