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Beckman Coulter Gets New CEO, Stock Gets Analyst Downgrade
AFTER SPENDING MOST OF 1998 digesting its 1997 acquisition of Coulter Corporation, Beckman Coulter, Inc. is ready for new business initiatives in the diagnostics marketplace. Beckman Coulter enters 1999 with a new leader. John P. Wareham, currently President and CEO, will assume the…
Top-Performing Labs at Executive War College
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Executive War College time approaches. Scheduled for May 11-12, 1999 at the New Orleans Sheraton, this year’s roster of innovative laboratories promises to provide valuable insight about winning strategies. An expanded program offers a lab industry first: a know…
Washington State’s PacLab Network Is A Regional Winner
CEO SUMMARY: As a regional laboratory network, PacLab is unusual in one respect: participating hospital laboratories did not meet endlessly to talk about what they should do. Instead, action was the operative word for these network organizers. Since becoming operational in 1996, their bia…
Chiron Is Biotech Firm, Respected For Innovation
CEO SUMMARY: Chiron is respected for its leadership in branched DNA and viral load technologies. The company had high expectations for its diagnostics group, particularly after its purchase of Ciba Corning. But rapid consolidation of the diagnostics industry changed Chiron’s opportunity…
AACC Convention Exhibits Point To New Lab Trends
CEO SUMMARY: This year the interesting trend at the AACC’s exhibit hall was modular laboratory automation. That’s a big change from the total laboratory automation solutions touted in past years. But watch out! The economics of this equipment have yet to be validated. It was also clea…
Blunt Talk From HMO Blue’s Ancillary Contracts Manager
CEO SUMMARY: By now, most clinical laboratory executives and pathologists have discovered a new fact of life: provider status with managed care organizations is a critical success factor. Without provider status, the laboratory is denied access to patients and the reimbursement associated…
Expect ISO 9000 To Alter Clinical Lab Management
CEO SUMMARY: Perceptive laboratory executives and pathologists should welcome the impending arrival of ISO 9000 into the clinical laboratory industry. It promises to solve many problems of laboratory management. The diagnostics industry, responsible for manufacturing instruments and suppl…
Unrealized Gains Targeted By Premier’s Lab Initiative
CEO SUMMARY: In part one of this exclusive interview, Premier’s John Biggers described the reasons why the 1,700 hospital consortium developed a strategic services program for clinical laboratories. In this final installment, Biggers provides insight as to how the program will work and …
Premier Explains Reasons It Sees Lab As Strategic
CEO SUMMARY: Premier’s strategic alliance with Quest Diagnostics Incorporated represents a fundamental shift in the marketplace for hospital-based clinical laboratory services. This was a project developed by Premier, in response to its evaluation of marketplace trends affecting hospita…
Premier Executive John Biggers Discusses Reasons For Laboratory Initiative
CEO SUMMARY: Because of Premier’s influence with 1,700 of the nation’s 5,000 hospitals, laboratory administrators and executives should realize that this strategic services alliance between Premier and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated will change traditional laboratory practices, regard…
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