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Market Demand for Pathologists Shifts Toward Specialization
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 15 – November 10, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Unlike the slack employment market for pathologists seen during the 1990s, there is strong demand for pathologists in this decade. Private pathology group practices now face competition for the best pathology talent. That’s because public lab companies are regularly in the …
Brazil’s Lab Industry Gathers in Rio de Janeiro
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 13 – September 29, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare in Brazil remains a free market and thousands of clinical laboratories exist to fill the demand. However, there are early indications that commercial laboratories in Brazil may be on the verge of the same tidal wave of lab acquisitions and consolidation that was ex…
LabCorp’s MacMahon Provides Insights About Lab Marketplace
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 5 – April 14, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists will be particularly interested in what Thomas MacMahon has to say about the evolution of laboratory medicine. As Chairman, President, and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, he has continuous access to some of the best strategic analysis about the…
“February 10, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 2 – February 10, 2003 Issue
IMPATH, Inc. has replaced its long-time Chairman and CEO in the wake of a scandal involving expense accounts. The resignation of Anu D. Saad, Ph.D., was accepted and became effective today. In her place, IMPATH named Carter H. Eckert, an existing Director, as the new Chairman and CEO…
New Trends in 2003 Affect Clinical Lab Services
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 1 – January 20, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s our current list of macro trends that affect clinical laboratories, updated from the last list in January 2000. One bold prediction is that Medicare, as we know it, is on the verge of a major meltdown. Employers and consumers are also new forces to be reckoned with b…
Major Changes at Dade Behring Soon to Be Visible In Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 15 – October 28, 2002 Issue
Its recent financial restructuring now complete, Dade Behring prepares a “brand building” campaign CEO SUMMARY: Dade Behring is poised to become a tough and high-profile competitor in the laboratory diagnostics marketplace. Earlier this month,…
Unfolding Events at Unilab, Specialty Labs and Dynacare
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 11 – August 5, 2002 Issue
RECENT WEEKS BROUGHT important developments to several public lab companies. Each development changes and alters the competitive marketplace for laboratory testing services. It was big news at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. when the troubled lab company signed a Plan of Correction (PO…
Military Labs Creating Global Lab Test Data Pool With LOINC
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 9 – June 24, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a laboratory regionalization project without precedent because of its worldwide scale. Within the Armed Forces, laboratorians are working to seamlessly integrate laboratory test data generated by laboratories within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Veterans Administratio…
Myriad Genetics, LabCorp, Abbott Labs, OraSure,TheraSense
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 9 – June 24, 2002 Issue
DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADS FROM MYRIAD GENETICS TO START THIS FALL FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE of the pharmaceutical industry in using direct-to consumer advertising to build drug sales, Myriad Genetics, Inc. is about to launch an advertising campaign for its predictive genetics tests…
Marketing Approved Kits Against “Home Brews”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 9 – June 24, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In past years, it was customary for laboratories to shift away from performing or ordering “home brew” tests in favor of FDA-approved test kits as they became available. However, new marketing models for diagnostic testing are shifting this long-standing practice. HIV res…
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