CEO SUMMARY: The clinical laboratory industry’s “Golden Era” is gone forever. Replacing it is a healthcare environment best described as “Darwinian.” It is now survival of the fittest, as hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories struggle to reinvent themselves. Case studies at this year’s Executive War College can be considered adaptive mutations spawned in response to […]
A Fable For Our Times: Lab Industry’s Golden Era
Good times are past and gone, replaced by constant change, risk, and uncertainty
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume V No. 6 - May 4, 1998 Issue
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