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Toronto Pathologists Use Whole-Slide Imaging
CEO SUMMARY: It was the āfrozen section problemā 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 …
Is Digital Path Imaging Ready for Prime Time?
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…
Era of Digitized Pathology Systems Approaches
SURGICAL PATHOLOGISTS SHOULD GET READY! I predict that they will soon have the opportunity to purchase and use fully digital, automated pathology systems that can perform primary diagnosis. When that happens, it will mark the final cycle of the era when the principal method of diagnosing tissue was t…
GE, UPMC Create Company for Digital Path Imaging
CEO SUMMARY: Itās a new joint venture with the potential to transform surgical pathology. General Electric Healthcare has extensive experience at supporting physiciansā work flow with digitized imaging systems, plus ample experience with molecular bio-markers. The University of Pittsb…
Digitization of Pathology Is Making Steady Progress
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology digitization incorporates a greater scope of work-changing technologies than telepathology. It incorporates information technology, new diagnostic knowledge, and other engineering innovations to help pathologists move past glass and paper. Existing digital pathology…
Powerful Trends Reshaping Anatomic Path Profession
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT presents its newest biannual review of macro trends reshaping the anatomic pathology profession. These macro trends reveal a profession undergoing change and transformation on multiple fronts. New competitors are crowding into the market, payers and accreditin…
Full Pathology Digitization Is Becoming Feasible
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…
Many Trends in AP Spell Lots of Change Ahead
CEO SUMMARY: Every second year, THE DARK REPORT releases its list of key trends in anatomic pathology. These trends help shape an understanding about the state of the pathology profession. Our current list includes 11 identifiable trends. This is not an auspicious sign for pathologists wh…
More Lab Consolidation: LabCorp Buys US LABS
CEO SUMMARY: Following three years of rapid growth in specimen volume and revenues, US LABS has accepted a purchase offer from Laboratory Corporation of America. Both US LABSā fast growth and its sale to a national lab demonstrate that there is still opportunity in laboratory testingā…
Pathologist Activities Evolve In VAās āPaperlessā Hospitals
āWhen a hospital or laboratory goes āpaperlessā, itās no longer ābusiness as usualā for pathologists.ā āBruce Dunn, M.D. CEO SUMMARY: One outcome of the Veteran Administrationās (VA) ongoing effort to create a totally-integrated i…
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