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Terrorist Attacks Affect Many of Nation’s Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Following terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC, the total shutdown of commercial air traffic in the United States for 48 hours disrupted the regular shipment of reference and esoteric lab specimens to national laboratories. Swiftly-implemented contingency eff…
Analysis of Lab Testing Market Reveals Competitive Shifts
CEO SUMMARY: Even as public lab and anatomic pathology companies enjoy sustained growth in specimen volumes and revenues, fundamental shifts in the basic marketplace have changed the competitive environment. Surprisingly, the most open market segment is anatomic pathology specimens referr…
Investors Coming Back To Clinical Lab Industry
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…
Bankruptcy Court Okays Unilab’s Offer For Meris
CEO SUMMARY: Meris Laboratories, Inc. is now history. California’s intense competitive market pushed the company into bankruptcy and eventual sale to Unilab, Inc. Even as Unilab moves to consolidate and integrate Meris’ clients and operations into its system, attention is focusing on …
SmithKline’s Strategies Now Delivering Benefits
CEO SUMMARY: Business strategy does make a difference. However, it sometimes takes years to appreciate the wisdom of choosing one strategy over another. In the case of SmithKline Beecham’s lab division, the decision to become sole-source provider to the nation’s largest HMOs may event…
SBCL Inks National Pact With Aetna US Healthcare
CEO SUMMARY: As a corporate strategy, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories wants national contracts and exclusive provider status. The Aetna U.S. Healthcare agreement is SmithKline’s latest victory. Both companies are moving rapidly to implement the contract. In many cities where Ae…
Hospital Lab-Commercial Lab Partnering Is Upcoming Trend
CEO SUMMARY: At this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans, laboratory innovators convened to study hot new trends in the industry.They were surprised to learn that partnering relationships between hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories are finally gaining wider accepta…
30-Hospital Lab Contract Inked By Tenet & SBCL
CEO SUMMARY: By signing this deal with Tenet, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories captured one of the largest hospital laboratory management contracts ever offered. The project’s size, scale and far-flung geography make this a daunting challenge, particularly given California’s c…
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Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024
The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.
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