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dermatopathology
AmeriPath Will Acquire Specialty Laboratories
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a surprise to most lab industry observers. AmeriPath, a company built around 400 anatomic pathologists working mostly in community hospitals, is acquiring a national reference/esoteric testing company. However, this deal may be better understood by looking at the motiv…
Pinkus DermPath Earns ISO-9000 Certification
CEO SUMMARY: After learning about quality management systems at a recent Executive War College, the lab director at Pinkus Dermatopathology recognized how such techniques could be used in his lab to improve quality, reduce errors, and create a better working environment for both pathologi…
Market Demand for Pathologists Shifts Toward Specialization
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 …
Ken Freeman Discusses Plans to Integrate AML and Unilab
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Ken Freeman and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is altering the national market for clinical laboratory testing. By acquiring American Medical Laboratories and Unilab, the nation’s largest lab company is expanding its presence in California, Nevada, and Washingto…
“January 7, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Here’s an early conjunction of: 1) consumer demand for sophisticated healthcare services; 2) healthcare ecommerce, and 3) telemedicine. In Cleveland and Boston, major health systems have introduced a Web-based “second opinions” service. In the case of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation…
Analysis of Lab Testing Market Reveals Competitive Shifts
CEO SUMMARY: Even as public lab and anatomic pathology companies enjoy sustained growth in specimen volumes and revenues, fundamental shifts in the basic marketplace have changed the competitive environment. Surprisingly, the most open market segment is anatomic pathology specimens referr…
AmeriPath & InformDX Merging To Form Largest Anatomic Pathology Firm in U.S.
CEO SUMMARY: AmeriPath and InformDX shared several common elements in their respective business strategies. Both companies believe that pathology services are best delivered at the local level and benefit from the support of a national organization. Both companies believe that physicians …
AmeriPath Pursues Ambitious Strategy Of Rapid Expansion
CEO SUMMARY: As the pathology profession’s only publicly-traded physician practice management company, AmeriPath is the spear point of far-reaching changes now transforming pathology. With an annual revenue run rate of $270 million and an ample war chest of growth capital, AmeriPath int…
Pathology Profession Facing New Directions
CEO SUMMARY: Big changes ahead during the next decade. Among the predictions: the number of two and three-pathologist group practices will radically diminish; pathology centers of excellence will achieve new market dominance; and…ever more intense competition for anatomic pathology spec…
Individual Pathologist “Branding” Promoted by National Firms
IN THE EFFORT TO GAIN COMPETITIVE market advantage, IMPATH, Inc. of New York City publicized the recent signing of an exclusive partnership agreement involving renowned pathologist Juan Rosai, M.D., also of New York City. Dr. Rosai has a world-wide reputation for his books, book cha…
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