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Business Premises Underlying Lab Industry Dynamics
This chapter addresses the characteristics of the laboratory industry which define the starting point for changes and ongoing evolution. The eight business premises listed in this White Paper describe unique situations which directly influence the ability of clinical laboratories to serve the medical…
Year’s Ten Biggest Stories Reveal Modest Changes
CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, 2000 was a relatively quiet year for laboratory organizations. This list of the ten biggest stories in the lab industry for 2000 demonstrates that the most innovative laboratory organizations in the United States are “raising the bar” for service and quality…
Premier’s Lab Vendors Hooking Up Via Internet
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory members of Premier will soon be purchasing instruments, reagents, and supplies through medibuy.com’s Internet healthcare e-commerce site. Four major lab industry suppliers are actively working to link with the medibuy.com and Premier Web sites. For Premier, this …
Professional Management Does Get Results
IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO STUDY THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE of certain public laboratories in 1999 and into 2000, you will be struck by the strong growth and profit numbers. That is contrary to the popular wisdom, which says that the clinical lab industry is in financial doldrums. But the strong financi…
Dr. Bruce Friedman Identifies Market Dynamics Driving Evolution of Lab Information Services
CEO SUMMARY: Probably no one is better positioned to identify the evolution of laboratory information services than Bruce Friedman, M.D., Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. For almost 20 years, he has hosted the pre-eminent meeting in laborat…
How Smaller Lab Organizations Can Compete
MAYBE THE PENDULUM IS SWINGING BACK IN FAVOR of smaller laboratory organizations. During most of the 1990s, consolidation and large size seemed to generate clout. But huge size didn’t always result in profitable laboratory companies. Witness the red ink spilled from such public laboratory compani…
Beckman Coulter’s Strategy Reflects Consolidation Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Rapid changes to the clinical laboratory industry had equally profound impact upon the major diagnostic companies. At Beckman Coulter, Inc., market forces triggered a decade of acquisitions and internal consolidation.The company looks very different today than it did ten year…
Express Scripts, InformInvestor.com, UroCor, Bio-Reference Laboratories
PRESCRIPTION DRUG SPENDING HITS A RECORD INCREASE OF 17.4% IN 1999 Just-released data from Express Scripts, Inc. indicates that spending on prescription drugs increased by a record 17.4% during 1999. This compares to a 9.6% spending increase for drugs in 1998. As most lab e…
Questions Remain About Performance Of Liquid-Prep Paps
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…
Labs Should Leverage Their “Crown Jewels”
ONE NEW FEATURE of our annual Executive War College every May is a Lab CEO SUMMIT which takes place on the Thursday after the Tuesday-Wednesday event. It attracts a growing number of senior lab executives and pathologists who come to explore the strategic directions of the lab industry and p…
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Volume XXXII, No. 15 – October 27, 2025
The Dark Report examines the momentous decision by the VA to switch accreditors from The Joint Commission to CAP. Also, we analyze retractions in pathology journals to gain insight into scientific fraud.
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