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HealthcheckUSA Makes Progress With Consumers
CEO SUMMARY: There’s a story behind the story at HealthcheckUSA, one of the nation’s best-known sources offering consumers direct access to laboratory testing. Its primary business is holding community screens and grocery store lab testing programs throughout the United States. Becaus…
Con Man Rips Off Lab In Kingsport, Tennessee
CEO SUMMARY: It will certainly rank as one of the major executive frauds in the clinical laboratory industry. In the wake of MEDex Laboratories’ Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing in April, an amazing tale of deceit and deception began unfolding. At the center of the story is ex-MEDex CEO Mic…
Laboratory Medicine Goes Global
IN MY OPINION, THE ABILITY OF TWO ST. LOUIS HOSPITALS TO PROVIDE a sophisticated menu of reference testing for a developing nation located more than 12,000 miles away is remarkable. (See …
Eritrea Uses St. Louis For Reference Testing
CEO SUMMARY: On one level, it’s the classic story of volunteerism and help for a developing nation. But on another level, it’s a dramatic demonstration of how new technologies allow two hospital laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri to effectively provide reference laboratory tests and …
Beaumont Reference Labs Earns ISO-9000 for Outreach
MOTIVATED BY THE GOAL of improving all aspects of its laboratory outreach program, Beaumont Reference Laboratories (BRL) of Royal Oaks, Michigan recently earned its ISO-9000:2001 certification. “In the competitive market for lab testing, we wanted to raise the bar,” stated Joseph E. Skrisson, D…
Nine Key Trends Are Shaping Nation’s Healthcare Informatics
CEO SUMMARY: During the 1990s, hospital spending on information technology was devoted primarily to acquiring upgraded versions of software systems for clinical services such as laboratory, pharmacy, and radiology. That’s no longer true. As the following nine key trends in healthcare in…
SARS Contained in Toronto, Labs Still in Caution Mode
IN RECENT DAYS, public health officials in the Canadian province of Ontario have declared the SARS outbreak to be contained. As described in the last issue of THE DARK REPORT, the outbreak of SARS in Ontario had a significant operational impact on clinical laboratories in the province. (See TDR,…
Specialty Laboratories, IMPATH, Roche, Abbott Laboratories, Celera Diagnostics
SPECIALTY LABORATORIES RESTORING STABILITY IN SPECIMEN VOLUME IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT COMPETITORS of Specialty Laboratories, Inc. have been willing to spread a variety of rumors about the laboratory company, given its well-publicized troubles with government regulators last …
“May 5, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There are rumors coming from the West Coast that government laboratory regulators are targeting at least one laboratory company for some significant violations. Because allegations of compliance violations by the government can severely damage a lab company’s reputation, there is a tight lid on infor…
Toronto Labs Stressed in Response To SARS Outbreak
THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT BRINGS SOME OF THE FIRST DETAILS about how the SARS outbreak in the Canadian Province of Ontario is causing widespread, sustained disruption to hospitals, laboratories, and office-based physicians, particularly in the Toronto metropolitan area. When the earl…
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