2013 Corporate Sponsors

The Dark Report and The Executive War College staff wish to acknowledge the valuable support provided by those who sponsor speakers, sessions, and services that contribute immensely to the success of our event.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE BENEFACTORS

	Lifepoint Informatics is a leader in healthcare IT, serving the data connectivity, integration and communication needs of clinical laboratories, hospitals and health networks. Our mission is to help healthcare providers and health systems reduce costs and improve patient care through the use of advanced information technology solutions. Since 1999, Lifepoint Informatics has enabled over 200 hospitals, clinical labs and anatomic pathology groups to grow their market share and extend their outreach programs through the deployment of our ONC-ATCB Certified Web Provider Portal, comprehensive portfolio of ready-to-go EMR/EHR interfaces and additional products and services that support clinical lab outreach.
	Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, connecting payers, providers and patients in the U.S. healthcare system. Through the use of Emdeon’s comprehensive suite of products and services, which are designed to easily integrate with existing technology infrastructures, customers are able to improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase cash flow and more efficiently manage the complex revenue and payment cycle and clinical information exchange processes.
	XIFIN, the financial cloud computing company revolutionizing the business of healthcare diagnostics from patient to payment, delivers revenue cycle management solutions that enable diagnostic service providers to improve cash collections and gain efficiencies that substantially improve the bottom line.
	As a global leader in diagnostics and pharmaceuticals, Roche is focused on helping patients live longer, healthier lives. We are leading the way in developing tests and customized treatments that enable personalized healthcare solutions, tailored to the needs of unique groups of patients. For more information, visit Roche Diagnostics.
Â	Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. delivers market-leading diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions, designed and implemented to fulfill the business objectives of today’s healthcare leaders. Sunquest Laboratory is the leader in the market, enabling labs to operate with optimized performance and deliver quality diagnoses, while meeting regulatory and interoperability standards. Through outreach, we extend the lab to the community and provide the tools that turn information into intelligence.
Â	Atlas Medical provides an integrated suite of solutions for labs to manage & grow their businesses. Our customers have realized profitable growth and scale using ATLAS to drive up to 100% of their orders electronically. Our solutions support lab, AP and imaging order entry (clean orders) & results reporting, patient-centricity, robust EMR/EHR integration, mobile CPOE and much more.
Â	Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is a leading provider of in vitro diagnostic products and services, offering accurate, timely, and cost-effective solutions for screening, diagnosing, monitoring and confirming diseases. The company serves the global clinical laboratory and transfusion medicine community, and is committed to providing customers with products, services and process solutions to make labs more efficient in delivering the quality test results doctors and patients need.
	AND TO OUR CORPORATE SPONSORS…
Â	McKesson offers several innovative lab solutions designed to help improve your lab’s clinical and financial performance. Whether you are an independent specialty lab or hospital based lab, we have products and services that meet your needs. Our proven solutions help enable lab process improvement, decision support, revenue cycle management and much more that will not only assist in improving your operational efficiency today, but also can prepare you to meet the challenging demands of tomorrow.
Â	Halfpenny Technologies Inc. provides clinical laboratories, hospitals, health plans, health information exchanges and EHR vendors with a cloud based, secure, scalable, vendor-neutral clinical data exchange platform. Our proven track record of providing advanced features, rapid implementation, reliable technology infrastructure and LOINC mapping enables laboratories and hospitals to win new clients and better compete in the HITECH era; health plans to improve HEDIS reporting and STAR ratings, increase revenue and support population-based initiatives; and EHR vendors to include CPOE and results delivery in their solutions and meet Meaningful Use certification requirements.
	Abbott is a global leader in in vitro diagnostics and offers a broad range of innovative instrument systems and tests for hospitals, reference labs, molecular labs, blood banks, physician offices and clinics. With more than 22,000 customers in more than 100 countries, Abbott’s diagnostic products offer customers automation, convenience, bedside testing, cost effectiveness and flexibility. Abbott has helped transform the practice of medical diagnosis from an art to a science through the company’s commitment to improving patient care and lowering costs.
	Orchard’s Laboratory Information Systems are utilized by more than 1,200 laboratories including physician groups, clinics, hospitals, independent reference laboratories, and more. Orchard’s systems provide rules-based decision-support, ICD screening, and seamless integration.  Orchard also offers Microbiology and Anatomic Pathology systems along with various outreach solutions for remote access and EMR connectivity.
	Sysmex America, Inc. is the Americas headquarters for Sysmex Corporation (Kobe, Japan). A world leader in clinical diagnostic solutions, Sysmex offers fully automated hematology, coagulation and urinalysis instruments. These instruments directly connect to scalable laboratory information systems that deliver the highest possible level of clinical accuracy, quality and reliability. US operations include corporate offices in Lincolnshire, IL; a training center in Mundelein, IL; oversight of manufacturing reagent plants in Illinois and Brazil; a Latin American subsidiary, Sysmex Latin America & the Caribbean; and a Canadian subsidiary, Sysmex Canada, Inc.
	Management Insight Analytics offers the industry’s premier Dashboard for laboratory management.  Performance Insight™ Dashboard clients have realized immediate improvements in performance, quality and productivity. Contact us today for a demonstration of the power, flexibility, and ease of use that the Performance Insight™ Dashboard brings to your management team.
	Cardinal Health Laboratory Products is committed to serving labs as a trusted partner with a shared end goal—efficient, quality patient care. For 60 years, our tenured sales force has built a strong foundation of laboratory expertise by working closely with professionals like you. Our deep portfolio of products and relationships with leading manufacturers give us access to more choices at the best prices, which are then passed on to you. But beyond the items that come from a delivery truck, our team focuses on solutions to help laboratories run smoothly. Letting you get back to what matters most—your patients. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a Fortune 21 health care services company that improves the cost-effectiveness of health care.
	Slone Partners is a premier national recruitment firm that specializes in delivering top executive, management and sales talent for the diagnostic laboratory industry, with an additional expertise in molecular diagnostics and anatomic pathology. We have a twelve-year track record of working with cutting edge, demanding organizations to quickly attract and hire the best industry talent.
	From Collection to Confirmation – Thermo Fisher Scientific supplies analytical instruments and reagent solutions with an extensive menu for drugs of abuse screening, therapeutic drug monitoring, and immunosuppressant testing. Collection devices and quality control materials are also available to provide total solution for our customers.
Â	hc1.com is the ultimate healthcare cloud platform that will transform the way your lab manages client relationships. With hc1.com: ~ Your lab will win more clients and keep them for life by delivering the highest level of service. ~ Your employees will gain back hours of productivity with instant access to a 360-degree view of every provider. ~ Your executives will confidently make decisions with lab-specific business intelligence and real-time alerts.
	4medica partners with hundreds of laboratories to deliver intuitive, web-based applications that facilitate the flow of clinical information between laboratories, providers and healthcare institutions.  Developed by physicians with the specific needs of laboratories in mind, our performance-driven lab outreach applications offer a one-stop-shop for clinical, pathology and radiology test ordering and reporting. 4medica pathology package offers industry first pathology specific tools.  This gives customers a competitive edge by enabling them to streamline their business, quickly access information and ultimately improve patient care.  In addition, 4medica offers a fully integrated EHR so labs can help their contracted physicians rapidly achieve all stages of Meaningful Use. 4medica’s LabHub connectivity platform can also quickly and affordably connect labs to third party EMR and PM systems to further reduce expensive interface development and ongoing support costs.
Â	ELLKAY is a nationwide leader in healthcare connectivity, providing innovative, customizable solutions and unparalleled services for over a decade. With connectivity to 25,000+ physician practices across 450+ PM/EMR systems, we help laboratories increase sales, retain clients, and improve their bottom lines. Learn more at ELLKAY.com or call us at (201)-791-0606.
	Quadax is a national leader in Revenue Cycle Management, specializing in outsourced services and cloud-based software for laboratories and pathology organizations across the United States.  We help molecular diagnostics and genetic testing laboratories, independent and hospital outreach laboratories and pathology groups navigate their unique reimbursement challenges based on our deep industry expertise in these disciplines.  Quadax focuses on building long-term partnerships with our clients, clearly evidenced by our second-to-none reference client list.
Â	Rhodes Fast Platform provides laboratories with front-end registration and MPI. Rhodes Fusion bolts onto your existing billing system to provide automated eligibility checking, claims scrubbing, and an automated missing data collection process. Our solutions can consolidate data from multiple sources into a central lab repository for both clinical and financial analysis.
Â	Psyche Systems Corporation is a private, profit-driven software company that has focused exclusively on delivering laboratory information software to hospitals, clinics, reference, and private labs since 1976. It is this unwavering focus on serving our core customer base that has enabled Psyche to maintain strong customer loyalty and deliver on our commitment to high quality products and services. Psyche Systems’ laboratory information software are best-of-breed products designed to meet the specific needs of anatomic pathology, clinical, and molecular laboratories. We at Psyche work closely with our customer base during product development to ensure we are delivering the highest quality products and services at a competitive price.
Â	With more than 30 years’ experience, SCC Soft Computer is the first name in LIS performance and reliability. Recognized as the new standard in healthcare IT, SCC’s clinical information management system solutions for Laboratory, Genetics, Outreach, Blood Services, Radiology, and Pharmacy produce the highest outcomes in productivity, efficiency, and ROI.
	ARUP Laboratories is a leading national reference laboratory and a nonprofit enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. ARUP offers more than 3,000 tests and test combinations, ranging from routine screening tests to esoteric molecular and genetic assays serving clients across the United States.
	Chi Solutions is a healthcare consultancy focused on delivering cost savings, new revenue, and optimized operations for laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic departments. We are passionate, outcome-oriented individuals who bring exceptional experience and knowledge to the industry with expertise in strategic options, outreach, operations improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and management services.
	CareEvolve is the leader in outreach connectivity providing solutions for laboratories since 1999. CareEvolve enhances laboratory growth by providing an Internet-based order entry and results reporting solution for laboratory, pathology and radiology outreach businesses. Additionally, CareEvolve’s EMR connectivity solution can deliver results to and accept orders from virtually every electronic medical record on the market today. The CareEvolve solution appears on over 30,000 physician desktops each day and is in use by over 100 laboratories across the country.
	The ARx Group provides comprehensive laboratory billing services for hospital outreach laboratories, pathology groups, as well as independent laboratories. Our cutting edge Business Intelligence Dashboard provides laboratories with the most comprehensive real-time, actionable management reports available today. Our customers include hospital laboratory outreach programs, pathologists and independent laboratories nationwide.
Â	Since 2003, Northwestern Consulting Group has provided Healthcare organizations nationwide with cost-effective solutions, technical expertise and a commitment to responsive, affordable and flexible IT consulting services.  We deliver premiere services and solutions targeted specifically to our clients’ needs and challenges. We work with existing systems, software, workflows, and processes so that we enhance, not interrupt, your flow of business.
Â	Since 1996, NeTLIMS has been a leading global provider of Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) to hundreds of hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories worldwide. In the U.S. marketplace, NeTLIMS serves many commercial and hospital clinical laboratories including prestigious companies such as Quest Diagnostics. Our clients range from 1,500 to 300,000 requisitions daily.
	For over 30 years, ASPYRA® has provided the laboratory industry solid LIS solutions. The CyberLAB® LIS and CyberPath® AP System have provided our clients with a strong base with which to maintain and grow market share. The comprehensive feature sets along with its unrivaled scalability make ASPYRA systems the best choice for your lab.
	Since 1976, the principles of Kellison & Company have specialized in providing comprehensive billing services to a variety of laboratories, including; hospital-based clinical and AP labs, reference and molecular labs, and POLs. Our primary goal at Kellison is to bring your lab an improved cash flow, reduced administrative cost, and enhanced patient satisfaction through more efficient and effective billing management.
	Cerner Corporation has been in the laboratory business for over 30 years. Cerner’s laboratory information system offers clinicians comprehensive, fully integrated technology to automate the operational and managerial sides of the laboratory. Cerner’s family of laboratory solutions operates on the unified Cerner Millennium® architecture, seamlessly linking information to the patient’s electronic medical record. We handle the back end so you can focus on the business end; because we believe laboratory medicine should be fast, easy and accurate!
	Founded in 1922, ASCP is a medical professional society with more than 100,000 member board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologists, pathology residents and fellows, laboratory professionals, and students. ASCP provides excellence in education, certification, and advocacy on behalf of patients, pathologists, and laboratory professionals. Visit www.ascp.org for more information.
Â	Sprick Group is a management consultancy that has served the medical laboratory industry for more than 10 years. Backed by over 30 years of experience, the firm is recognized by industry leaders for advancing Lean techniques into the lab and pioneers in Lean facility design and Lean performance improvement engagements.
	Viewics provides Data Mining and Dashboarding Solutions for Clinical and Anatomic Pathology Laboratories. Viewics’ easy-to-use, intuitive solutions put timely and actionable information in the hands of those that need it across the laboratory. Delivered Software as a Service (SaaS), Viewics makes it easy on your IT team, budget and users.
	Milestone is a developer of pre-analytical products, digital imaging systems, and rapid tissue processors.  Our unique portfolio of products enable laboratory professionals toproduce quality results by standardizing and documenting tissue handling and preparation from the surgical suite to completion of processing.  Applying technology in new ways to produce safer working environments, better quality results, and reduce patient anxiety is at the heart of everything we do.
Â	ID/Positive™ is a family of products that enable labs to utilize barcode technology to identify and track tissue specimens throughout their lab processes, from receipt to archiving.  ID/Positive cassette lablelers and slide printers mark cassettes and slides with permanent, high-resolution barcodes that scan quickly and reliably, and withstand lab processes and protocols.  Using ID/Positive, labs can improve efficiencies, streamline and optimize their workflow, and eliminate errors caused by specimen misidentification. To learn more visit General Data Healthcare, Inc.Â
	Longhorn Lab Partners distributes two innovative “SaaS” solutions designed for the special needs of Laboratories: ScheduleReady renders the paper schedules and home-made excel spreadsheets a thing of the past and instead fully automates how you create, change, and communicate lab staff schedules within your laboratory. InspectionReady allows your supervisors, department heads, and lab administrators to visually see—at a glance—that all requirements for laboratory accreditation and licensure are met and kept up-to-date. Bring your Lab into the 21st Century and go digital with ScheduleReady™ and InspectionReady™
Â	THE DARK REPORT is a periodic clinical laboratory intelligence report founded in 1995 by R. Lewis Dark, publisher emeritus. The publication reports news about the latest facts and trends that affect medical laboratories of all kinds, clinical lab news, anatomic lab news, molecular lab news and more. The Dark Group, Inc., and The Dark Report Intelligence Service provide intelligence and strategic market analysis exclusive to CEOs, CFOs, COOs, pathologists, pathology groups, senior laboratory executives, and investment professionals. The Editor-in-Chief is Robert Michel.Become a member today!
Â	DARK Daily Laboratory and Pathology News: DARK Daily is an e-briefing service providing up-to-the-minute news of relevance for anyone working in diagnostic medicine, from clinical laboratories and pathology groups to lab industry suppliers and diagnostic technology companies. DARK Daily is part of The Dark Intelligence Group, Inc. and is dedicated to bringing useful business and management intelligence to laboratory managers, pathologists and diagnostic executives. Our recognized expertise in the strategic direction of laboratory medicine and the management of laboratories is available through DARK Daily, The Dark Report, the Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management, Lab Quality Confab, free White Papers, free lab product reviews, and strategic consulting services.

2013 Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities

Laboratory CEOs, directors, and managers know that The Executive War College is consistently the must-attend event of the year! This lab-industry leading conference presents 70+ speakers, each with cutting-edge industry innovations, best practices and developments, and networking opportunities with industry colleagues and vendors.

Keep your company in the forefront of this important audience! Use Executive War College as the place to put your best foot forward to an influential audience of executives, administrators, managers, pathologists, Ph.D.s—all actively looking for solutions, resources, and experts that can increase their lab organization’s profitability!

Take advantage of this opportunity to reach the increasingly inaccessible senior laboratory executives who are responsible for the decisions involving your products! Contact Jill Pierce (415) 454-7262 or email jillp@amcnetwork.com.

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We are pleased to recognize the ongoing support of our

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