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“February 18, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 3 – February 18, 2002 Issue
Lab execs and pathologists should pay close attention to this fact: Internet use by Americans significantly increased again last year. The Commerce Department reported that. as of September, 143 million people in the U.S. were using the Internet. This is 54% of the population and rep…
Laboratories Worth Watching With Stories as Yet Untold
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 17 – December 17, 2001 Issue
BURIED IN MY FILES are any number of magnificent examples of innovative laboratory and pathology management that have yet to reach print in THE DARK REPORT. The limitation is space, influenced by the need to report on important breaking news. THE DARK REPORT is, by design, a compact and fast-to-read…
Roche, Digene, Centrex, Labtest.com, Specialty Labs, Tripath Imaging
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. #15 – November 5, 2001 Issue
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS POSITIONED TO SERVE PUBLIC HEALTH LABS HEIGHTENED CONCERNS over bioterrorist attacks have accelerated plans within the public health lab sector to acquire state-of-the art diagnostic technology in DNA typing and enzyme immunoassay. Roche Diagnostics has in…
Bigger Labs Have Always Coveted Hospital Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 6 – April 30, 2001 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For almost two decades, the nation’s largest laboratory companies have, for all intents and purposes, been “locked out” of the market of hospital inpatient lab testing. Executives at commercial labs have long viewed hospital inpatient lab testing as an untapped market. …
Market Changes Lead LabCorp To Follow New Strategic Direction
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 4 – March 19, 2001 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: When formed in 1995, Laboratory Corporation of America faced a financially-hostile marketplace for lab testing services. However, strategic planning retreats in 1997 and 1999 were pivotal in redirecting this billion-dollar lab behemoth toward financial stability. During 2000,…
New Products for Lab Test Reporting
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 3 – February 26, 2001 Issue
Editor’s Introduction: Although the movement to shift lab test results reporting to the Web is still in its earliest stages, a growing number of laboratories are actively preparing to offer this service to their physician-clients. In response to the demand for solutions to permit lab tes…
“February 26, 2001 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 3 – February 26, 2001 Issue
Multiplex testing on a single specimen is getting ever closer to the clinical marketplace. On February 19, LINCO Research, Inc. and Luminex Corporation announced an agreement that calls for LINCO to develop, manufacture, and market multianalyte immunoassay kits using…
Atlas Development, Labtest.com, Bio-Reference Labs, Cytyc, TriPath Imaging
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 2 – February 5, 2001 Issue
EARLY ADOPTERS OFFER WEB-ENABLED LAB TEST REPORTING TO DOCTORS THERE’S A GROWING NUMBER of clinical laboratories which now provide Web-enabled lab test reporting to their physician-clients. Dynacare, Inc. is in the first phase of a national roll-out of Web-enabled lab tes…
Specialty Labs Prepares For Public Stock Offering
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 14 – October 2, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Stock prices for public lab companies zoomed upwards through 2000. For this reason, executives at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. believe it is an auspicious time for their laboratory to bring an initial public offering (IPO) to market. Company officials recently filed a stock r…
Bill Bonello Sees Opportunities In Diagnostic Services Companies
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 14 – October 2, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the clinical laboratory industry now enjoying growing interest by professional investors, THE DARK REPORT traveled to New York City to meet with financial analyst William B. Bonello, of U S Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Bonello co-authored a just-released overview of what he ca…
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