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Internet-Based Lab Info Racing Into Marketplace
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 15 – November 1, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s another roller coaster ride for clinical laboratories and pathology practices. Within 24 months, virtually all physician offices will be using web-based technology to order lab tests and receive test results. Web-based ordering/reporting of laboratory testing will driv…
Physicians Demand Web Solutions From Clinical Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 15 – November 1, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As physicians gain personal familiarity with the Internet and its potential to enhance their medical practice, they logically begin to want their clinical laboratory to offer web-based solutions. Physicians are driving this impending marketplace shift away from proprietary PC…
“November 1, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 15 – November 1, 1999 Issue
Well-run hospital laboratory outreach programs continue to thrive. Last week THE DARK REPORT was in Chicago to visit Genesis Clinical Laboratory. Located in Berwyn, Illinois, Genesis is a for-profit subsidiary of McNeal Hospital. During the last two years, Genesis Pr…
Revamped Houston JV Validates Industry Trend
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 14 – October 11, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Change is notoriously slow in both the hospital and the clinical laboratory industry. The announcement of a revamped laboratory joint venture between Houston’s Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and Dynacare demonstrates that market pressures continue to encourage the ratio…
KC Regional Lab Network Makes Steady Progress
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 12 – August 30, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Kansas City, members of the Regional Laboratory Alliance (RLA) had a common purpose in forming their network four years ago—to preserve their status as laboratory provider for a major managed care plan in their area. After successfully attaining that goal, RLA’s member…
How Hospital Lab Directors Fail Their Employees
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VI No. 11 – August 9, 1999 Issue
EVERY NOW AND THEN I WANT TO TAKE some segment of the laboratory industry to task for things they ought to be doing. Today it will be hospital laboratory directors. Virtually every hospital lab administrator in the United States will tell you that they are concerned about the job stability and welfa…
West Hills Hospital Lab Hits Outreach Home Run
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 11 – August 9, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Popular wisdom says that California’s managed care market is a financial disaster for clinical laboratories. Yet here’s an exciting story about a community hospital that launched a brand-new laboratory outreach program in 1997 and found solid success. During the last two …
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…
Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp Face an Evolving Marketplace
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 11 – August 9, 1999 Issue
TWO OF THE THREE BLOOD BROTHERS reported continued improvement in their financial condition as second quarter earnings reports were made public. This news, however, was overshadowed by speculation about the failure of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated to consummate its purchase of …
Sales & Marketing Is Critical To Success Of Labs & Pathologists
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 4 – March 15, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Careful study of the most successful lab oratories operating today reveals a common characteristic: the effective use of sale s and marketing methods to boost specimen volume, revenue, and operating profits. This is true whether it’s a hospital lab outreach program, a comme…
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