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Louisiana Pathologists ‘Moonlight’ as Consultants
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 15 – October 29, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Few independent pathology groups have developed robust laboratory consulting businesses. But adopting that strategy has brought important benefits to Delta Pathology Group, LLC, of Shreveport, Louisiana. Not only has providing lab consulting services to cash-strapped hospital…
Allina Opens State-of-the-Art Central Laboratory Facility
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 17 – December 19, 2011 Issue
THIS MONTH, THE NATION’S NEWEST “designed from scratch” clinical laboratory facility began operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the central laboratory of Allina Hospitals & Clinics and its design is rooted in Lean and similar process improvement and workflow principle…
Considering Full versus Partial Adoption of Digital Pathology
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 17 – December 19, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Digital pathology is considered to be one of the more disruptive technologies now finding acceptance in anatomic pathology. Since founding Aperio Technologies, Inc., of Vista, California, in 1999, President Dirk G. Soenksen, M.S., M.B.A., has been in the forefront of this imp…
Pathology Across State Lines and National Borders
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVIII No. 9 – July 5, 2011 Issue
WE ARE SWIFTLY APPROACHING THE DAY when community hospital-based pathologists will be able to serve hospitals and physicians located across state lines with the same ease that they serve hospitals and office-based physicians in their own cities and regions. In the same vein, at least two major acade…
Crossing State Lines With Digital Pathology
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 9 – July 5, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It is predicted that use of digital pathology will create new care models in the profession of anatomic pathology. An early example of this trend can be found in Bellingham, Washington. Here, the 10 pathologists of Northwest Pathology are using a digital pathology sy…
Local Labs Have Opportunities To Increase MC Patient Access
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 3 – February 23, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Although the nation’s two largest laboratory companies have achieved a dominant managed care position, opportunities remain for regional labs to do more business with managed care plans. Two experts provide an update of managed care pricing trends for labo…
Era of Digital Pathology Steadily Approaches
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XV No. 9 – July 7, 2008 Issue
IMMEDIATELY AFTER GENERAL ELECTRIC ANNOUNCED its partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) on June 5 to develop a fully integrated digital pathology system, we took a closer look at how some pioneering pathologists are using digital imaging …
Toronto Pathologists Use Whole-Slide Imaging
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 9 – July 7, 2008 Issue
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 …
Full Pathology Digitization Is Becoming Feasible
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 15 – October 29, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Advances in computer hardware, software and support systems such as scanners are bringing the era of full pathology digitization closer to reality. Last week, in San Diego, California, an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred gathered to learn how laboratories, hospitals, and…
Anatomic Pathology’s Coming Revolution: Same Day Diagnoses
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 5 – April 2, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Anatomic pathology has been conducted the same way for 100 years—but no longer at the University of Miami. Pathologists there are using microwave technology to cut processing speed by 90% and improve workflow. By producing faster diagnoses, the lab can report results on 80%…
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