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Volume XV No. 15 - November 10, 2008

Growth Conundrum Confronts Quest and LabCorp

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

AFTER MORE THAN TWO DECADES of buying up almost every attractive laboratory asset that came up for sale—and with few lab acquisition candidates left to buy—Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated find themselves in an interesting conundrum. As public companies, any increase in the value of their shares is directly linked to growth …

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Medi-Cal Hits Pathologist For $6.4 Million Payment

Laboratory Compliance / By

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, government health bureaucrats are overreaching in their efforts to reduce spending and collect money from any source. A California pathologist has been hit with a Medi-Cal demand for $6.4 million in repayments, simply because he served as laboratory director for two lab companies that Medi-Cal knew had closed before auditors requested …

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Cytology Lab Uses Lean to Simplify Processes

Lean Six Sigma / By

CEO SUMMARY: Like many labs today, the gynecologic cytology laboratory at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics had a pre- and post-analytical work flow with many complex steps. This work flow—heavily influenced by a legacy of previous information systems—was inefficient, contained unnecessary redundancies, and lacked systematic measures for preventing errors. That all changed when …

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LabCorp And Quest Report 3rd Quarter Financial Performance

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO Summary: In third quarter earnings reports, both national lab companies posted modest gains in specimen volume, revenue, and net profit. More telling is the relative quiet in the current market for lab testing services. With no obvious opportunities to fuel double-digit rates of growth, the two blood brothers are pushing forward with similar business …

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Massachusetts CPOE, MountainStar, PAML, HCA, Ogden Regional Medical Center, HIPAA 5010, LabCorp, Mubadala Health, KLAS

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

MASSACHUSETTS LAW MANDATES CPOE USE BY HOSPITALS IN 2012 EARLIER THIS YEAR, Massachusetts passed a law that requires all hospitals in the state to implement CPOE (computerized physician order entry) by 2012. The same law requires all hospitals in the state to adopt electronic medical record (EMR) systems by 2015. There are 73 acute care …

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November 10, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By

In this country, medical tourism is generally understood to mean someone traveling to a foreign country to access less expensive healthcare. But a handful of U.S. hospitals are ready to make domestic medical tourism a paying proposition—and boost their occupancy rates at the same time. Earlier this year, Maine-based grocery company Hannaford Brothers announced that …

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