July 2008

Toronto Pathologists Use Whole-Slide Imaging

CEO SUMMARY: It was the “frozen section problem” and productivity issues that led pathologists at the three-hospital University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto to implement a fully-digital pathology system with whole-slide imaging in 2006. Use of digital, whole-slide images makes it faster to report results to the surgeon, while making it easier to involve colleagues […]

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Is Digital Path Imaging Ready for Prime Time?

Digital Pathology / Robert Michel

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 clearance that allows the use of this technology for primary diagnosis. Executives at two of

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July 7, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

GI Pathology, PLLC, of Memphis, Tennessee, announced that it has contracted to be a national gastrointestinal (GI) pathology laboratory provider with CIGNA HealthCare of Hartford, Connecticut. It also has a five year, national provider contract with UnitedHeathCare. SPENDING CUTS ADVERSELY AFFECT CANADIAN LABS Widely-publicized errors in pathology services have caught the attention of the Canadian

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