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Pathologist-Entrepreneurs Offer New Lab Automation
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 11 – August 14, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since October 2003, the core laboratory of Detroit Medical Center University Laboratories has operated with a home-grown total laboratory automation (TLA) system. The 100-foot automated line currently connects to 11 instruments and the hardware cost only $200,000 to build and…
“April 5, 2004 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 5 – April 5, 2004 Issue
There’s a new national lab company ready to compete. This week American Esoterix Laboratories, Inc. (AEL) announced it was open and ready for business. Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, it has already completed two lab acquisitions (ThromboCare Laboratories and …
Path Trends For 2002 Show Future Direction
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 1 – January 7, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as pressures to squeeze costs and consolidate within the pathology profession ease, a different set of market trends is exerting influence. Collectively, these trends portend the end of the small pathology group’s dominance of its local healthcare marketplace. It will …
Northwestern Hospital Laboratory Supports Reduced Infection Rate
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 11 – August 13, 2001 Issue
THIS MONTH, ONE OF THE NATION’S most unique and effective nosocomial infection programs completes its seventh year of operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. This one-of-a-kind infection control effort is organized around the laboratory—specifically, in-house mo…
“March 6, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 4 – March 6, 2000 Issue
Interesting things are afoot at Esoterix, Inc., the Austin, Texas-based parent company for six specialty laboratories. President and CEO Charles L Dufesche, M.D. recently left. The new CEO is James McClintic. Esoterix has plans to become a public company and has been shopping its IPO…
“August 9, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 11 – August 9, 1999 Issue
Contrast the double digit premium increases demanded by HMOs for 1999 and 2000 with the recent Medicare announcement. Medicare will add 1.1% to hospital payments for overnight stays as this year’s inflation adjustment. With annual inflation under 2%, it certainly causes one to wonder what HMOs real…
“June 7, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 8 – June 7, 1999 Issue
Another laboratorian has caught entrepreneur’s fever. Paul Gotcher accepted a position in April as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Advanced Pathology Systems, Inc. (PSI) of San Francisco. PSI is a start-up company developing enhanced microscopy techniques. Gotcher was mos…
Movers & Shakers For ’99 Demonstrate Leadership
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 4 – March 15, 1999 Issue
EACH YEAR IT BECOMES more difficult to make final selections for our annual Movers & Shakers awards. The reason is simple. Today there are more examples of leadership in the laboratory than when we first started these selections three years ago. This is a good omen. It means that the crucible of…
Successful Laboratories Share Winning Methods
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 3 – February 22, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Leading laboratory organizations from three countries will take the podium at the EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE in New Orleans on May 11-12, 1999. Their objective: to share up-to-date information on effective laboratory management strategies and methods used to deal with the challeng…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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