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Several Major Surprises Mark Events of 2002
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 17 – December 9, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was a year when the two blood brothers got much bigger and expanded market share by buying their largest competitors. With patient safety as the goal, employers began active steps to force hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers to use quality management syst…
Why Do Michigan Hospital Labs “Have it Together?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IX No. 15 – October 28, 2002 Issue
WHAT MAKES HOSPITAL LABORATORY ADMINISTRATORS AND PATHOLOGISTS in Michigan so willing to be both innovative and collaborative in creating sophisticated and financially successful regional laboratory organizations? As you will read on pages 2-6, Michigan Co-Tenancy Laboratory (MCL), …
Hospitals in Michigan Build Unique Shared Lab
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 15 – October 28, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This operational model for a collaborative regional laboratory organization makes “profit” irrelevant. Serving 30 hospitals in four Midwestern states, Michigan Co-Tenancy Laboratories is consistently expanding lab testing services, lowering costs, and emphasizing the labo…
MT/MLT Training Insights From Calif. University
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 15 – October 28, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators from 15 San Francisco Bay Area hospitals recently approached their CEOs and requested a five-year funding commitment of $1.5 million to train and expand the supply of CLSs and MTs. One key element in this effort was the enthusiastic support of those …
Major Changes at Dade Behring Soon to Be Visible In Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 15 – October 28, 2002 Issue
Its recent financial restructuring now complete, Dade Behring prepares a “brand building” campaign CEO SUMMARY: Dade Behring is poised to become a tough and high-profile competitor in the laboratory diagnostics marketplace. Earlier this month,…
Quiet Progress on the Med Tech Supply Crisis
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IX No. 14 – October 7, 2002 Issue
QUIETLY, WITHOUT MUCH FANFARE, a growing number of laboratory administrators and pathologists are taking action to increase the supply of med techs in their community. It’s the unpublicized response to the headlines about the impending mass retirement of baby-boomer MTs and MLTs. This is a notewor…
San Fran Bay Hospitals Jointly Fund MT Training
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 14 – October 7, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators in 15 Bay-area hospitals created their own plan to expand the available pool of trained med techs. Using a detailed analysis of the demographics of the problem, along with a financial analysis of non-action, they convinced CEOs of 15 hospitals to inv…
Lab Testing to Boom During This Decade
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 11 – August 5, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Several recent acquisitions of lab test technology by billion-dollar diagnostics manufacturers reinforce a new reality in the healthcare marketplace: developing new diagnostic tests is faster, cheaper, and more profitable than developing new pharmaceutical products. This simp…
Big Premium Increases Drive Higher Profits at Nation’s HMOs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 11 – August 5, 2002 Issue
EVEN AS EMPLOYERS COMPLAIN about spiraling healthcare costs, the nation’s biggest health insurers are enjoying robust profits. That brings up the interesting question about whether providers, including laboratories, can get better pricing during the next year, since HMOs are again profita…
Specialty Progresses With CA Lab Regulators
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 10 – July 15, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Earlier this month California laboratory regulators found Specialty Laboratories, Inc. to be “in substantial compliance with California clinical laboratory law.” This is an important milestone in restoring the lab company to full compliance with both state and federal labor…
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