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Pioneering DP Companies Ended Up Being Acquired
CEO SUMMARY: One reason why the adoption of a full digital pathology solution has lagged behind expectations may be attributed to the fact that four of the pioneering companies did not survive as independent businesses. They were sold and not all the new owners continued investing and dev…
Fujifilm Buys Inspirata’s Digital Pathology Assets
CEO SUMMARY: Fujifilm’s acquisition of the digital pathology technologies and clients of Inspirata marks the departure of one early entrant into the digital pathology market. At the same time, executives from Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation discuss why the company is incr…
GE Healthcare Sells Omnyx to Inspirata
CEO SUMMARY: Now that the FDA has cleared a digital pathology for use in primary diagnosis, interest in DP is building. Inspirata purchased Omnyx and its assets because the Omnyx Dynamyx digital pathology software has strong features that could be integrated into Inspirata’s digital pat…
GE, UPMC Ending Omnyx, Their Digital Pathology Joint Venture
IN RECENT WEEKS, pathology laboratory clients of the Omnyx digital pathology system learned that the joint venture is ending. Company officials tell these customers that their digital pathology systems will continue to receive service. Omnyx was formed in 2008 as a joint venture bet…
New Company Ready to Heat Up Slow Digital Pathology Market
CEO SUMMARY: There’s a new competitor in the digital pathology marketplace with ambitious plans to deliver a fully-integrated pathologist workflow solution. Inspirata, Inc., of Tampa, Florida, made its debut in March at an international pathology conference. In this exclusive i…
February 3, 2014 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last month, it was announced that Solstas Lab Partners of Greensboro, North Carolina, had agreed to be sold to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. The sales price is $570 million and financial analysts on Wall Street estimate that the annual revenue at Solstas Lab Partne…
January 13, 2014 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Currently there are 119 operational health information exchanges (HIEs) in the United States. This number is 58% greater than the 75 HIEs that were operational in 2010. These numbers were reported in Health Affairs. The study was authored by researchers at the University of Michigan. Th…
October 21, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There is progress on the integration of digital pathology systems and proprietary algorithms designed to help pathologists make diagnoses. This month, Visiopharm and Omnyx LLC, announced a joint venture. On its own, in Europe last year, Visiopharm earned a CE mark fo…
Why Toronto Is Site of Global Digital Path Center
CEO SUMMARY: GE Healthcare and Omnyx chose Canada to be the location of their new Global Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence (PICOE). PICOE’s mission is to demonstrate that digital pathology can improve patient outcomes in a cost-effective manner. GE and Omnyx will use PI…
February 7, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
In Nigeria, the kidnap of a professor of pathology at the University of Uyno last month caused work stoppages by academic union members in protest of the government’s failure to protect medical faculty from the recent rash of kidnappings. Pathologist Dr. Memfin Ekp…
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Volume XXXII, No. 9 – June 23, 2025
In part one of an analysis about the state of AI in clinical laboratories, The Dark Report explores how frontline workers, especially younger ones, are using AI tools like ChatGPT far more than lab leaders. Recent reports elsewhere in the business world show executives underestimate staff AI use, raising concerns about a leadership gap in tech adoption. Clinical lab leaders must get more familiar with AI use cases. Also, in this issue of The Dark Report, there is discussion on how Medicaid cuts may affect clinical labs, an examination of the lab industry fallout from CLIAC termination, an analysis of AMP’s reports that provide crucial insights for Hiring Managers, and notes that regional health systems are new dominant players in M&A.
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