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Labs Moving to Internet For Results Reporting

Laboratory Information Systems / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: When faced with the choice of implementing Web-accessed lab test ordering or Web-accessed results reporting, most early adopter laboratories started with results reporting. It requires much less money and effort to accomplish. Vendors recognized this fact and are introducing a variety of products that enable labs to give their physician clients Web access …

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New Products for Lab Test Reporting

Laboratory Information Systems / By Robert Michel

Editor’s Introduction: Although the movement to shift lab test results reporting to the Web is still in its earliest stages, a growing number of laboratories are actively preparing to offer this service to their physician-clients. In response to the demand for solutions to permit lab test results reporting via the Internet, new vendors have joined the …

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Web-based Test Ordering Is A “Tough Nut To Crack”

Laboratory Information Systems / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Shifting office-based physicians to Web-accessed lab test ordering proved to be a daunting task for WebMD and its early competitors. Probably the most significant discovery is that modest capabilities of existing software technology and the lack of Internet broadband connections into doctors’ offices combined to make this proposition a tough sell during the …

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“Information Therapy” Plays to Labs’ Strengths

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

IT’S TIME TO PAY ATTENTION TO A GROWING AREA OF MEDICINE loosely described as “information therapy.” It is the concept of providing consumers and patients with reliable health information without requiring face-to-face visits with physicians or other healthcare professionals. For clinical laboratories and anatomic pathologists, this is an important development. After all, information is the …

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Eight Trends Reshaping Clinical Lab Services

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, THE DARK REPORT’S annual list of lab industry trends deals less with government regulation and influence on laboratory operations and more with the impact of new technologies and new management philosophies. Marketplace acceptance of these lab industry trends is occurring swiftly. Throughout 2000, early adopter labs moved readily to respond to …

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Atlas Development, Labtest.com, Bio-Reference Labs, Cytyc, TriPath Imaging

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

EARLY ADOPTERS OFFER WEB-ENABLED LAB TEST REPORTING TO DOCTORS THERE’S A GROWING NUMBER of clinical laboratories which now provide Web-enabled lab test reporting to their physician-clients. Dynacare, Inc. is in the first phase of a national roll-out of Web-enabled lab test results reporting. Its Seattle division was first to become operational with this service. Atlas …

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“February 5, 2001 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

This time the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) looked in its own backyard to find a Executive Director. On Monday, February 12, Robert Neri will begin his responsibilities at CLMA. Not only does Neri have a long career in laboratory management, but he lives in the Philadelphia area, near CLMA’s offices in Malvern, Pennsylvania. CLMA’s …

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Lab Sales & Marketing Programs Are Changing

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Market evidence points to a shifting role in the sales priorities of the national labs. Meanwhile, regional laboratories and pathology companies are enjoying surprising success with their sales and marketing programs. These shifting patterns may indicate a new stratification in the laboratory services marketplace. It may be closely linked to managed care contracting …

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“Local” Anatomic Path Has Two Major Players

Anatomic Pathology / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: After a lot of money and much effort, the fledgling crop of companies wanting to consolidate and manage pathology group practices has narrowed into just two market leaders: AmeriPath and Pathology Service Associates. These two companies could not be more different in their goals and operating philosophies. For local pathology groups, this is …

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Consumers are Ripe, Low-hanging Fruit!

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT MY JOB as publisher emeritus of THE DARK REPORT is that I get time to think about the global implications of new developments in the laboratory industry. Unlike most of you, harried by the never-ending demands of your work day, I am at the tail end of my useful …

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