CEO SUMMARY: Responding to its own data about consumer preferences, healthcare technology company Babson Diagnostics is pursuing a new hybrid model for blood draws that it believes brings together the best of clinical laboratories and retail pharmacies. Laboratory managers and pathologists may find opportunities in such an approach. TWO EMERGING TRENDS HAVE THE POTENTIAL to […]
Babson Diagnostics’ Hybrid Model Combines Quality, Convenience
Goal is to serve customers by collecting small samples in retail pharmacies
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXIX, No. 16 - November 21, 2022 Issue
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