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Automated Cytology Technology To Come Into Its Own In 1998
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 2 – February 9, 1998 Issue
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Small is Beautiful
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume V No. 1 – January 19, 1998 Issue
I MAY BE THE FIRST TO PUBLICLY DESCRIBE an emerging market trend in the laboratory industry. Starting in the mid-1980s, small laboratories disappeared from the landscape at an astonishing rate. Within the commercial laboratory segment, acquisitions of small laboratories fueled the consolidation proce…
Market Forces Cause Detroit’s Lab Network To Launch Operations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 1 – January 19, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories’ success rests on an essential fact: it exists to respond to marketplace demands. The network links laboratory operations of 24 hospitals owned by eight integrated delivery systems in Greater Detroit. Not only is it the oldest continuousl…
“State of Lab Industry” Reveals Radical Change
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 17 – December 8, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pick your trend: declining reimbursement, consolidation, clinical integration, downsizing, and capitated reimbursement. These trends all continued to shape the way laboratories organized to provide services. But 1997’s wildcard was the federal government. Between investigat…
Tenet, SBCL Discussing 33 Hospital Lab Contract
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 16 – November 17, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Tenet Healthcare’s decision to entertain proposals for improving laboratory operations in its Southern California division triggered a year-long discussion with national laboratories. If a deal results, it would represent one of the largest “re-engineering” projects bet…
Market Upheavals Around The Corner
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IV No. 15 – October 27, 1997 Issue
In reviewing the galley proofs for this issue of THE DARK REPORT, I am struck by the potential for significant market upheaval in two areas of laboratory medicine: pathology and the clinical laboratory marketplace of California. The stories about AmeriPath, Inc. and California labora…
“October 6, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 14 – October 6, 1997 Issue
Michael J. Bechich, M.D., Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is hosting his second annual conference in Pittsburgh next week. Anatomic Pathology Informatics, Imaging and the Internet is scheduled for October 16-18 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center…
LabCorp Hosts DARK REPORT For Burlington Site Visit
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 13 – September 15, 1997 Issue
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…
Visualize Your Laboratory’s Future
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IV No. 7 – May 12, 1997 Issue
Many of you who read this will be in attendance at the second annual Executive War College on Medical Laboratory Networking in New Orleans. The case studies of laboratory consolidation and regional laboratory networks that you’ll hear provide compelling evidence that laboratories must chan…
Florida Medicare Carrier Raises Kickback Issues
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 5 – March 31, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: When Florida’s Medicare carrier published a notice which defined certain pathology practices to be possible violations of anti-kickback laws, it created uncertainty for labs. DIANON took immediate steps to insure compliance while seeking clarification from regulators on thi…
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