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Table 10 - Assets and Capabilities
Provide healthcare connectivity solutions to >250,000
clinician and hospital accounts
157 million test requisitions processed in 2015
Strong logistics capabilities
• make > 7,500 stops daily
• approximately 3,500 courier vehicles
• > 25 aircraft serving the U.S.
One of the largest medical and scientific staffs
in the industry to provide interpretive consultation
• > 650 M.D.s and Ph.D.s, many of whom
are recognized leaders in their field
• genetic counselors
Mobile teams to support different business initiatives
• paramedical examiners
• health and wellness professionals, including nursing
professionals
National access to patient testing, with most
extensive network in the U.S.:
• >2,300 of our own patient service centers
• >4,200 phlebotomists in physician offices
Industry-leading test menu Access to >20 billion patient data points from
test results delivered over past decade
Innovation. We are a leading innovator in diagnostic information services. We continue to introduce new tests and
services, including many with a focus on personalized and targeted medicine. Our capabilities include discovery, technology
development and clinical validation of diagnostic tests. We develop tests at our laboratories, such as Quest Diagnostics Nichols
Institute and Athena Diagnostics.
We successfully transfer technical innovations to the market through our in-house expertise and our relationships with
technology developers, including the academic community, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, emerging medical
technology companies and others that develop and commercialize novel diagnostics, pharmaceutical and device technologies.
We search for new opportunities and continue to build a robust pipeline of new solutions. Through our strengths in assay
development and the commercialization of test services, we believe that we are the partner of choice for developers of new
technologies and tests to introduce their products to the marketplace.
We seek innovations and solutions that help healthcare providers care for their patients through better testing for
predisposition, screening, monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment choices. We seek to develop innovations and
solutions that help to determine a patient's genotype or gene expression profile relative to a particular disease and its potential
therapies, because they can help healthcare providers to determine a patient's susceptibility to disease or to tailor medical care
to an individual's needs - such as determining if a medication might be an optimum choice for a particular person, or tailoring
the right dosage once the proper medicine is prescribed. In addition, we aim to develop holistic solutions responsive to
challenges that healthcare providers and patients face, by developing solutions of multiple tests, information and services
focused on specific clinical challenges, and taking advantage of the latest informatics capabilities. We also look for innovations
and solutions that are less invasive than currently available options, to increase the choices that healthcare providers and
patients have for the collection of diagnostic samples.
We have expertise with laboratory developed tests for companion and complementary diagnostics, and can offer an
array of assets and services to support the development of companion diagnostics, including our robust collection of laboratory
data and access to the company's patient service centers.
QUEST DIAGNOSTICS 2015 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K