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 it exerts substantial impact on labs across the country. In contrast, Lean management […]
Molecular Diagnostics’ “Gap in Expectations”
Offering molecular tests to clinicians continues to be a financial challenge
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XI No. 8 - June 7, 2004 Issue
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