By R. Lewis Dark, from the Volume XXIV, No. 16 – November 20, 2017 issue
Last Friday, Roche announced an agreement to acquire Viewics, Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., in a transaction that, subject to regulatory clearance, is expected to close on Nov. 21. Viewics sells a middleware analytics solution to clinical labs. Terms of the sale were not announced. Viewics was founded in 2010.
SUNQUEST IN DEAL WITH N-OF-ONE
Earlier this month,
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXII NO. 16 - November 16, 2015 issue
Roper Industries, the owner of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., acquired two more lab informatics companies. On October 26, it announced a definitive agreement to purchase Atlas Medical, familiar to lab administrators as one of the main providers of connectivity solutions for clinical labs and pathology groups in the United States. Roper also signed an agreement to
By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXI NO. 1 - January 13, 2014 issue
CEO SUMMARY: One by one, new business models for clinical laboratory testing are popping up. Each is a response to healthcare’s rapid evolution, the ongoing decline in lab test reimbursement, and the growing role for molecular diagnostics and genetic testing. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Claritas Genomics, formerly the molecular lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, is one
By Robert Michel, from the Volume X No. 4 - March 24, 2003 issue
CEO SUMMARY: To date, only a handful of total laboratory automation (TLA) projects have been implemented in Great Britain. One of those first TLA projects is at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, located in the northern suburbs of London. Design work started in 1998 and the first phase became operational in 2000. Despite Britain’s single-payer
