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Securing your Lab’s Success as Healthcare Reforms
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIX No. 5 – April 2, 2012 Issue
IT IS PROBABLY SAFE TO ASSUME THAT MOST OF YOU RECOGNIZE that the American healthcare system is about to undergo its most extensive transformation of the past 50 years. For better or for worse, we are about to see the end of medicine dominated by fee-for-service reimbursement and a fragmented deliver…
Today’s Lab Test Model Won’t Survive Reforms
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 4 – March 12, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For more than three decades, independent lab companies have waxed fat by increasing their respective market share of lab test referrals from office-based physicians. This era is poised to end as growing numbers of office-based physicians begin to practice medicine within an a…
From Modest Beginnings, Two Lab Networks Find Success
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 2 – January 30, 2012 Issue
“For 20 years, our regional laboratory network here in Detroit has played an important role in helping member …
Integration of Clinical Care and the Lab Industry
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIX No. 1 – January 9, 2012 Issue
DURING 2012, THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES will make measurable progress toward the goal of integrated clinical care. In my view, this will be a positive development for clinical laboratories, since it creates opportunities for labs to step up and add value to physicians, patients, and p…
2011’s Top 10 Lab Stories Point to a Busy 2012
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 1 – January 9, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Given the specific news stories that make up THE DARK REPORT’S list of the “Top Ten Lab Stories for 2011,” it might be said that 2011 was a rather quiet year overshadowed by anticipation of the coming reforms mandated by the Accountable Care Act of 2010. For the clinica…
January 9, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 1 – January 9, 2012 Issue
China-based Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc. (Kindstar), of Wuhan, Hubei Province, entered into an agreement to acquire and use the web-based anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS) developed and sold by PathCentral, Inc., of Irvine, California. …
Considering Full versus Partial Adoption of Digital Pathology
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 17 – December 19, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Digital pathology is considered to be one of the more disruptive technologies now finding acceptance in anatomic pathology. Since founding Aperio Technologies, Inc., of Vista, California, in 1999, President Dirk G. Soenksen, M.S., M.B.A., has been in the forefront of this imp…
Clin Lab Partners’ Strategy Is to Leverage Lab Data
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 15 – November 7, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: At Clinical Laboratory Partners, the strategy is to create and deliver a growing suite of enhanced lab information services to client physicians and payers in the Connecticut market. It wants to differentiate itself from competing lab companies by packaging lab test …
At Kaiser Permanente, Real-Time Lab Results Are a Hit with Patients
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 15 – November 7, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Should patients be allowed to see their own lab test results when they are available to their physicians? Kaiser Permanente believes so. Since 2005, Kaiser Permanente has given members real-time access to most laboratory test results in their personal health record (PHR) on w…
Hospital Lab Uses HIE To Win Outreach Clients
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 14 – October 17, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Health information exchanges (HIEs) are operating nationwide, but few handle lab test orders and results with ease the way HealthBridge does. This long-established HIE in Cincinnati, Ohio, allows physicians to send lab test orders from their electronic health record …
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