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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…
Curse Of Consolidation Plagues Health Providers
WITHOUT QUESTION, today’s healthcare world is dominated by a single obvious trend: consolidation. The consequences of consolidation affect every segment of healthcare in the United States. The commercial laboratory industry had the dubious distinction of being the first major segment of healthcare…
Unilab’s Bid To Buy Meris Will Shake Up California
CEO SUMMARY: More laboratory overcapacity may be removed from the California marketplace if Unilab purchases Meris Laboratories. Unilab’s offer to buy Meris must be cleared by the bankruptcy court and other bidders may surface during the coming weeks. These events are a reminder that fi…
Pathologists, Clin Labs, Pharmacogenomics & PPMs
AT MY AGE, I AM LEARNING THAT PEOPLE TEND TO HOLD ONE OF TWO OPINIONS about me. It seems that I can frequently be considered a doddering old fool who is totally unhip (although I recall an even earlier generation calling it “unhep”). On the other hand, there are those who grant me great respect. …
Pharmacogenomics Is The Coming Wave
CEO SUMMARY: It may be gloom and doom today in the clinical laboratory industry, but long term prospects for diagnostic testing are brightening. Increased understanding of human genetics drives new discoveries about how and why the same drug affects individuals differently. Biotech compan…
Genetic Testing Almost Accented In Market Place
CEO SUMMARY: Advances in molecular and genetic science have generated the first generation of diagnostic assays for clinical use. As these assays reach the public, acceptance is not immediate. Obstacles are many: ethical, cultural, clinical, and economic. Oncormed’s experience during th…
DIANON Shoots At Urocor, Makes Unwelcome Offer
CEO SUMMARY: It pays to know your friends. Last month DIANON Systems announced an unsolicited offer to acquire UroCor. The offer, following months of ongoing discussions between the two companies, was clearly unwelcome at UroCor. Both companies are pushing hard to evolve disease managemen…
Veterans Administration Network Restructures Using Partnering, Telepathology
CEO SUMMARY: Economic pressures are forcing even the traditional and staid Veterans Administration to extensively reconfigure its laboratory services. At this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans, participants learned how one eight-hospi…
United Health’s Big Losses Derail Merger With Humana
CEO SUMMARY: Considered the darling of the managed care industry by investors, United Healthcare’s huge write-down makes it the latest healthcare behemoth to post an immense loss. Laboratory executives should see this as a sign that even big healthcare companies are struggling to develop fiscal sta…
“Corporatized” Healthcare Encountering Big Losses
CEO SUMMARY: When the clinical laboratory industry found itself losing hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years, few people imagined that billion-dollar HMO and PPM companies would soon experience similar losses. Current trends in the managed care marketplace indicate that problems…
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