Interesting things are happening in the commercial clinical lab testing market internationally. In New Zealand, district health boards continue a decadeslong trend of squeezing commercial lab companies with the goal of reducing laboratory testing costs and eliminating redundancies. Currently the district health boards (DHBs) of Capital Coast, Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa—representing the the lower part of New Zealand’s north island—are evaluating proposals to consolidate all community and hospital laboratory services into one service entity.
January 26, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking News
Items too late to print, too early to report
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXII No. 2 - January 26, 2015 Issue
- Tags: cap, clinical lab, clinical lab test, clinical lab testing, clinical laboratories, DarkDaily, genetic test, genetic tests, genomics, hie, hospital laboratory, hospital laboratory services, integrated diagnostic, integrated diagnostics, lab test, lab testing, laboratories, laboratory service, laboratory services, laboratory test, laboratory testing, Theranos
