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Sonora Quest Receives Highest AZ Quality Award
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 2 – February 6, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After several years of intense effort to implement quality management systems and Six Sigma techniques throughout its organization, Sonora Quest Laboratories earned the Arizona Quality Program’s highest honor—the Governor’s Award for Quality. This is an accomplishment w…
Pinkus DermPath Earns ISO-9000 Certification
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 11 – August 1, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After learning about quality management systems at a recent Executive War College, the lab director at Pinkus Dermatopathology recognized how such techniques could be used in his lab to improve quality, reduce errors, and create a better working environment for both pathologi…
Nichols Diagnostics Stops Product Sales
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 10 – July 11, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s an odd story. One of the nation’s most respected names in diagnostics quietly ceases delivering products—and no one in the laboratory industry pays much attention. Last month, Nichols Institute Diagnostics, acknowledging production problems it has not yet resolved,…
Lab Innovators Point Way At Executive War College
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 8 – May 30, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Now in its tenth year, this Executive War College attracted a record crowd, including laboratory leaders from Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. The unexpected finding was that, along with the growing acceptance of Lean, Six Sigma and other quality management systems by…
Laboratories Lead Healthcare on Quality Systems
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XII No. 8 – May 30, 2005 Issue
IS THE REST OF HEALTHCARE CATCHING UP TO THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY when it comes to the use of quality management systems like ISO-9000, Six Sigma, and Lean? In the May 2, 2005 issue of Modern Healthcare, there’s a major story on quality management systems and how some hospitals are using sa…
Hey! We Are Halfway Through the 2000’s
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XII No. 2 – January 24, 2005 Issue
WITHOUT SPLITTING HAIRS ABOUT WHETHER THE NEW MILLENNIUM started on January 1, 2000 or January 1, 2001 (although official millennium celebrations heavily favored the former date), I would like to call your attention to an important fact: 2005 is the half-way point in the current decade. Look what ha…
Bi-Annual Look at Trends Reshaping Clinical Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 2 – January 24, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Among other things, we declare the end to the heyday of the independent commercial lab company which offers a broad test menu to all types of office-based physicians. In its place springs forth the specialty or niche testing laboratory. Small and focused on a specific number …
Change Beneath Surface Marks 2004 Lab Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 17 – December 13, 2004 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Presented here are THE DARK REPORT’S “Ten Biggest Lab Stories of 2004.” These are the events we consider most important to the lab industry during the year. However, in contrast to past years, 2004 lacked the types of blockbuster events which radically change and reshap…
Is Nation’s Best Quality Laboratory in Arizona?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No.13 – September 20, 2004 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Without much fanfare or public attention, one lab is achieving recognition for quality and service excellence possibly unmatched in the clinical laboratory industry. In 2003, Sonora Quest Laboratories received Arizona’s Pioneer Award for Quality—the first healthcare provi…
Molecular Diagnostics’ “Gap in Expectations”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 8 – June 7, 2004 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s Executive War College provided strong evidence that the twin trends of molecular diagnostics and Lean management methods are taking root within the laboratory industry. Each is a trend in its infancy. Molecular diagnostics will require considerable time before i…
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