Q3 2023 Financial Reports Show Growth at Labcorp, Quest

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 16 – November 13, 2023 Issue

Blood brothers Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics showed momentum beyond COVID-19 testing and toward areas that grew base business revenue in their third quarter (Q3) 2023 financial reporting. Company leaders called attention to more partnerships and acquisitions of ho…

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Labcorp Selects Oracle Cerner to Streamline Lab Workflows

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue

THERE IS A UNIQUE CORPORATE COLLABORATION unfolding that involves Labcorp and Oracle Cerner. Announced in November, Labcorp will use Oracle Cerner’s lab information systems to update clinical laboratory workflow processes and support the sharing of patient data across healthcare organ…

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Portland Lab Leverages Informatics for Growth

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No.14 – October 21, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Portland, Oregon, Legacy Laboratory Services, a division of Legacy Health, continues to post strong volume growth. One driver supporting this growth is the lab’s ability to implement connections between its laboratory information system (LIS) and the electronic …

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Alan Lloyd, 62, Dies of Cancer, Formerly CIO of Sonic Health

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 15 – October 29, 2012 Issue

THIS SUMMER, the global clinical laboratory industry lost a true innovator in medical laboratory management, operations, and informatics. On August 8, 2012, Dr. Alan Lloyd died peacefully at home from pancreatic cancer. Lloyd was widely-respected for his unique approaches to laboratory operations, l…

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May 14, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 7 – May 14, 2012 Issue

Mayo Clinic is taking steps to more fully integrate its laboratory informatics. In a press release dated April 27, 2012, it stated that it had completed a multi- year implementation of a new laboratory information system (LIS). The new LIS supports both the Department of Laboratory M…

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InCyte Pathology Buys DSM Lab in Walla Walla

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 5 – April 11, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For the nation’s thousands of private pathology group practices, consolidation is now a growing trend. The latest example is last week’s acquisition of the three-pathologist practice known as the Davis-Sameh-Meeker Laboratory in Walla Walla, Washington, by InCyte…

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Pathology Group Establishes Lab Test Exchange Networks

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 21, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: After several decades of steadfastly maintaining their independence from other pathology groups in their community, progressive hospital-based pathology groups are beginning to create regional laboratory testing networks. These collaborations generally start small an…

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Surprises in KLAS Rating of Anatomic Path Systems

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 1 – January 18, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: KLAS Research published its Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards in December and ranked Psyche WindoPath the top system in two categories. KLAS, which rates as many as 56 categories of healthcare software and professional services products in its annual report, does not provid…

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Spate of Lab Informatics Deals Signals Greater Investor Interest

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 15 – October 25, 2010 Issue

DURING OCTOBER, three laboratory informatics companies were acquired or obtained new capital funding. It is an indication of the growing importance that laboratory informatics will play as healthcare moves toward the goal of the universal patient health record (EHR). The first of the three transacti…

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Medicare Pays Doctors To Switch to E-Prescribing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 13 – September 21, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s a major step on the road to integration of healthcare informatics. During the next few years, the Medicare program is offering financial incentives to encourage office-based physicians to adopt e-prescribing. This is a positive development for local laboratori…

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