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1999’s Top Ten Stories Reflect Speed of Change
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 17 – December 13, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s round-up of the lab industry’s Top Ten most important stories lacks any compelling single theme. THE DARK REPORT’s conclusion? 1999 was a transition year. No new outside forces rattled the lab industry, allowing lab executives and pathologists to concentrate…
CARESIDE POC Solution in entirety, the traditional way of performing tests in the To Alter Lab Organization
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 16 – November 22, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: CARESIDE’s point-of-care testing system gives laboratory executives a new tool for bringing value-added laboratory services to clinicians. In this exclusive interview, W. Vickery Stoughton, Chairman and CEO of CARESIDE, Inc., shares his perspectives on the clinical laborato…
Palo Alto Needle Reuse Episode Widens in Scope
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 8 – June 7, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As many as 15,000 people have been offered free blood testing because they may have been drawn by this phlebotomist since 1994. Regulatory action, private lawsuits, and media coverage are subjecting laboratories to unwelcome, even unwarranted, scrutiny. As the ramifications o…
DARK REPORT Picks 1998’s Ten Biggest Lab Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 1 – January 11, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Our story picks for 1998 demonstrate a broad range of subjects. Each affects laboratories and pathology practices in significant ways and should be used to trigger appropriate management strategies. Two essential themes among this year’s ten biggest lab stories: continued d…
Unilab & LabOne Demonstrate Improved Revenues and Profits
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 7 – May 26, 1998 Issue
AFTER AN EXTENDED MULTI-YEAR financial siege, Unilab Corporation seems to be regaining its balance. First quarter financials demonstrate respectable gains in revenue and net income at the California based laboratory. Big gains were posted by LabOne, Inc. of Lenexa, …
Automated Cytology Technology To Come Into Its Own In 1998
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 2 – February 9, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMAR…
“January 27, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 2 – January 27, 1997 Issue
Persistence can pay off. After years of struggle, Epitope, Inc. of Beaverton, Oregon received a big “shot inthe arm” when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported this month on a clinical study involving Epitope’s OraSure HIV test. The study involved 3,570 patien…
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