Partners Consolidates AP Using Common IT System

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 9 – June 30, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Partners HealthCare of Boston, Massachusetts, is creating a single informatics platform for CP and AP across all six of the hospitals that it operates. It will replace 19 different pathology systems currently used at six sites with just seven integrated pathology systems. As …

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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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Grand River Hospital, Psyche Systems, Siemens Healthcare, Bio-Rad, Home Test Direct

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 6 – April 23, 2012 Issue

HOSPITAL LAB CLOSED, STAFF EVACUATED AFTER LAB SPECIMEN SPILL IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT A HOSPITAL LABORATORY needs to be closed and decontaminated following a lab accident. Yet that is what happened on April 2 at 495-bed Grand River Hospital in Kitchner, Ontari…

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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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Surprises in KLAS Rating of Anatomic Path Systems

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 1 – January 18, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: KLAS Research published its Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards in December and ranked Psyche WindoPath the top system in two categories. KLAS, which rates as many as 56 categories of healthcare software and professional services products in its annual report, does not provid…

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Aperio, Cerner Interface Digital Path and Path LIS

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 4 – March 16, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For pathologists watching the market acceptance of digital imaging and digital pathology systems, another milestone has been reached. The nation’s largest health IT companies are beginning to develop interfaces between their anatomic pathology laboratory informatio…

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Is Digital Path Imaging Ready for Prime Time?

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 9 – July 7, 2008 Issue

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…

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GE, UPMC Create Company for Digital Path Imaging

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 8 – June 16, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s a new joint venture with the potential to transform surgical pathology. General Electric Healthcare has extensive experience at supporting physicians’ work flow with digitized imaging systems, plus ample experience with molecular bio-markers. The University of Pittsb…

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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…

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Free of IMPATH, Tamtron Ready For A New Future

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 2 – February 2, 2004 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Tamtron’s fortunes look much brighter with its acquisition by IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., a healthcare information vendor with existing products for radiation oncology, medical oncology, and urology. IMPAC’s strategy is to create a “total solution” for oncology. That…

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