Purchased Clinical LAS Systems

The following is an update on Hospitals and Commercial Laboratories who have purchased LAS systems (outside Japan) and the vendors who are supplying them.

Autolab, Etobicoke, Canada

Source: Glen Holmes, 1-708-821-2715

• MDS Laboratories, Etobicoke, Canada

• Metro McNair Laboratories, Vancouver, Canada

• Columbia HCA, various locations*

• Toronto Medical Laboratories, Toronto, Canada*

Boehringer Mannheim, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Source: Georg Fielder, 1-317-845-2000

• South Bend Medical Foundation, South Bend, IN, USA

Coulter Corporation, Miami, FL

• Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Korea

• Hanly Moir Pathology, Sydney, Australia

• Corning Clinical Laboratories, St. Louis, MO, USA

• Corning Clinical Laboratories, Denver, CO, USA

• Beth Israel Hospital, New York, NY, USA (hematology installed, chemistry in progress)

• ACM Laboratories, Rochester, NY, USA

• Barnes & Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA USA**

• Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY USA**

Lab Interlink, Omaha, NE, USA

• University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

• Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA, USA*

• Aultman Hospital, Canton, OH, USA

Estimates of installed systems inside Japan

• Hitachi – 70

• Sysmex – 48

• Toshiba/IDS – 19

• Panasonic/Toshiba – 4