Late Breaking Lab News
“November 9, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
HBO & Co. is the latest to fall victim to consolidation mania. McKesson, Inc. is purchasing HBO for $14 billion in stock. McKesson wants to complement its services as a pharmacy benefits manager with HBO’s extensive health information system capabilities. Combined,…
“October 19, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Specialty Laboratories continues to make inroads as a national reference laboratory. Amerinet selected Specialty as a clinical laboratory service provider. It joins LabCorp and Quest on Amerinet’s laboratory provider panel. Special…
“September 28, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Just days ago, Bayer AG announced one of the largest drug-discovery alliances ever created. Bayer will pay Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $465 million. In return, over a six-year period, Millennium will use genomics techniques to identify cures for various diseases…
September 8, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
If any one individual was to be credited with creating the modern commercial laboratory organization, it would be Paul Brown, M.D., founder and former Chairman of MetPath, Inc. (now Quest Diagnostics Incorporated). Where is he now? For ten years, he served as a Direc…
“August 17, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
THE DARK REPORT wants to thank those companies at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry convention in Chicago who invited us to special business briefings and other functions. It was an opportunity to meet both executives and the innovative customers of these companies who a…
“July 6, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last week THE DARK REPORT toured the Framingham, Massachusetts laboratory of Genzyme Genetics, the diagnostic testing division of Genzyme Corporation. It is probably the largest genetics-based diagnostics laboratory organization in the United States. The company’s …
“June 15, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Clinical laboratories continue to find their customers undergoing major consolidation. This time it involves two giants in long term care Health Care Corporation of Toledo, Ohio and Manor Care Inc. of Gaithersburg, Maryland are merging. The combined company will operate 292 long term…
“May 26, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Another pathologybased PPM received venture capital funding. Pathology Consultants of America, (PCA) based in Nashville, Tennessee, just closed a $16 million deal with two venture capitalists. ABS Capital Partners of Baltimore invested $15 million. An affiliate of …
“May 4, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Sales and marketing of laboratory services to physician offices is still feasible and cost-effective… if the effort is professionally managed and supported. Recently THE DARK REPORT was invited to speak at the national sales meeting of a public laboratory. Awards for 1997 sales production demonstra…
“April 13, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last Thursday was the 20th Annual Conference of the Biomedical Marketing Association (BMA). Held in Baltimore, it brought together the marketing and sales executives from diagnostics companies all over the United States. The program focused on changes to how hospitals and laboratorie…
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