December 11, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 17 – December 11, 2017 Issue

To deal with a shortage of surgical pathologists in the United Kingdom, the British National Health Service (NHS) is looking at solutions, such as deployment of digital pathology systems. According to a story in Pharma Times, the NHS is negotiating with Roche Diagnostics…

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October 9, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 14 – October 9, 2017 Issue

Sept. 22 was the day that an agreement to sell Miraca Life Sciences (MLS) of Irving, Texas, was announced. Miraca Holdings will sell the anatomic pathology lab company to Avista Capital Partners. As part of the transaction, a new holding company, cal…

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July 17, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 10 – July 17, 2017 Issue

Here’s an update on Theranos, the troubled lab company that is struggling to stay alive. Once again, reporter John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal scooped his peers by reporting that Theranos has listed its corporate offices for lease. For lab companies shopping for …

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February 21, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue

Theranos, Inc., was in the news again recently. On Feb. 16, The Wall Street Journal reported that Theranos had just $200 million in cash. The information came from a conference call the discredited lab testing company conducted with its investors. During the call, Theranos officials …

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January 9, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 1 – January 9, 2017 Issue

December 27 was the 100th birthday of pathologist Jan Steiner, MD, FRCP (C), FCAP, remembered by many long-serving lab executives and clinical pathologists as one of the co-founders, along with James Root, PhD, of Chi Laboratory Systems in the late 1980s. This was a time when he was…

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New Lab Industry Trends Require Responses by Labs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII NO. 7 – May 11, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: One stark difference between the presentations delivered at last year’s Executive War College and this year’s presentations in New Orleans last week was near-unanimous recognition that the era of fee-for-service payment is soon to end! Speaker after speaker urged the…

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October 13, 2014 “Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 14 – October 13, 2014 Issue

Quality management systems (QMS) have made inroads in some of the organizations that accredit clinical laboratories in the United States to the requirements of CLIA. Last month, COLA of Columbia, Maryland, acknowledged that it had recertified to the standards of ISO 9001: 2008. The r…

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June 30, 2014 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 9 – June 30, 2014 Issue

Will microbiologists soon be testing a patient’s cellphone for clinical diagnostic purposes? Researchers at the University of Oregon recently conducted a study and determined that cellphones have a similar microbiome to the skin of the person who owns the device. The study determin…

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February 24, 2014 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 3 – February 24, 2014 Issue

Maybe the tough financial environment here in the United States is causing Sonic Healthcare Ltd., one of this nation’s bigger lab players, to be more interested in overseas lab testing opportunities. On February 18, its CEO, Colin Goldschmidt, M.D., told investors that “We contin…

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September 9, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 12 – September 9, 2013 Issue

bioMérieux is on the move. Last week it announced that it would pay $450 million to purchase privately-held BioFire Diagnostics of Salt Lake City, Utah. BioFire has a solid tech- nology base in molecular diagnostics. It developed and currently markets its FilmArray…

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