What’s Ahead for Labs? It’ll Be Quite Different

By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, the nation’s clinical laboratories performed magnificently in response to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak last winter. But that magnificent performance has taken its toll on the infrastructure and personnel within these labs. The Dark Report…

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Builds Strong Lab Outreach Business

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 10 – July 9, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As health networks and hospitals consider outsourcing their lab outreach programs, the lab team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (D-H) offers lessons about the value of retaining outreach. D-H is now in the eighth year of a sustained expansion of its laboratory outreach …

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September 26, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue

Molecular and genetic testing laboratories that use the Microsoft Excel software program for some of their homegrown informatics may be at risk of lab testing errors due to an auto-correct quirk in the Exel software. Modern Healthcare reported on how researchers in Australia looked at 3,600…

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December 7, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 17 – December 7, 2015 Issue

Last week, a joint laboratory accreditation agreement was announced by AABB and the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). The two associations will now collaborate to allow labs to obtain three assessments under one effort, including AABB accredit…

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May 28, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News””

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 7 – May 28, 2013 Issue

Globalization of laboratory medicine continues to move forward. Two recent examples illustrate this trend. Earlier this month, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) announced that it had entered into an agreement with the Citizens Hospital of Hyderabad, …

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Unprecedented Growth Rates for Molecular Testing

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There will be an expanding role for innovative clinical labs as healthcare moves forward on its path toward personalized medicine. However, to capitalize on this opportunity, pathology groups and clinical labs will need to beef up their information systems. They will also nee…

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October 8, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue

Definiens AG, one of the major players in the fast-growing market for digital pathology, raised $12.8 million in additional capital funding. The company, based in Munich, Germany, manufacturers systems for digital image analysis. Definiens stated that the new funds will be used for �…

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Sonic Healthcare Acquires Labs from Aussie Competitor

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 8 – June 4, 2012 Issue

LABORATORY CONSOLIDATION continues in Australia with news that Sonic Healthcare Limited of Sydney, Australia, has agreed to acquire three clinical laboratory business units from competitor Healthscope, Ltd., of Melbourne, Australia. The acquisition was announced on …

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Payers Move to Pre-Authorize Expensive Genetic Tests

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 13 – September 13, 2010 Issue

CEO Summary: Pre-authorization of expensive genetic and molecular tests is fast-becoming a priority for most of the nation’s health insurers. For clinical labs and pathology groups that don’t respond, this trend is a threat. On the other hand, because payers need all the skil…

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Did Wrong Strategy Sink Westcliff Medical Labs?

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 8 – June 1, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: All sorts of people will argue all sorts of opinions about the financial demise of BioLabs, Inc., and its subsidiary, Westcliff Medical Laboratories, Inc., and why it ended up in a California bankruptcy court. Documents filed in the case indicate that, from the birth…

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