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Year’s Ten Biggest Stories Reveal Modest Changes
CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, 2000 was a relatively quiet year for laboratory organizations. This list of the ten biggest stories in the lab industry for 2000 demonstrates that the most innovative laboratory organizations in the United States are “raising the bar” for service and quality…
Honolulu Lab Pursuing Pacific Rim Business
CEO SUMMARY: With one laboratory already operating in Guam, Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc. (DLS) is poised to expand its services in the Pacific Rim area. Now a major competitor within Hawaii, DLS sees the island archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean as a natural extension of its existi…
LabCorp and CIGNA Ink New Provider Agreement
CEO SUMMARY: After four years of working with SmithKline Beecham Clinical Labs as its sole designated laboratory provider, Cigna Healthcare recently opened the door to Laboratory Corporation of America. THE DARK REPORT believes this development is first evidence that the nation’s larges…
Healtheon Already Choice Of Public Lab Companies
CEO SUMMARY: Probably no single individual has greater insight about the changes now occurring to web-based laboratory test ordering and results reporting than Healtheon Corporation’s Nancy Ham. As Vice President of Connectivity & Institutional Services, Nancy is responsible for Hea…
Investors Coming Back To Clinical Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: Wall Street money is beginning to flow back into the commercial laboratory industry. This time the beneficiary is Unilab Corporation of Tarzana, California. New York-based Kelso & Company signed an agreement to buy 93% of Unilab’s shares. The common perception among fin…
Labs Entering New Cycle Of Evolution and Change
CEO SUMMARY: As some of the nation’s most astute and forward-looking lab executives prepare to gather in New Orleans for the fourth annual EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE, it is time to share our assessment of the laboratory and pathology industry. Recent events presage another profound …
Client Service and Sales Fuel Fast Growth at AML
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s proof positive that effective management can make a positive difference in the financial performance of clinical labs. Upon taking title to American Medical Laboratories in the spring of 1997, its new owners used an emphasis on “customer-first” service and aggres…
“April 5, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
As consolidation of hospital ownership goes, so goes laboratory consolidation. The big trend driving consolidation of hospital ownership is the formation of integrated healthcare systems (IHS). According to SMG Marketing Group, a Chicago-based healthcare information and marketing com…
Three Blood Brothers Release Year-End Financial Performance
FINANCIAL REPORTS RELEASED by the three national laboratories for the fiscal year 1998 reveal a definite improvement in their financial performance and cash flow. One sign of this improvement is the fact that none of the three blood brothers disclosed any huge write-downs similar to those experience…
Movers & Shakers For ’99 Demonstrate Leadership
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…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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