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Pathology Groups Should Plan to Use Digital Pathology
WHEN AN ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY GROUP CONSIDERS IMPLEMENTING digital pathology and whole-slide imaging (WSI) for primary diagnosis, it must identify and understand a range of challenges and opportunities. “Every pathology group should start by considering how it will use the related technologies of a…
Expert Sees Pros, Cons In DP and WSI Systems
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 13 – September 23, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Now that the FDA has cleared two digital pathology systems for use in primary diagnosis, a growing number of pathology groups are taking up the question of whether and when they should adopt and use a digital pathology system and whole slide imaging. One pathologist with hand…
Outside US, Digital Path Moves Ahead Rapidly
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 10 – July 22, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Implementation of digital pathology and whole-slide imaging systems in the United States lags behind that of other countries for two reasons. One is a more acute shortage of pathologists in those countries and the other is a less restrictive regulatory environment. In some lo…
What’s Coming Next for Anatomic Pathologists?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVI No. 7 – May 20, 2019 Issue
INTERESTING THINGS ARE UNFOLDING within the profession of anatomic pathology. If the adage of “follow the money” applies to understanding why things happen, then recent events support some surprising conclusions. Take the news reported in this issue of The Dark Report that PathGroup …
GE Healthcare Sells Omnyx to Inspirata
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 3 – February 12, 2018 Issue
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…
TOP 10 LAB STORIES OF 2017
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 17 – December 11, 2017 Issue
1. CMS Sticks by Decision to Deeply Cut Medicare Part B Lab Test Fees SHORT OF A MIRACLE, the clinical laboratory industry is less than three weeks from the single most financially-disruptive event of the past 30 years. On Jan. 1, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service…
December 11, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 17 – December 11, 2017 Issue
To deal with a shortage of surgical pathologists in the United Kingdom, the British National Health Service (NHS) is looking at solutions, such as deployment of digital pathology systems. According to a story in Pharma Times, the NHS is negotiating with Roche Diagnostics…
USC’s Clive Taylor, MD, Talks Digital Path, WSI
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 10 – July 17, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: The FDA’s clearance of the first digital pathology system for use in primary diagnosis will be a disruptive force for pathologists in the coming years. At the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, pathologist Clive Taylor, MD, predicts that the benefits of …
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…
FDA Clears Digital Path for Primary Diagnosis
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 6 – April 24, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Proponents of digital pathology systems and whole slide imaging achieved a milestone on April 12 when the FDA cleared the Philips digital pathology system for sale in the United States. Now pathologists can use the system to perform primary diagnoses and get paid for those pr…
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