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“May 27, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Here’s an early sign that health-insurance premiums will rise by significant amounts for 2004. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index for general acute care hospitals posted its highest-ever one-month increase, jumping 1.4% in April. For the 12 months ending in April, the general acute care hospital price index was up 6.2%. By …

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Eritrea Uses St. Louis For Reference Testing

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: On one level, it’s the classic story of volunteerism and help for a developing nation. But on another level, it’s a dramatic demonstration of how new technologies allow two hospital laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri to effectively provide reference laboratory tests and related services to Eritrea, a small country located 12,000 miles from …

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Nine Key Trends Are Shaping Nation’s Healthcare Informatics

Laboratory Information Systems / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: During the 1990s, hospital spending on information technology was devoted primarily to acquiring upgraded versions of software systems for clinical services such as laboratory, pharmacy, and radiology. That’s no longer true. As the following nine key trends in healthcare informatics demonstrate, hospitals, physicians, and other types of healthcare providers are moving aggressively to …

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Specialty Laboratories, IMPATH, Roche, Abbott Laboratories, Celera Diagnostics

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

SPECIALTY LABORATORIES RESTORING STABILITY IN SPECIMEN VOLUME IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT COMPETITORS of Specialty Laboratories, Inc. have been willing to spread a variety of rumors about the laboratory company, given its well-publicized troubles with government regulators last year. Notwithstanding these rumors, the reality at Specialty Labs is quite different. On April 24, the company, based …

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Toronto Hospital Labs Cope With SARS Impact

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Canada has become one of the world’s hot spots for SARS. Concern about the unexpected number of hospital workers who contracted the disease triggered a halt to all but the most life-threatening patient care needs in many hospitals in Ontario. The manner in which this disease is transmitted is causing lab administrators in …

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LabCorp’s MacMahon Provides Insights About Lab Marketplace

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists will be particularly interested in what Thomas MacMahon has to say about the evolution of laboratory medicine. As Chairman, President, and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, he has continuous access to some of the best strategic analysis about the laboratory testing marketplace and its evolution. MacMahon has several surprising predictions …

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“April 14, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Lab executives and pathologists concerned about closed panel HMOs should closely study a recent Supreme Court decision. On April 2, the court issued a ruling that supports a state’s right to enact “any willing provider” laws. Kentucky had passed two laws requiring health plans to accept all out-of-network physicians, hospitals, laboratories, and other healthcare providers, …

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Why Patient Safety Is Change Agent for Labs

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: In the 1990s, managed care was the dominant change agent to the nation’s healthcare system. During the 2000s, it will be patient safety. However, unlike the unpleasant consequences of HMOs, capitation, and utilization risk, patient safety will prove to be a benevolent trend for physicians, hospitals, and laboratories. THROUGHOUT the American healthcare system, …

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Royal Free Hospital Is First Big British Lab Automation Project

Laboratory Automation / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: To date, only a handful of total laboratory automation (TLA) projects have been implemented in Great Britain. One of those first TLA projects is at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, located in the northern suburbs of London. Design work started in 1998 and the first phase became operational in 2000. Despite Britain’s single-payer …

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Oldest “Working” Pathologist Dies at 104 on March 9

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

WORKING EIGHT-HOUR DAYS until a few weeks before his death on March 9, pathologist F. William Sunderman, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., lived a remarkable life. During his 104-year life, Dr. Sunderman played a key role in founding the Pennsylvania Association of Clinical Pathologists in 1946 and is credited with developing one of the earliest proficiency testing …

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