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Hospital Lab-Commercial Lab Partnering Is Upcoming Trend
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 7 – May 26, 1998 Issue
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…
MTHN Provides Lessons In Creating Lab Networks
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 4 – March 23, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Every regional laboratory network in the United States is unique. Regional variations in healthcare and business objectives are different in every case. But the management problems of network structure, governance, marketing and finance are always the same. Here are some usef…
Tennessee Lab Network In Start-Up Preparations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 4 – March 23, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Planning for the Middle Tennessee Healthcare Network’s proposed regional laboratory network took longer than expected, but not without good cause. Organizers of this laboratory network did their homework and created a solid business plan. Approval by CEOs from the participa…
Louisiana Reference Lab Purchased By Dynacare
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 18 – December 29, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: General Health System of Baton Rouge decided to “cash in” the capital value of its consolidated laboratory organization by selling it to Dynacare. It will use the money for other corporate projects. This sales transaction validates that there is still considerable value t…
Tennessee Lab Network To Become Operational
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 12 – August 25, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Although news of regional laboratory networks disappeared from the pages of lab industry publications, the movement is far from dead. In Tennessee, 13 hospital laboratories are about to launch the Middle Tennessee Healthcare Network. Organizers believe they have solutions to …
Quest Diagnostics, Sonora Join Phoenix Operations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 11 – August 4, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: When Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Sonora Laboratory Sciences announced their joint venture, it confirmed that Quest Diagnostics is the first of the national laboratories to begin serious restructuring of its national network of regional laboratories. Such restructuring …
New Hybrid Lab Systems Provide Peek At Future
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 7 – May 12, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As the first generation of regional laboratory systems begin operation, the marketplace is about to separate winners from losers. Stakes are high for hospital laboratory administrators. If they choose to affiliate with the wrong model, the consequences can cause extended disr…
Regional Lab Systems Beginning To Emerge
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 7 – May 12, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Regionalization of laboratory services is about to become a dominant industry trend. Four groups of players will drive this process and each needs to recruit hospital laboratories to participate in their regional model. This is the first generation of attempts to create finan…
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