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Four Health Systems Launch ‘Longitude Health’
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For the second time in the past 16 months, respected health systems have taken steps to collaborate specifically to advance value-based care. Longitude Health joins Risant Health as the newest attempt to bring together different health systems and foster collaboration and inn…
Year’s Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic now in the rearview mirror of the nation’s clinical labs and pathology groups, the important news stories of 2023 were mostly about developments where the consequences will influence laboratory operations in coming years. Artificial intelligence…
Hospitals, Pharmacies Struggle to Be Profitable
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pharmaceutical companies may be posting strong growth in revenue and profits. But that’s not true for the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chains. Rite Aid’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing earlier this month put a spotlight on financial stress at all the retail pharmacy c…
Kaiser Acquires Geisinger Health in Value-Based Deal
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This blockbuster combination of two respected integrated delivery networks (IDNs) caught the hospital industry by surprise. Post-closing, Kaiser and Geisinger will have combined revenue…
Kaiser-Geisinger Acquisition Sets Stage for More Deals
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as experts were predicting more consolidation among multi-hospital health systems at the Executive War College in New Orleans last month, acquisition of Geisinger Health by Kaiser …
U.S. Hospitals Will Lose Billions of Dollars in 2022
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 15 – October 31, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals and health systems in most regions of the United States are reporting substantial losses, both in patient care and in the value of their investment portfolios. This is inauspicious for the clinical laboratories operated by these hospitals. Hospital-bas…
PathAI Buys Poplar Health, Creates Unique Company
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 12 – September 7, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists were surprised this summer when a company developing image analysis software announced the acquisition of one of the nation’s largest independent anatomic pathology (AP) laboratories. The technology company PathAI is now the owner of Poplar Healthcare Man…
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