Positive Patient ID System Catches Patients Cheating on Toxicology Tests

By Pamela Scherer McLeod | From the Volume XXIV No. 13 – September 18, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: The urine drug testing industry is challenged every day to detect the large number of patients trying to cheat on their drug tests. GenoTox Laboratories of Austin, Texas, developed a DNA-authentication method for urine samples that allows the lab to detect when patients have …

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Newer, Smaller Analyzers Will Bring Big Data to Labs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories of all sizes are poised to become the source of much of a hospital or health system’s “big data.” At many academic center labs, greater use of genetic and molecular testing requires that more space and more staff be devoted to data management. A…

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December 15, 2014 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 17 – December 15, 2014 Issue

In certain respects, the noted physician and healthcare strategist Eric Topol, M.D., of Scripps Healthcare in La Jolla, California, can be considered a gadfly to pathology and the laboratory medicine profession. In his latest pronouncements on patient-centered healthcare, he warned c…

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Ignoring Lab Industry, Theranos Goes Its Way

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 11 – August 11, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With each passing month, Theranos pulls open the curtain a bit more on its business structure and its market growth plans. Its clinical lab tests are now offered in Walgreens pharmacies in Palo Alto, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. Recent news coverage in Fortune and USATod…

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Pathology Across State Lines and National Borders

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVIII No. 9 – July 5, 2011 Issue

WE ARE SWIFTLY APPROACHING THE DAY when community hospital-based pathologists will be able to serve hospitals and physicians located across state lines with the same ease that they serve hospitals and office-based physicians in their own cities and regions. In the same vein, at least two major acade…

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Rapid Genome Sequencing Predicted by Mid-2009

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 14 – October 20, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In the same way that the Human Genome Project was disrupted by the entry of C. Craig Venter and Perkin-Elmer in what was then a 15-year, $3 billion project, now Complete Genetics of Mountain View, California, is disrupting the race to the $1,000 human genome sequence. Develop…

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Health Record Databanks Are Different Than RHIOs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 12 – September 8, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Forget CHINs from the 1990s and RHIOs from this decade. The future of regional health data repositories may turn out to be a patient-controlled model, often called a “Health Record Bank” (HRB). Here is the lab industry’s first look at this nascent movement. HRBs are und…

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No Disruptive Technology In Lab Industry’s Future

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 14 – October 20, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As new diagnostic technologies move through the development pipeline and into widespread clinical use, the scientific knowledge and skill sets needed by laboratory staff and management will change. The emphasis in laboratory medicine will evolve to include more molecular tech…

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Looking at Fast-Growth And Slow-Growth Areas In Diagnostic Testing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 14 – October 20, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This exclusive intelligence briefing predicts how specific new technologies may drive changes in the laboratory-testing marketplace during the next five years. The key message is that change is expected to be incremental, not disruptive—given the technology known to be in d…

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Changing Lab Industry Trends Identified at War College

By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 7 – May 21, 2001 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories and pathology group practices are beginning to respond to a new set of marketplace trends. Speaker after speaker at this EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE included new business strategies not heard in past years. Probably the most notable difference is a growing emp…

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