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March 30, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 5 – March 30, 2015 Issue
Last Friday, at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, members of the health systems’s authority board were given tours of the new $63.4 million clinical laboratory facility. It is scheduled to open on May 4 and will feature the latest state-of-the art analyzers and lab automation system…
Hospitals Recognize Need for Uniform Lab Test Data
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 12 – September 9, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals may soon insist that payers allow their in-house labs to provide outpatient testing regardless of exclusive managed care contracts with national lab companies. The migration to accountable care organizations (ACOs) and medical homes makes it essential that physician…
Standard Bar Code Labels Can Reduce Lab Errors
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 6 – May 6, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Standardization of bar code labels is a concept whose time has come. After implementing CLSI standard AUTO12-A, first-mover clinical labs report fewer specimen identification errors, a reduction of costs associated with specimen handling errors, and a boost in lab productivit…
Cerner Acquires Lab Automation Company
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XX No. 4 – March 25, 2013 Issue
BY NOW, MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THE NEWS that Cerner Corporation has acquired Labotix, Inc., the laboratory automation company based in Peterborough, Ontario. That transaction was announced last Monday, March 18. I consider this deal notable because it is an example …
Seven Deadly Sins of Lab Management Are Much Too Common
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 5 – April 11, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pity the poor laboratory manager of today. Lab budgets are shrinking. It is difficult to staff adequate numbers of skilled medical technologists. Baby boomers are now retiring. At the same time, accreditation and licensure inspections are becoming tougher. Recently, …
Spate of Lab Informatics Deals Signals Greater Investor Interest
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 15 – October 25, 2010 Issue
DURING OCTOBER, three laboratory informatics companies were acquired or obtained new capital funding. It is an indication of the growing importance that laboratory informatics will play as healthcare moves toward the goal of the universal patient health record (EHR). The first of the three transacti…
2.3% Medical Device Tax Hits Clinical Labs in 2013
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 5 – March 29, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One aspect of the massive new health bill is that medical device companies will pay a 2.3% tax, effective January 1, 2013. Students of economics know that it is customers who invariably end up paying such direct taxes. Thus, clinical laboratories in the United States should p…
Preparing for New Lab Role In Personalized Medicine
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 8, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory medicine is about to find itself between the two jaws of a powerful vise. One jaw is pending major legislative overhaul of the entire healthcare system, along with dwindling reimbursement as Medicare and Medicaid runs out of money. The other jaw is personalized med…
“Liked the Product–Bought the Company,” BD Acquires HandyLab and Jaguar System
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 16 – November 23, 2009 Issue
IT WAS 1979 WHEN VICTOR KIAM jump-started sales of Remington electric razors with his classic, witty ad campaign, “I liked the product so much, I bought the company!” Now the same thing is happening with a benchtop-sized automated system for molecular PCR testing. In this case, it is Bec…
Phlebotomy Automation Likely To Be Next Trend
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 13 – September 29, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a prediction that automation of work processes for phlebotomy, specimen collection, and specimen transport may be the next trend. Unfolding developments in the United States are creating a situation parallel to what was seen in Japanese hospital laboratories more tha…
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