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CARESIDE POC Solution in entirety, the traditional way of performing tests in the To Alter Lab Organization
CEO SUMMARY: CARESIDEās 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…
New Internet Companies Target Clinical Lab Services
CEO SUMMARY: During the coming transition from proprietary PC-based to web-based lab test ordering/reporting systems, it will be Internet start-up companies that have the competitive jump over traditional LIS vendors. There are many reasons why this is true. Here is a first look at the ma…
Big Challenges For Clinical Laboratories
AS YOU WILL READ IN THIS ISSUE, IT IS A REMARKABLE PREDICTION. Our editor states that, in only 24 months, virtually every physicians office in the United States will be connected to its laboratory providers through a web-based arrangement. In my decades of watching the clinical laboratory industry, …
Improved 3rd Quarter Performance Posted By National Laboratories
Third quarter financial performance at all three national laboratories improved over the same period of 1997. It is an important sign that the three companies are stabilizing their finances. All three national laboratories continue to emphasize cost-cutting as a major corporate priority. That is to …
Bankruptcy Court Okays Unilabās Offer For Meris
CEO SUMMARY: Meris Laboratories, Inc. is now history. Californiaās intense competitive market pushed the company into bankruptcy and eventual sale to Unilab, Inc. Even as Unilab moves to consolidate and integrate Merisā clients and operations into its system, attention is focusing on …
DIANON Shoots At Urocor, Makes Unwelcome Offer
CEO SUMMARY: It pays to know your friends. Last month DIANON Systems announced an unsolicited offer to acquire UroCor. The offer, following months of ongoing discussions between the two companies, was clearly unwelcome at UroCor. Both companies are pushing hard to evolve disease managemen…
AACC Convention Exhibits Point To New Lab Trends
CEO SUMMARY: This year the interesting trend at the AACCās exhibit hall was modular laboratory automation. Thatās a big change from the total laboratory automation solutions touted in past years. But watch out! The economics of this equipment have yet to be validated. It was also clea…
Private Consortium Plans To Decode Human Genes
CEO SUMMARY: Five years ago, the only option for mapping was to involve the government. New advancements in technology have lowered costs so radically that now private companies are willing to use their own funds to map the human genome. This brings the day ever closer when genetics-based…
Hospital Lab-Commercial Lab Partnering Is Upcoming Trend
CEO SUMMARY: At this yearās Executive War College in New Orleans, laboratory innovators convened to study hot new trends in the industry.They were surprised to learn that partnering relationships between hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories are finally gaining wider accepta…
Serendipity Or Response To Market Forces?
THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE of how marketplaceĀ developments shape what we write. After the Executive War College in New Orleans, I spoke with our Editor, Robert Michel. We discussed his impressions from the collective information of 26 presentations. We also discussed w…
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Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024
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