Late Breaking Lab News
March 24, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Things are happening under new ownership and management at DCL Medical Laboratories LLC., based in Indianapolis, Indiana. DCL announced a strategic partnership with Third Wave Technologies Inc., a molecular diagnostics company in Madison, Wisconsin. In the partnershi…
March 03, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Another laboratory company is suing the federal government. On January 24, UroPath, LLC and three urology groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. UroPath, the largest operator of anatomic pathology (AP) condo/pod laboratory complexes, is suing …
February 11, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
In an attempt to stop or delay the start of the Medicare Laboratory Competitive Demonstration Project for the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos SMA (statistical metropolitan area), a lawsuit has been filed in federal court by Internist Laboratory of Carlsbad, Sharp Healthcare …
January 21, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It’s a laboratory acquisition that shows the importance of anatomic pathology in today’s competitive laboratory marketplace. Carilion Labs of Roanoke, Virginia, acquired Innovative Pathology Services (IPS), an anatomic pathology and cytology lab in Knoxville, Ten…
December 31, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There’s late-breaking news affecting new federal rules for the anti-markup provisions scheduled to become effective on January 1, 2008. Just days ago, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
December 10, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last month, Beckman Coulter, Inc., of Fullerton, California, announced that it will acquire the research flow cytometry instrumentation business of Dako Denmark A/S, of Glostrup, Denma…
November 19, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Readers of THE DARK REPORT may want to check out the November issue of MLO Magazine. It profiles the experiences of four scholarship winners to the Executive War College last May in Miami, Florida. Winners were Pervez A. Mirza of State University of New York (SUNY) in Brooklyn, New Y…
October 29, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Microsoft Corporation is the latest company to offer a digital health record (DHR) aimed at consumers. Called “Healthvault,” it can be found at www.healthvault.com. This secure Web site allows consumers to manage and monitor their personal health information, including w…
October 8, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Evidence is accumulating that the Leapfrog Group is getting the attention of the nations hospitals. It reports that just over half (52%) of hospitals have adopted the Leapfrog Groups’ “Never Events” policy, a list of actions hospitals pledge to take whenever a rare medical erro…
September 17, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Coming soon to a theater near you this fall is the movie Pathology, with Rutger Hauer in the starring role as a pathologist. The Internet Movie database says Pathology (www.enterpathologylab.com) is the story of how medical students decide which of them can commit the perfect murder without being det…
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