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Kaiser Plans Widespread Use For Pap Technology
WITHIN THE HMO INDUSTRY, Kaiser Permanente is highly respected for its thorough research into the clinical efficacy and economic cost of new healthcare technologies. That is the reason why Kaiser’s decision to adopt NeoPath, Inc.’s automated cytology technology…
Bankruptcy Court Okays Unilab’s Offer For Meris
CEO SUMMARY: Meris Laboratories, Inc. is now history. California’s intense competitive market pushed the company into bankruptcy and eventual sale to Unilab, Inc. Even as Unilab moves to consolidate and integrate Meris’ clients and operations into its system, attention is focusing on …
Washington State’s PacLab Network Is A Regional Winner
CEO SUMMARY: As a regional laboratory network, PacLab is unusual in one respect: participating hospital laboratories did not meet endlessly to talk about what they should do. Instead, action was the operative word for these network organizers. Since becoming operational in 1996, their bia…
Consolidation: Threat Or Opportunity
IS CONSOLIDATION GOOD OR BAD FOR OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM? I don’t know if any of us could accurately answer that question. For better or for worse, big corporations will continue to buy up the little guys. I do feel confident in predicting that ongoing consolidation will occur in all areas of health…
Curse Of Consolidation Plagues Health Providers
WITHOUT QUESTION, today’s healthcare world is dominated by a single obvious trend: consolidation. The consequences of consolidation affect every segment of healthcare in the United States. The commercial laboratory industry had the dubious distinction of being the first major segment of healthcare…
Unilab’s Bid To Buy Meris Will Shake Up California
CEO SUMMARY: More laboratory overcapacity may be removed from the California marketplace if Unilab purchases Meris Laboratories. Unilab’s offer to buy Meris must be cleared by the bankruptcy court and other bidders may surface during the coming weeks. These events are a reminder that fi…
Veterans Administration Network Restructures Using Partnering, Telepathology
CEO SUMMARY: Economic pressures are forcing even the traditional and staid Veterans Administration to extensively reconfigure its laboratory services. At this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans, participants learned how one eight-hospi…
Problems In PPM lndustry Affect Pathology Practices
DURING 1998, THE FINANCIAL WOES of many physician practice management (PPM) companies caught healthcare experts, investors, and financial experts by surprise. Problems with the PPM industry could not come at a worse time for the pathology profession. At the very moment that several pathology-based P…
September 8, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
If any one individual was to be credited with creating the modern commercial laboratory organization, it would be Paul Brown, M.D., founder and former Chairman of MetPath, Inc. (now Quest Diagnostics Incorporated). Where is he now? For ten years, he served as a Direc…
“Corporatized” Healthcare Encountering Big Losses
CEO SUMMARY: When the clinical laboratory industry found itself losing hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years, few people imagined that billion-dollar HMO and PPM companies would soon experience similar losses. Current trends in the managed care marketplace indicate that problems…
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