December 24, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 18 – December 24, 2018 Issue

Pathologists at the Houston Methodist health system created a website that tracks confirmed flu cases in real time. It is located at: https://flu.houstonmethodist.org and uses epidemiology data from the eight hospitals in the h…

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Digital Pathology Systems Will Create Opportunities

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 7 – May 15, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Advanced Pathology Associates, a 15-member private pathology group practice, had the distinction of generating data for the clinical study that Philips submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for review of its whole slide imaging system. Following the FDA’s decision t…

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Labs Can Earn Revenue Through Data Analytics – December 28, 2015

By R. Lewis Dark

CEO SUMMARY: There is a new buyer for lab test data, creating an opportunity for labs to build a new revenue stream. Medivo, Inc., of New York, describes itself as a healthcare data analytics company w…

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Newer, Smaller Analyzers Will Bring Big Data to Labs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories of all sizes are poised to become the source of much of a hospital or health system’s “big data.” At many academic center labs, greater use of genetic and molecular testing requires that more space and more staff be devoted to data management. A…

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Dealing with Realities of Changing Market

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 10 – July 21, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Swift transformation of the American healthcare system is causing financial challenges for those clinical labs and pathology groups that have been slow to react to these developments. At NorDx Laboratories in Scarborough, Maine, the team is following the classic five rules fo…

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MedTox, Cleveland Clinic Labs, Apollo PACS, Dell, British Columbia Health

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 3 – February 20, 2012 Issue

GENOME SEQUENCING TO BE OFFERED BY NORWAY IN NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN HERE’S A MILESTONE ON THE PATH TO PERSONALIZED MEDICINE. Norway is the first nation to announce that its national health system will incorporate whole genome sequencing. Cancer is the target of Norway’s f…

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“Primary-Care Pathology” One Goal at Beth Israel

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 15 – October 25, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In a pioneering collaboration, the pathology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, will work with GenomeQuest, Inc., to perform whole genome sequencing of tumor specimens. GenomeQuest will handle sequencing, assembly, and annota…

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Pathology Records Found At Massachusetts Dump

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 12 – August 23, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists at four Massachusetts hospitals got a powerful reminder recently that a breach of protected health information (PHI) can occur at any time for the most unexpected reason. Earlier this month, the Boston Globe reported that the pathology reports and patien…

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HIEs Boost Fortunes of Community Hospital Labs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 12 – August 23, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Regional health information exchanges (HIEs) are becoming more common. In Southern Indiana, the HealthLINC HIE is boosting the value that the community hospital laboratory provides to physicians. At the top of the list is expedited turnaround of laboratory test resul…

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Is Digital Path Imaging Ready for Prime Time?

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 9 – July 7, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Digital pathology imaging systems are finding uses in all phases of drug discovery (discovery, pre-clinical, clinical trials), as well as education, research, and clinical. One hurdle to widespread adoption of fully digitized, whole-slide pathology imaging systems is FDA clea…

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