Sep 8, 2010 | Instruments & Equipment, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Management & Operations
Advanced histology staining equipment will capture a greater market share There’s good news for anatomic pathologists in the forecast from one expert watching the U.S. market in equipment for clinical diagnostics. According to Winny Tan, Ph.D, a Senior Analyst with Frost & Sullivan, the increasing rate of cancer incidence in the U.S. will drive robust growth in tissue-based diagnostics. She predicts that revenues from that segment will more than double by 2016, growing from the $1.029...
Mar 9, 2007 | Laboratory Hiring & Human Resources, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Physicians continue to migrate toward larger group practice settings. Consolidation of physician group practices continues, although the pathology specialty seems to be resisting this trend. The American Medical Association reported in 2005 that about 40% of physician groups had 3 or 4 physicians, but those groups employed only about 11% of all group-practice positions. Conversely, only 1.4% of these groups had 100 or more doctors, but they represented almost 32% of the 247,000 physicians in...
