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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Ohio State University Medical Center Inks Pact To Adopt Digital Pathology

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 11 – August 15, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For years, the adoption of digital pathology has lagged behind the predictions of its advocates. That has encouraged one digital pathology company—Inspirata, Inc., of Tampa—to come up with a different business strategy designed to help anatomic pathology labs address the …

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New company ready to heat up slow digital pathology market

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 11 – August 3, 2015 Issue

IN THE 2000S, DIGITAL PATHOLOGY WAS THE HOT NEW TECHNOLOGY that held great potential to transform anatomic pathology in myriad ways, not the least of which was an essential tool to streamline pathologist workflow while suppor…

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New Company Ready to Heat Up Slow Digital Pathology Market

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 11 – August 3, 2015 Issue

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…

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PathCentral Launches Sale of New Anatomic Pathology LIS

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 9 – July 8, 2013 Issue

THERE IS A NEW PLAYER in the market for anatomic pathology laboratory information systems (APLIS). This gives pathology groups a new option when it is time to upgrade or replace their existing APLIS. It also brings a new competitor into the existing market for anatomic pathology (AP) software. In re…

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Digital Pathology Enables UCLA–China Lab Connection

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 10 – July 16, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Digital pathology holds the promise of interconnecting pathologists around the globe in ways that advance diagnostic accuracy and improve patient outcomes. One pioneering digital pathology collaboration involves the pathology departments at the medical schools of the Universi…

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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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How Digital Pathology Helps Pathologists Deliver Added Value

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 12 – September 6, 2011 Issue

“Pathologists have the opportunity to take on a new clinical role as the integrator of all that digital pathology information, in combination with the patient’s other clinical data collected from a wide variety of sources.” —Dirk G. Soenksen, M.S., M.B.A., Founder…

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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…

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Why Toronto Is Site of Global Digital Path Center

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 7 – May 23, 2011 Issue

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…

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