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New Features Slated For Lab Information Systems
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 5 – March 31, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Two processes are transforming healthcare: managed care and quality management. Laboratory information systems must incorporate radically new features if they are to support changes to clinical laboratory operations. This makes it imperative that laboratory executives select …
Questions, Answers & Viewpoints
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 5 – March 31, 1997 Issue
Dear Editor: The story in your February 17 issue about laboratory automation as viewed by an industrial engineer was fascinating. He did a great job of helping me understand how to look at clinical laboratory automation. However, you say nothing about the centralized/decentralized issue. …
Laboratories Enter The Era Of Big Government
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IV No. 4 – March 10, 1997 Issue
You will read in this issue of THE DARK REPORT how federal prosecutors have now taken all three of the national laboratories to the woodshed. SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories was the latest to make the trip, paying $325 million to settle a wide variety of allegations and viol…
Las Vegas Lab Gathering Debates Industry Trends
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 4 – March 10, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Always a good forum for discussion of laboratory industry trends, this year’s meeting in Las Vegas addressed government regulation, laboratory automation and everything in between. Here is a brief rundown on some of the more interesting insights and observations….
Lab Services In Canada Undergo Radical Changes
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 1 – January 6, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Canada’s single-payer healthcare system is undergoing transformation. Rising costs now compel individual provinces to re-engineer their existing healthcare arrangements. In Alberta, commercial laboratories were forced to merge and cooperate with hospital-based laboratories….
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