Kathleen A. Murphy PhD

Kathleen A. Murphy, PhD, is a laboratory scientist turned executive and entrepreneur. The Profit Machine in the Hospital Basement: Turning Your Lab into an Economic Engine is her first book. Kathy is the former chief executive officer of Chi Solutions, Inc., now an Accumen Company, a clinical laboratory management and consulting firm. She now serves as the Senior Growth Advisor in the new organization. Chi Solutions is founded on the principle that hospitals can compete with large national and regional laboratories through consolidation, regionalization, and outreach. Every laboratory has spare capacity that it can leverage to secure additional test volume from the community. With a competitive offering in place, laboratory outreach programs that are operated and financed as serious business entities can match or outpace Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, and similar competitors. An early adopter of the laboratory outreach strategy, Kathy started two successful programs in Boston in the 1980s and 1990s. By sharing more than three decades of knowledge about running a profitable outreach business, she has devoted her career to teaching hospitals how to commercialize their laboratories to capture new revenue and counteract declining reimbursements. Kathy s personal interests include gardening, photography, travel, and volunteer work. She serves on the Board of Trustees and the Foundation Board for her undergraduate alma mater, Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.