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Sonic Makes Big Play In AP With CBL Path Buy
CEO SUMMARY: With the announcement that it will purchase CBL Path, Inc., Sonic Healthcare, Ltd., becomes the latest public laboratory company to buy a sizeable presence in the national anatomic pathology (AP) marketplace. For CBL Path, founded in 2003 by ex-Dianon executives and …
EMR Donations, Client Bill Issues in Anatomic Path
CEO SUMMARY: In today’s market for anatomic pathology services, local pathology practices are facing tough competition from national pathology companies that are quite aggressive at using EHR donations and discounted client bill arrangements to win new clients. Attorney Jane Pi…
Predict 2010 To Be Busy For Lab Owners & Buyers
CEO SUMMARY: Along with a recovering economy, the possibility of an increase in the capital gains tax rate for 2011 may encourage owners of clinical labs and anatomic pathology companies to sell their businesses during 2010. That could make 2010 a busy year for laboratory…
Pathology, Inc. Sells Equity to Raise Capital
CEO SUMMARY: In looking how to propel its business to the next level, the partners at Pathology, Inc., opted not to sell their pathology group practice. Instead, they chose to raise capital by selling equity in their company to a group of investors. In this exclusive interview, executives…
Using Lean at Henry Ford Transforms Pathology TAT
CEO SUMMARY: Long-standing work flow traditions in anatomic pathology provide fertile ground for improvement with Lean and similar process improvement methods. That was the case at Henry Ford Health System, where empowered teams in the pathology laboratory employed the principles…
Siemens, BioImagene, Clarient University of Pennsylvania, Mayo Clinic
SIEMENS INVESTS IN DIGITAL PATHOLOGY, BUYS STAKE IN BIOIMAGENE IMAGING AND RADIOLOGY GIANT SIEMENS just made an interesting investment in digital pathology systems. On October 16, Siemens Venture Capital (SVC) revealed that it had purchased…
Pathology Boot Camp to Address Three Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Anatomic pathology groups across the nation must develop effective strategies to address challenges in pricing, intensifying competition, and expensive new technologies. That’s the assertion of three pathology practice administrators who have organized a boot camp in Dallas…
iTunes Business Model For Digital Path Scans
CEO SUMMARY: If BioImagene’s CEO is to be believed, the company is ready to deliver a digital pathology system that is robust and affordable, even in settings with just two or three pathologists. One key to the BioImagene strategy is “per scan” pricing that avoids the need for upfro…
Is Digital Path Imaging Ready for Prime Time?
CEO SUMMARY: Digital pathology imaging systems are finding uses in all phases of drug discovery (discovery, pre-clinical, clinical trials), as well as education, research, and clinical. One hurdle to widespread adoption of fully digitized, whole-slide pathology imaging systems is FDA clea…
Creative Destruction in Anatomic Pathology
PATHOLOGISTS MAY BE FAMILIAR with the economic theory of “creative destruction.” They are aware of how “creative destruction” is at work transforming and reshaping both the anatomic pathology marketplace and the clinical lab testing marketplace. Economist Joseph Schumpeter first used the ter…
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