Profile: Summit Pathology Merging Two Groups: When the Sum Is Greater Than the Parts

摘要

When Greeley Pathologists and Colorado Pathology Associates merged in 2007, the two groups had a number of hurdles to overcome. Although each served hospitals that were part of the same health system and shared a labora-tory information system (LIS) owned by the health system, the groups actually had an adversarial relationship, explained Michael Walts, M.D., who discussed the merger during Washington G-2 Reports' Laboratory Outreach Conference, held June 2-4, 2010, in Baltimore.