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“Where’s The Beef?” AP’s AWOL at AmeriPath
REMEMBER THAT FAMOUS TELEVISION commercial from Wendy’s burger restaurants? The elderly lady scrutinizes a big hamburger bun that’s obviously short on meat and asks the seminal question “Where’s the beef?” In 1984, it was a catch line that captured the American imagination and was repeated…
The Lab Industry’s Market Share Juggernauts
MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT 2002 WAS AN UNEXPECTEDLY ACTIVE YEAR for public laboratory company acquisitions. The entire rank of mid-market public laboratory companies actively selling routine testing services to physicians’ offices was swept from the board by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and L…
LabCorp Starts Tinkering With DIANON Systems
CEO SUMMARY: For almost two decades, DIANON Systems supported one of the most successful sales and marketing programs in the public laboratory sector. However, despite its pre-acquisition statements that it would retain DIANON’s operational integrity, LabCorp has already begun to implem…
New Trends in 2003 Affect Clinical Lab Services
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s our current list of macro trends that affect clinical laboratories, updated from the last list in January 2000. One bold prediction is that Medicare, as we know it, is on the verge of a major meltdown. Employers and consumers are also new forces to be reckoned with b…
Grasping the Impact of the Genetic Revolution
IT’S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since healthcare futurist Rick J. Carlson shared his insights about the impending genomic/proteomic revolution at the Executive War College in NewnOrleans last May. A key theme of his message was that diagnostic services would be squarely in the middle of the coming genetics…
Laboratories Sit Squarely Between New Genetics and Today’s Medicine
“Clinical laboratories and pathology groups are at the leading edge of the genetic revolution.” —Rick J. Carlson. CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare futurist Rick J. Carlson believes that knowledge of the human genome will trigger revolutionary…
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…
More Consolidation: Where Will It Lead?
I CERTAINLY DID NOT FORESEE ALL THE LAB ACQUISITION ACTIVITY that occurred during 2002. Compared to recent years, both Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America have been on a buying spree this year. Quest Diagnostics acquired Amer…
Why DIANON Sale Alters Anatomic Path Market
CEO SUMMARY: By acquiring DIANON Systems, LabCorp raises the level of competition for tissue specimens originating in physicians’ offices. LabCorp’s acquisition is also a validation of predictions that cancer diagnostics will be a high-growth segment of laboratory medicine. Anatomic p…
Non-Pathologists Altering U.S. Laboratory Industry
CEO SUMMARY: It’s an interesting contradiction. On one hand, most pathologists enthusiastically recognize the value that diagnostic testing services provide to the healthcare community. On the other hand, too often it is non-laboratorians who provide the investment capital and entrepren…
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