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For Molecular Tests, Evaluate All Factors
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 8 – May 30, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: When this hospital lab adopted molecular screening tests for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoaea, physicians soon noticed a change in the rate of false positives. In researching the performance of the molecular assays compared to cultures, pathologists at this lab…
Phlebotomist Gibson Steals Patient’s Identity
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 5 – March 28, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was a case of a well-liked lab worker acting in rogue fashion to steal and use the identity of a patient to commit financial fraud. Within laboratories, employees in phlebotomy, accessioning, data entry, coding, billing, and collections often have access to sensitive patie…
“February 23, 2004 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 3 – February 23, 2004 Issue
There’s a new player offering clinical diagnostic services in oncology. Genomic Health, Inc., based in Redwood City, California, is now accepting specimens. Last month, its laboratory received all the regulatory clearances required to conduct business. The company’s proprietary technology is inco…
“State of Industry” Report On Molecular Diagnostics
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 10 – July 28, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Enterprise Analysis Corporation has launched an ambitious survey that will include 150 laboratories performing molecular testing in the United States. Last week it released information about the first 51 labs contacted in this effort. The survey provides an intriguing look at…
Focus Technologies Offers SARS Test to Clinicians
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 7 – May 27, 2003 Issue
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Focus Technologies reference laboratories of Cypress, California announced the development of a “first-generation, real-time PCR test” designed to detect the presence of the coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). “Focus devel…
Specialty Laboratories, IMPATH, Roche, Abbott Laboratories, Celera Diagnostics
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 6 – May 5, 2003 Issue
SPECIALTY LABORATORIES RESTORING STABILITY IN SPECIMEN VOLUME IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT COMPETITORS of Specialty Laboratories, Inc. have been willing to spread a variety of rumors about the laboratory company, given its well-publicized troubles with government regulators last …
Several Major Surprises Mark Events of 2002
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 17 – December 9, 2002 Issue
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…
Patent Access Limits Rapid HIV Testing in USA
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 1 – January 7, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Diagnostic manufacturers will begin to face the same controversy over public access to diagnostic testing technology that has dogged pharmaceutical companies in recent years. Public health officials and the military are unhappy with how Bio-Rad and its HIV-2 licensees have fa…
Sunquest, Towers Perrin, Aetna, Quest Diagnostics, Roche Diagnostics, Careside
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 16 – November 26, 2001 Issue
SUNQUEST REAFFIRMS LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO COPATHPLUS PRODUCT EXPECT A FASCINATING competitive battle in the market for anatomic pathology software now that Cerner Corporation is acquiring Dynamic Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (DHT) DHT is the developer an…
DNA Diagnostics Market, Kaiser Permanente, TriPath Imaging, LifeScan
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 1 – January 15, 2001 Issue
DNA DIAGNOSTICS MARKET GROWTH TO BE DOMINATED BY PCR TECHNOLOGY FOR THE YEAR 2000, total DNA diagnostic technology sales were estimated to be $517 million. By 2005, this number should increase to $771 million, a growth rate of 8.4% per year. This is the conclusion of Laura Roth, author of …
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