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Sonic Healthcare Ltd., Reports Full Year Earnings for FY 2011
ON AUGUST 23, Sonic Healthcare Ltd., of Sydney, Australia, released its financial results for its fiscal year ending June 30, 2011. This provided an opportunity to assess Sonic’s impact in the United States, where it has regularly expanded its testing activities. Sonic reported st…
InCyte Pathology Buys DSM Lab in Walla Walla
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…
Specimen Volume Declines Reported By Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp
IN REPORTING SECOND QUARTER EARNINGS, there was enough difference in the numbers announced by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America to catch the attention of financial analysts. Revenue at LabCorp was up for the quarter while revenue a…
New Clinical Lab Trends To Shape Events in 2010
CEO SUMMARY: In presenting this list of macro trends for clinical laboratories, several themes are in play. They range from a continued emphasis on improving lab operations to the need to acquire and deploy sophisticated information technology. During the next few years, the long…
Lab Conserves Blood When Drawing Patients
CEO SUMMARY: New attention on both the risks associated with blood transfusions and the cost of blood products is triggering action by the nation’s hospitals. At the 719-bed Rhode Island Hospital, the laboratory is on the front line of the hospital’s blood management initiative. One c…
August 18, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There’s a new lab company in New York City. Manhattan Physicians Laboratory, Inc. (MPL) was recently launched by two former executives from Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. Thomas Golubic is MPL’s President and William Nouri is Vice President and Lab Operations Di…
Implementing Best Practices Across 27 Hospital Labs
CEO SUMMARY: It is always challenging to ensure consistency and high productivity across the different labs in a consolidated lab organization. To help staff focus on quality and efficiency, Alverno Clinical Laboratories LLC uses Lean methods to improve quality and timely delivery of lab …
Ascendium Consulting Is New Firm In Lab Market
CEO SUMMARY: Growing numbers of laboratories are taking steps to reengineer work flow, evaluate automation solutions, and improve the operational performance of their laboratory. This is fueling a demand for laboratory consulting services and Ascendium Consulting is this newest healthcare…
Lean, Six Sigma and Laboratory Errors
IT IS TOUGH TO IGNORE THE STEADY DRUMBEAT about patient safety. In every sector of healthcare, accrediting bodies, state legislatures, private insurers, and federal health administrators are instituting programs designed to focus providers on eliminating the sources of medical errors and reducing the…
Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using “Distributed Computing”
“In several different countries, laboratories already use ‘distributed computing’, in the form of a single LIS data center that provides informatics services to as many as 25 laboratories in a region. The trend is to increase interoperability and portability of the i…
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