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Summary and Overview of Lab Industry
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 18 – December 25, 2000 Issue
If there is any common theme to the different chapters of this White Paper on the laboratory industry, it is probably this: in the next couple of years, clinical laboratories will continue to have one foot in the past and one foot in the future. Simply put, lab administrators will continue to manag…
Questions Remain About Performance Of Liquid-Prep Paps
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 9 – June 19, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: During the past five years, several companies entered the lab marketplace with claims that their new Pap test technologies are improvements over conventional Pap smear methods. Armed with investment capital from Wall Street, these companies launched aggressive sales and marke…
New Automation Tools Ready for Clinical Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 7 – May 8, 2000 Issue
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…
Big Challenges For Clinical Laboratories
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VI No. 15 – November 1, 1999 Issue
AS YOU WILL READ IN THIS ISSUE, IT IS A REMARKABLE PREDICTION. Our editor states that, in only 24 months, virtually every physicians office in the United States will be connected to its laboratory providers through a web-based arrangement. In my decades of watching the clinical laboratory industry, …
Ten Management Myths Misled Clinical Laboratory Executives
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 13 – September 20, 1999 Issue
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 …
Outsourcing Lab Outreach Leads to Better Service
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 11 – August 9, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Many hospital laboratories continue to endure non-stop cutbacks to staffing and funding. The success of the recently instituted laboratory testing outreach program at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center validates that the market continues to reward labs willing to offer ad…
Ten Myths of Lab Management That Led the Clinical Lab Industry Astray
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 11 – August 9, 1999 Issue
Part One of a Special Series CEO SUMMARY: One of our most popular series ever was the “13 Perilous Parallels” of laboratory management. This four-part story appeared in 1996 and chronicled similar management strategies used by various national laboratories during the…
Investors Coming Back To Clinical Lab Industry
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 8 – June 7, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Wall Street money is beginning to flow back into the commercial laboratory industry. This time the beneficiary is Unilab Corporation of Tarzana, California. New York-based Kelso & Company signed an agreement to buy 93% of Unilab’s shares. The common perception among fin…
“June 7, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 8 – June 7, 1999 Issue
Another laboratorian has caught entrepreneur’s fever. Paul Gotcher accepted a position in April as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Advanced Pathology Systems, Inc. (PSI) of San Francisco. PSI is a start-up company developing enhanced microscopy techniques. Gotcher was mos…
Movers & Shakers For ’99 Demonstrate Leadership
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 4 – March 15, 1999 Issue
EACH YEAR IT BECOMES more difficult to make final selections for our annual Movers & Shakers awards. The reason is simple. Today there are more examples of leadership in the laboratory than when we first started these selections three years ago. This is a good omen. It means that the crucible of…
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