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“July 10, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
When it comes to laboratory information services, the Internet may indeed be a competitive leveler. THE DARK REPORT is tracking a host of small software companies that already have working solutions for Web-enabled lab test ordering and results reporting installed and operating in the field. It seems…
LIS Vendors Moving to Internet
SALES OF LIS SYSTEMS SLOWED DURING 1999 due to concerns about Y2K problems. But the real story in the LIS arena was the impending arrival of technology that takes advantage of the Internet and the Web. Sales champs in THE DARK REPORT’s annual ranking of the Top Ten LIS Vendors for 1999 ar…
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…
Epitope, LabOne, CARESIDE, Quest, Structural Bioinformatics, UroCor
EPITOPE RAIDS LABONE FOR NEW PRESIDENT/CEO; READIES DRUGS OF ABUSE MARKET LAUNCH DURING THE YEAR 2000, Epitope, Inc., based in Portland, Oregon, plans to introduce a drugs of abuse test based on its patented OraSure® oral collection technology. To aid in this new product l…
“January 3, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Recent developments prove that the feds are serious about healthcare fraud and abuse! Sentencing was announced last month for the two Columbia/HCA hospital executives convicted last July 2 on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicare and other government healthcare programs. On Dece…
Pathologist Income Symposium, Healtheon, Biogenetics, Healthworks Alliance
PATHOLOGIST INCOME SYMPOSIUM DATES ARE NOVEMBER 12-13, 1999 SCOTTSDALE IS AGAIN SLATED TO HOST the upcoming private Pathologist Income Symposium, scheduled for November 12-13, 1999. This year’s symposium tackles the toughest of all topics: increasing the compensation paid by hosp…
“April 26, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Think turnover among laboratory executives and administrators is high? Get a load of this! Among CEOs at the nation’s 4,838 general, non-federal acute-care hospitals, the turnover rate was 16.9% during 1998. This was up from 12.1% in 1997. It means that one of every six hospitals got a new CEO last…
“April 5, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
As consolidation of hospital ownership goes, so goes laboratory consolidation. The big trend driving consolidation of hospital ownership is the formation of integrated healthcare systems (IHS). According to SMG Marketing Group, a Chicago-based healthcare information and marketing com…
Quest to Pay $1.27 Billion To Buy SB’s Lab Division
CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation is the story of the clinical laboratory industry during the 1990s. The decade will close out with the granddaddy laboratory consolidation of them all! When Quest Diagnostics Incorporated completes its acquisition of SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories later…
“September 28, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Just days ago, Bayer AG announced one of the largest drug-discovery alliances ever created. Bayer will pay Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $465 million. In return, over a six-year period, Millennium will use genomics techniques to identify cures for various diseases…
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