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hospital laboratory outreach
San Diego MSA Selected For Medicare Lab Demo
CEO SUMMARY: Earlier this month, CMS revealed its selection of the first of two sites for the Medicare Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project for Laboratory Testing Services. It will be the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos MSA (metropolitan statistical area). An assessment of this MSA rev…
Docs Want EMRs to Match Lab Orders and Results
CEO SUMMARY: At a national EMR users meeting, physicians indicated a growing interest in having their EMRs do more than electronically accept lab test results. On the want list are direct electronic ordering of lab tests and automatic matching of lab test orders and lab test results. Phys…
EMR Links as Labs’ Next Competitive Advantage
WE ARE CAREFULLY TRACKING THE ACCEPTANCE AND USE of electronic medical record (EMR) systems by office-based physicians. It is an important trend, one that is both an opportunity and a threat for regional laboratories. As you will read on pages 3-6, once physicians install and begin to use EMR in the…
Competing Against Regional Laboratories
SINCE THE 1980S, THERE HAS BEEN COMPETITIVE TENSION between publicly traded laboratory companies and their regional counterparts—both independent labs and hospital laboratory outreach programs. It’s an understatement to say that both sectors of the laboratory community often wish the other was no…
Recognizing Laboratory Leadership
WHEN LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA CLOSES ON THE SALE and becomes the owner of DSI Laboratories, Inc., of Fort Meyers, Florida, it will mark the end of one of the nation’s oldest hospital laboratory outreach programs. I consider this to be a good news/bad news…
LabCorp Buys Hospital Outreach Lab in Florida
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, a national laboratory has seized the opportunity to acquire a strong regional laboratory. This time it’s the sale of DSI Laboratories, Inc., of Naples, Florida, to Laboratory Corporation of America. DSI’s owner is NCH Healthcare System, which owns two hospital…
DSI Sale Shows Value of Lab Outreach Program
CEO SUMMARY: For other hospital laboratory outreach programs, the pending sale of DSI Laboratories, Inc., of Fort Meyers, Florida, to Laboratory Corporation of America provides useful insights about the market value of these programs. Applying general formulas for determining a sales pric…
Community Hospital Builds Thriving Lab Outreach Program
CEO SUMMARY: When 330-bed Botsford Hospital of Farmington Hills, Michigan, got interested in laboratory outreach 10 years ago, it brought in a new laboratory leader, invested in new analyzers and informatics, and then let the quality of the operation attract new business from the communit…
New Technologies Bring New Issues for Pathologists
TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS ARE MOVING through the lab industry like a buzz saw through balsa. Three briefings in this issue provide examples. In two briefings, we address the topic of false positive results generated in part because of innovations in molecular testing. In the third briefing, we expla…
LIS As Productivity Tool Throughout the Laboratory
CEO SUMMARY: Is the classic laboratory information system (LIS) morphing into a different information technology product? That’s the observation of one laboratory IT expert, who says that “best of breed” LIS products are becoming productivity tools that support improved clinical per…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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