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Specialty Labs Moving To Web-Based Services
CEO SUMMARY: Competition for hospital reference and esoteric testing remains intense. Three years ago, Specialty Laboratories made an early bet on Internet technology. It believed that being first to offer faster and less complicated access to laboratory informatics resources would give i…
Physicians Demand Web Solutions From Clinical Labs
CEO SUMMARY: As physicians gain personal familiarity with the Internet and its potential to enhance their medical practice, they logically begin to want their clinical laboratory to offer web-based solutions. Physicians are driving this impending marketplace shift away from proprietary PC…
New Internet Companies Target Clinical Lab Services
CEO SUMMARY: During the coming transition from proprietary PC-based to web-based lab test ordering/reporting systems, it will be Internet start-up companies that have the competitive jump over traditional LIS vendors. There are many reasons why this is true. Here is a first look at the ma…
Advanced Health Targets Integrated Health Networks
“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 missio…
Healtheon Already Choice Of Public Lab Companies
CEO SUMMARY: Probably no single individual has greater insight about the changes now occurring to web-based laboratory test ordering and results reporting than Healtheon Corporation’s Nancy Ham. As Vice President of Connectivity & Institutional Services, Nancy is responsible for Hea…
Bio-Reference Labs, Tenet Healthcare, IMPATH
BIO-REFERENCE LABS QUIETLY IMPROVING LAB INFORMATION CAPABILITY LABORATORY INFORMATION is the strategic business plan driver at Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. of Elmwood Park, New Jersey. The company has begun to install an information management system throughout its labo…
Washington’s PacLab Network Succeeds With Standardization
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS CEO SUMMARY: In part one of this two-part series, we looked at how changes to healthcare in the state of Washington brought about the creation of PacLab Network Laboratories. In this concluding installment, we explore how PacLab is standardizing lab…
SBCL Inks National Pact With Aetna US Healthcare
CEO SUMMARY: As a corporate strategy, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories wants national contracts and exclusive provider status. The Aetna U.S. Healthcare agreement is SmithKline’s latest victory. Both companies are moving rapidly to implement the contract. In many cities where Ae…
LabCorp Hosts DARK REPORT For Burlington Site Visit
CEO SUMMARY: During the years of sustained bad financial news that dogged the major laboratories, there was a reluctance to speak publicly about any aspect of the laboratory business. That era seems to be ending, as LabCorp and the other national laboratories become friendlier and more ac…
Las Vegas Lab Gathering Debates Industry Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Always a good forum for discussion of laboratory industry trends, this year’s meeting in Las Vegas addressed government regulation, laboratory automation and everything in between. Here is a brief rundown on some of the more interesting insights and observations….
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