Late Breaking Lab News
November 16, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
Roper Industries, the owner of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., acquired two more lab informatics companies. On October 26, it announced a definitive agreement to purchase A…
October 26, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
Describing “nutritional chemistry and food safety as an exciting growth opportunity,†CEO David King of Laboratory Corporation of America announced his company’s recent acquisition of International Food Network and The National Food Laboratory. Terms of the deal were not announced. Some analys…
October 5, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
More venture capital money is moving into the medical laboratory industry in India. In September, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd of Mumbai, India, disclosed that Carlyle, a private equity company, had purchased a 36.5% ownership interest in the lab company. In April, Warburg Pincus …
September 14, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
There is a new national group that has the goal of addressing diagnostic errors in medicine. It is called the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis and became opera- tional last month. The new group was organized by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). Eleven organizations are …
August 24, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
California is always in the forefront of states doing innovative things. It announced a public-private effort to develop a clinical laboratory assay that “will enable detection of all known pathogens with a single DNA sequencing test, to diagnose acute infections in hospitalized patients.†Fundin…
August 3, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
Cerner Corporation is celebrating a big summer of contract awards from the Department of Defense. First up was a project to support further standardization of anatomic pathology within the laboratories operated worldwide by the DoD. Early in July, it was announced t…
July 13, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
In a milestone for advocates of digital pathology, n anatomic pathology laboratory in The Netherlands has been identified as the first in the world to “transition completely to digital diagnosis.” The laboratory is Laboratorium Pathologie Oost-Nederland (LabPON), located in Hengelo. In a pres…
June 22, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
Turf wars are breaking out among local pathology groups as consolidation involving hospitals and physicians’ practices continues to reshape many regional healthcare markets. The latest sign of this trend comes from Washington State, where CellNetix of Seattle announced an agreement to provide …
June 1, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
It’s a laboratory acquisition that is worth US$1.3 billion. In Europe, Cinven, a pri ate equity company, will acquire Labco SA of Paris, France. Labco operates medical laboratories in France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. It reports annual revenue of US$714 mi…
May 11, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 15 – November 9, 1998 Issue
Last month, TriCore Reference Laboratories of Albuquerque, New Mexico, announced that it had purchased the Rhodes Group, of Vernon, Connecticut. Rhodes Group provides data integration services for labs and other healthcare providers. TriCore had long been a customer of Rhodes Group. Tr…
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