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Specialty Laboratories’ New CEO Reveals How His Company Is Changing
“You will see a more tightly focused Specialty Labs. We won’t try and do everything, rather we will do what is important for our customers.” —Douglas S. Harrington, M.D CEO SUMMARY: In recent months, several events roiled the market for hos…
“January 28, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It may be a sign of change in how at least one national managed care company is willing to contract for laboratory services. During the last four weeks, UnitedHealthcare signed agreements with Dynacare, Inc. and Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI). Dynacare operates labs in 21 st…
LabNet of Ohio Profits From Network Projects
CEO SUMMARY: Since its inception seven years ago, this regional lab network has worked diligently to create the service infrastructure necessary to pursue managed care contracts. Along the way, LabNet of Ohio has found gold in such business initiatives as shared testing and group purchasi…
New Automation Tools Ready for Clinical Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Evidence grows that workstation automation and modular automation can be cost-effective solutions in the clinical laboratory. But the newest generation of automation technology presents lab administrators with a new challenge. Financial analysis and workplace reengineering ar…
Shared Lab Organizations Evolving Into New Forms
CEO SUMMARY: For two decades, the limited number of laboratory joint ventures that appeared were invariably partnerships between commercial labs and hospital labs. Today’s hostile healthcare environment makes it tougher for these types of joint ventures to prosper and meet the needs all…
Hospital Labs To Regain Pre-Eminence in Coming Years
CEO SUMMARY: During the past five years, powerful forces in the healthcare marketplace positioned hospital-based laboratories to once again become the dominant force in laboratory testing. But this can only occur if today’s generation of hospital laboratory directors and clinical pathol…
NH Rural Hospital Labs Connecting Via Internet
CEO SUMMARY: Expect the Internet to be a tool for leveling the competitive playing field. Ten rural hospital labs in New Hampshire are now connecting their labs and their outreach physician office clients with a Web-based lab test ordering and results reporting system. The goal is to incr…
Academic Hospital Lab Raises Competitive Bar
CEO SUMMARY: Few academic center laboratories are as swift-moving as the UMASS Health System Laboratory. In the next 90 days, it will move into a brand new off-site core laboratory. During this same 90 days, it is implementing its first web-based laboratory test ordering and results repor…
CARESIDE POC Solution in entirety, the traditional way of performing tests in the To Alter Lab Organization
CEO SUMMARY: CARESIDE’s point-of-care testing system gives laboratory executives a new tool for bringing value-added laboratory services to clinicians. In this exclusive interview, W. Vickery Stoughton, Chairman and CEO of CARESIDE, Inc., shares his perspectives on the clinical laborato…
Ten Management Myths Misled Clinical Laboratory Executives
CEO SUMMARY: We offer our second installment about the ten management myths which led the clinical laboratory industry astray during the 1980s and 1990s. Regretfully, clients responding to part one of this series tell us that these management myths remain alive and well—and continue to …
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Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025
The Dark Report examines a new bill that would reform PAMA and avoid reimbursement rate cuts scheduled for January 2026. Clinical laboratory leaders are urged to make their voices heard in Congress. Also, an expert describes how labs can fix pre-analytical errors and avoid disaster.
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