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Several Major Surprises Mark Events of 2002
CEO SUMMARY: It was a year when the two blood brothers got much bigger and expanded market share by buying their largest competitors. With patient safety as the goal, employers began active steps to force hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers to use quality management syst…
It’s a Feud in North Carolina! LabCorp Versus Spectrum
OVER IN NORTH CAROLINA, one of those good, old-fashioned southern feuds is under way. Like the fabled feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys of years past, Spectrum Laboratory Network and Laboratory Corporation are in a full-fledged shoot-out over market share of…
Academic Center Lab Implementing Six Sigma
CEO SUMMARY: Fairview-University Medical Center’s laboratory may be the nation’s first academic center laboratory to deploy Six Sigma and Lean management systems. Administration expects Six Sigma to accelerate the rate at which improvements in quality and productivity can be realized….
Hospitals in Michigan Build Unique Shared Lab
CEO SUMMARY: This operational model for a collaborative regional laboratory organization makes “profit” irrelevant. Serving 30 hospitals in four Midwestern states, Michigan Co-Tenancy Laboratories is consistently expanding lab testing services, lowering costs, and emphasizing the labo…
Major Changes at Dade Behring Soon to Be Visible In Lab Market
Its recent financial restructuring now complete, Dade Behring prepares a “brand building” campaign CEO SUMMARY: Dade Behring is poised to become a tough and high-profile competitor in the laboratory diagnostics marketplace. Earlier this month,…
ARUP & Mayo Respond To New Market Cycle
CEO SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2002, several important events changed the competitive status quo among the nation’s leading providers of hospital send-out testing. As part of its ongoing assessment of this market segment, THE DARK REPORT provides strategic management insights from …
“October 7, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Without much fanfare or notice, Liposcience Inc. of Raleigh, North Carolina tested the waters for an initial public offering (IPO) last month. It found market conditions unfavorable for its proposed offering of $92 million and deferred its IPO. Liposcience, with annual revenues of $1…
Esoterix Ready to Launch National Marketing Blitz
CEO SUMMARY: It was 1995 when several specialty testing lab companies were acquired by a new company called Esoterix. Immediately the lab industry viewed Esoterix as a “put-together” lab company. However, since 2000, executives at Esoterix have invested $50 million to integrate operat…
Lab Competitors Pool Lab Data For Clinicians In British Columbia
CEO SUMMARY: In British Columbia, two commercial laboratory competitors have found common ground. BC Biomedical Laboratories and MDS Metro Laboratories are using LOINC to link their laboratory test databases. Physicians use a single system to access their patient’s test results, regardl…
United Kingdom Soon to Tackle Consolidation of Hospital Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation and regionalization of hospital laboratory testing are not isolated phenomenons. Beginning in the late 1980s, individual provinces in Canada began to rationalize lab testing services by building core labs and consolidating lab services across multiple hospitals….
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Volume XXXII, No. 14 – October 6, 2025
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