Late Breaking Lab News
August 27, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Something different is happening when the Associated Press does a story about how the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA), a lab industry trade group, has spent money lobbying Congress. The Associated Press used federal records to confirm that ACLA, paid …
August 6, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
These days, it seems as if all sorts of physicians want to cut themselves a slice of the anatomic pathology pie. Now its podiatrists! Sources tell THE DARK REPORT that a large podiatric group in Atlanta has opened its own in-office pathology lab. Reportedly, this lab is generating more than $100,000 …
July 16, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Another example of the globalization of laboratory testing services is the just-announced acquisition of laboratory middleware provider P.G.P, s.a., of Brussells, Belgium, by Data Innovations, Inc., of South Burlington, Vermont. Data Innovations states that the acqui…
June 25, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It should be boom time for companies selling Clinical Information Systems (CIS). A research report from Millennium Research Group (MRG) of Waltham, Massachusetts, predicts that patient safety programs will fuel a demand by health systems for CIS products. The report, “U.S. Markets …
June 4, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
When the Lab Quality Confab convenes in Atlanta on September 19-20, 2007, it will feature 40 speakers and sessions on how labs and pathology groups are using quality management methods to improve the performance of their lab organizations. If your laboratory would like to showcase its succes…
May 14, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
With so many baby boomers in lab management ranks making preparations for their retirement, a question now asked often is “what can I do as an encore?” Recently, THE DARK REPORT caught up with Dixie McFadden, who retired from her position as Laboratory Administrator at Kaiser Permanente N…
April 23, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last week, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated released its first quarter earnings, providing a first look at how the battle for UnitedHealth patients is unfolding. Revenue of $1.53 billion was down by 1.7%, compared to first quarter 2006 revenue of $1.56 billion. Quest n…
April 2, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
In the past four weeks, Genova Diagnostics, Inc. of Asheville, North Carolina, has acquired two laboratories. First was the purchase of Individual Well- being Diagnostic Laboratory, Ltd. (IWDL), located near London, England. The purchase was announced on February 28….
March 12, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It’s the first opportunity to see how a New York-area laboratory is doing at grabbing UnitedHealth business. Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI) of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, announced earnings for its first quarter (ending on January 31) in its 2007 fiscal year…
February 19, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Recently Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is closed that it was planning to acquire laboratories in other countries, particularly in South America and the Pacific Region. (See pages 5-6.) One potential acquisition candidate is Diagnósticos da América (DASA),…
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