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Columbia/HCA, AmeriPath, Epitope, STC Technologies, Quest Diagnostics
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 8 – May 30, 2000 Issue
COLUMBIA/HCA GETS NEW NAME; ACQUIRES FOUR LONDON HOSPITALS NOW THAT IT HAS A SETTLEMENT with the federal government on civil claims of Medicare fraud, expect a rapid cascade of changes at Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company…
An Industrial Engineer Looks At Laboratory Automation And Robotics
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 3 – February 17, 1997 Issue
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: Last fall, Mark Smythe’s four-part DARK REPORT series about the thirteen “Perilous Parallels” common to commercial laboratory managers provoked widespread response among our clients and readers. We’ve invited him back to address management issues involving…
1997’s Most Interesting Laboratory Innovators
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 1 – January 6, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: During the next year, the clinical laboratory industry faces some of its toughest business challenges in history. Here are eight individuals who possess a unique combination of spirit and grit and seek to transform their laboratory organizations into winners. E…
Lab Services In Canada Undergo Radical Changes
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 1 – January 6, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Canada’s single-payer healthcare system is undergoing transformation. Rising costs now compel individual provinces to re-engineer their existing healthcare arrangements. In Alberta, commercial laboratories were forced to merge and cooperate with hospital-based laboratories….
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