Benchmarking with the Best To Be a World Class Laboratory

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 5 – March 30, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This fourth installment of this special series about the laboratory value pyramid introduces “Level Four: Use Benchmarks to Achieve Best-in-Class.” This is the highest level of the four level pyramid. When a lab organization performs at this level, it will be deliver…

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Most Colorado Labs Now Connected to State’s HIE

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 15 – November 11, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: One trend getting little publicity is that of health information exchanges (HIEs). Since its founding in 2009, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has grown steadily. Today, most of the state’s independent lab companies and hospital laboratories a…

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Boosting the Lab’s Role in Collaborative Care

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 1 – January 22, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Collaborative care is an essential element of accountable care organizations (ACO) and other emerging models of integrated clinical care. At MedCentral Health System, one clinical chemist has held a key place on the physician team that develops order sets and clinical alerts….

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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. …

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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…

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Office-Based Physicians Want In-Clinic Laboratories

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XVIII No. 6 – May 2, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Interest by office-based physicians in creating an in-clinic medical testing laboratory is on the increase. This has direct consequences for independent commercial labs, hospital lab outreach programs, and anatomic pathology groups, since office- based physicians are…

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InCyte Pathology Buys DSM Lab in Walla Walla

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 5 – April 11, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For the nation’s thousands of private pathology group practices, consolidation is now a growing trend. The latest example is last week’s acquisition of the three-pathologist practice known as the Davis-Sameh-Meeker Laboratory in Walla Walla, Washington, by InCyte…

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PAML to Enter Kentucky With New Laboratory JV

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 21, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This latest laboratory joint venture, in partnership with Saint Joseph Health System, gives Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories, LLC (PAML), a solid presence in Kentucky’s laboratory testing marketplace. Over the past 10 years, PAML, which is based in the Pac…

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Pathology Group Establishes Lab Test Exchange Networks

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 21, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: After several decades of steadfastly maintaining their independence from other pathology groups in their community, progressive hospital-based pathology groups are beginning to create regional laboratory testing networks. These collaborations generally start small an…

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Putting Centrifuges Into Courier Cars For Mobile Processing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 2 – February 7, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To improve the quality of lab services it provides to more than 300 skilled nursing facilities (SNF) while reducing costs, MuirLab of Concord, California, has created a “mobile specimen processing” solution. It operates a fleet of courier cars with centr…

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