By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XIX No. 8 - June 04, 2012 issue
CEO SUMMARY: In the national market for reference and esoteric testing, Cleveland Clinic Laboratories (CCL) is preparing to expand its presence. It has just moved into a $75 million state-of-the-art laboratory facility and wants to increase its outreach reference testing by four-fold within five years. A doubling of the national sales force is in the
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XV No. 6 - May 5, 2008 issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Japan, many clinical laboratories are in their third decade of using automation. At the University of Tokyo Hospital, total laboratory automation (TLA) was first implemented in 1991. Now on its fourth generation TLA system, this laboratory was worked upstream to automate specimen collection and urine collection, transport, and specimen preparation. The result
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XII No. 13 - September 12, 2005 issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s one of the most interesting lab acquisitions to take place in the past decade. Pathologist-owners of Austin, Texas-based Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. are selling up to 85% of their lab company to Sonic Healthcare, Ltd, Australia’s largest laboratory firm. The acquisition brings a new lab competitor into the U.S. market and is
By Robert Michel, from the Volume X No. 11 - August 18, 2003 issue
CEO SUMMARY: In the first 14 months of operation, Kaiser Permanente Northwest’s new automated regional laboratory facility, the nation’s first designed by an ISO-9000-certified lab organization, is yielding big gains in both productivity and outcomes. In its high-volume core lab, productivity more than doubled, while the new laboratory’s average cost-per-test declined by 8.7% during that
By Robert Michel, from the Volume VI No. 15 - November 1, 1999 issue
“The question that every clinical laboratory must now ask is this: will my lab be a technology differentiator or a technology enabler?”
Rob Alger, Advanced Health Technology
CEO SUMMARY: Many hospital-based laboratories have a different mission than commercial laboratories. They must support the variety of provider types that participate inside the integrated healthcare system. Advanced Health Technologies (AHT)
