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“October 11, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Here’s a hats-off to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (OCD). At a time when everything in the healthcare system seems to be taking things away from clinical laboratories, OCD has organized a worthwhile laboratory management best practices day for its most loyal customers. Started four years ago, this unique event is championed and nurtured by James Ellis, OCD’s …

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Lab Venture in Houston To Include a New Partner

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: For months, lab industry rumors said the Memorial-Hermann merger had killed the Dynacare-Hermann Hospital laboratory joint venture, despite its sustained profitability. Now comes news that the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and Dynacare will expand the laboratory joint venture. It demonstrates that the economics of a successful laboratory joint venture can be compelling. MANY …

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Revamped Houston JV Validates Industry Trend

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Change is notoriously slow in both the hospital and the clinical laboratory industry. The announcement of a revamped laboratory joint venture between Houston’s Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and Dynacare demonstrates that market pressures continue to encourage the rationalization of laboratory services. It doesn’t hurt that this joint venture also expects to post healthy …

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UroCor, Unilab, AmeriPath, MedPartners, Epitope

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

UROCOR INKS PACT TO MATCH DIAGNOSTICS WITH THERAPEUTICS HERE’S A PIONEERING EFFORT to more closely link diagnostics and therapeutics into a single product package. UroCor, Inc. and Mallinckrodt, Inc. signed an agreement that allows Mallinckrodt to sell and distribute UroCor’s new radiation treatment for prostate cancer. UroCor’s product, ProstaSeed I-125, is a radioactive pellet used …

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Pap Smear Marketplace Shifting into High Gear

Laboratory Equipment / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: It took just four years to shake out the weakest competitors in the emerging field of automated cytology. Now only TriPath Imaging, Inc. and Cytyc Corporation remain in competition. Indications are that this will be a nasty battle. Pathologists and lab executives contemplating the purchase of either company’s Pap smear products can expect …

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California’s Physicians Face Financial Meltdown

Managed Care Contracts / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: It’s a what-if scenario that may come true. Healthcare providers in the Golden State are going broke at an astounding rate. Physicians seem to be the hardest hit, but signs indicate that hospitals are also heading toward serious financial difficulties. In a nutshell, a decade of draconian cutbacks to provider reimbursement have left …

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Capitated Contracts Losing Favor Within the Hospital Industry

The Dark Report / By Robert Michel

IT APPEARS THAT AN INCREASING number of hospitals in mature managed care markets like California and Colorado are rejecting capitated managed care contracts. If future events verify this trend, the experience of hospitals may demonstrate a way for clinical laboratories to reject capitated arrangements for laboratory testing in favor of other types of agreements. California …

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Hardball and Lowball in the Lab Industry

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

CLIENTS OF THE DARK REPORT and attendees at our annual Executive War College know that we are advocates for tough competition, excellence in management, and integrity in service. After all, isn’t it true that the companies many Americans annually recognize as the most respected are known for these three qualities? Certainly the recent examples of …

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“September 20, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Here’s an interesting company to keep an eye on. Abaton.com, based in Minneapolis, is one of the early entrants in the race to offer web-based clinical network solutions at the point of care. Centrex Clinical Laboratories, Inc. of Utica, New York is purchasing Abaton.com’s product for lab test ordering and reporting. Called ClinLabs.com, the product …

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Bi-Coastal Powerhouse Formed by Lab Merger

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Changes to healthcare continue to stimulate responses from independent commercial laboratories. This time it’s a merger of Las Vegas-based Associated Pathologists Laboratories with American Medical Laboratories of Chantilly, Virginia. This combination creates the third-largest commercial laboratory organization in the United States and shows that size is still important. CONSOLIDATION OPPORTUNITIES continue to fuel …

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