March 2024—While Dr. Seuss’ assertion that “the more that you read, the more things you will know” is generally accurate, it doesn’t address the fact that how information is presented affects comprehension, a truism that is not lost on Edward Klatt, MD, who knows whereof he speaks when it comes to sharing information on patient portals.
Read More »Pramana joins Proscia Ready
March 11, 2024—Proscia announced that Pramana, an artificial intelligence–enabled health technology company, is now a Proscia Ready partner.
Read More »Proscia gets FDA 510(k) clearance for Concentriq AP-Dx
Feb. 12, 2024—Proscia has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Concentriq AP-Dx diagnostic software for primary diagnosis.
Read More »Newsbytes
January 2024—When the medical microbiology laboratory at Yale-New Haven Hospital makes operational changes, it uses data analytics to monitor their impact. Yet the process of implementing laboratory analytics can be challenging.
Read More »CellNetix selects Proscia for digital pathology
Dec. 6, 2023—CellNetix Pathology and Laboratories and Proscia announced today that CellNetix has selected Proscia to digitize a portion of its volume of 1 million glass slides scanned per year.
Read More »Newsbytes
September 2023—The musician Frank Zappa said, “One size does not fit all,” a declaration that counters the claims of many clothing manufacturers and holds true for a variety of products, including, one could argue, digital scanners.
Read More »Newsbytes
August 2023—How often do pathology departments underbill insurance companies for their services? And how much money do they lose because of underbilling mistakes? A prototype dashboard at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center aims to answer those questions by using natural-language processing and machine-learning algorithms to flag pathology cases that are underbilled.
Read More »HNL selects Proscia, Leica for digital pathology
July 24, 2023—HNL Lab Medicine announced it has selected solutions from Proscia and Leica Biosystems to establish an advanced digital pathology practice.
Read More »Newsbytes
April 2023—At the medical center of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, patients are not screened for bladder cancer using urine cytology because the pathology department does not have the capability for such screening. But that may soon change, thanks to an organization focused on using digital pathology to increase the availability of pathology education resources in developing countries.
Read More »Agilent announces global distribution agreement with Proscia
March 10, 2023—Agilent Technologies announced a multiyear distribution agreement with Proscia to offer a comprehensive digital diagnostic pathology system, combining Agilent’s pathology staining solutions with Proscia’s Concentriq Dx enterprise pathology platform.
Read More »Newsbytes
November 2022—Bias—a type of prejudice that may go back to the beginning of humankind—has, in recent years, been the focus of attention with regard to developing machine-learning algorithms for clinical laboratory testing.
Read More »Proscia, Hamamatsu digital pathology collaboration
May 2022—Proscia and Hamamatsu Photonics are collaborating to accelerate the adoption of digital pathology. The agreement aims to increase the availability of the companies’ best-of-breed solution, which combines Proscia’s Concentriq platform and Hamamatsu’s NanoZoomer series of whole slide scanners, to laboratories. Users of Hamamatsu’s scanners can integrate their images and all other data into an open ecosystem centered around Concentriq. Under the agreement, customers will receive support with implementation.
Read More »Newsbytes
June 2022—Laboratories seeking a means to query their repository of archival anatomic pathology reports would do well to follow the advice of former tennis star Arthur Ashe: “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.”
Read More »Newsbytes
April 2022—Michelle Stoffel, MD, PhD, supports the use of Excel spreadsheets in some areas of laboratory medicine, but not necessarily as a laboratory workflow tool. It’s a realization she came to when, as a clinical informatics fellow at the University of Washington School of Medicine, she led the charge to revamp the workflow for the immunology laboratory’s Merkel cell antibody panel.
Read More »Newsbytes
July 2021—As the role of informatics in the practice of medicine continues to grow, so does the need to move formalized informatics education from the category of luxury to necessity, says Bruce Levy, MD, associate chief medical informatics officer at Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa., and professor and program director of the clinical informatics fellowship at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
Read More »Newsbytes
April 2021—The rewards of data analytics can be sizable, but so can the challenges of extracting data, transforming it, and loading it into the appropriate systems to facilitate the functionality.
Read More »Newsbytes
January 2021—It’s a maxim for any laboratory automation project: Don’t automate until you analyze—the efficiency of current processes, that is. And ARUP Laboratories’ chief operating officer, Jonathan Genzen, MD, PhD, has taken it to heart as the laboratory gears up for large-scale automation projects this year.
Read More »Newsbytes
New NovoPath CEO settled in and taking questions December 2020—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle recently spoke with Promise Okeke, who took the helm as CEO of NovoPath last summer. Here’s what Okeke had to say about NovoPath’s case distribution module, customer service, and the advantages of offering a best-of-breed system, among other topics.
Read More »Newsbytes
August 2020—At Sonora Quest Laboratories, working backward has been a key strategy for leaping forward. Little by little, the Arizona-based integrated laboratory system has been retracing paper trails and assessing established processes as part of an ambitious plan to eliminate paper use across its seven commercial laboratories, 28 hospital labs, and more than 75 patient service centers.
Read More »Newsbytes
R programming language gains steam in pathology labs April 2020—Among laboratories focused on expanding data analytics, the statistical programming language R has a loyal user base that is steadily growing. “There is a crew of us that are really trying to show the utility of R for laboratories,” says Stephen Master, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Laboratory Medicine and director of the Michael Palmieri Laboratory for Metabolic and Advanced Diagnostics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Read More »Newsbytes
January 2020—Pathologist Ron B. Schifman, MD, practices what he preaches and preaches about what others practice relative to implementing such computer-based test-utilization management techniques as soft stops, hard stops, and those that fall in between. In a 2019 American Association of Clinical Chemistry presentation on strategies and tactics for test-utilization management, and in an interview with CAP TODAY, Dr. Schifman offered insights into a variety of information technology-based interventions.
Read More »Newsbytes
August 2019—From concept to curriculum: PIER going strong five years later: In the five years since its launch, Pathology Informatics Essentials for Residents, or PIER, has continued to serve as a much-needed guide for pathology residents and program directors who otherwise would be navigating the waters of informatics training without a compass.
Read More »Newsbytes
June 2019—How Orchard Software is helping labs address transgender care: Establishing useful reference ranges for cisgender patients can be difficult, and for transgender patients it can be even more challenging. Add to this the desire to show the reference ranges for transgender patients as separate categories, distinct from the values for male and female patients, and the challenges mount for some medical centers. Read more.
Read More »Newsbytes
Building a lab or modernizing? Don’t forget the following March 2019—Building a new pathology lab or revamping an existing one gives laboratory decision-makers an opportunity to rethink information technology infrastructure and address persistent problems, plan for new technology, and improve processes.
Read More »Proscia partners with Asan Medical Center, Huron Digital Pathology, 4/17
April 2017—Proscia, a data solutions provider for digital pathology founded in 2014 by a team from Johns Hopkins, the Moffitt Cancer Center, and the University of Pittsburgh, and Asan Medical Center, a South Korean clinical and biomedical research institute, announced a partnership focused on developing tools that enable predictive medicine in the fight against cancer.
Read More »Newsbytes, 8/15
August 2015—How one pathologist made use of artificial intelligence: Like many pathologists, Jay J. Ye, MD, PhD, longed to spend less time preparing reports and more time interpreting slides and rendering diagnoses. Rather than dedicating half of his workday to what he considers secretarial tasks, the dermatopathologist wanted to devote the lion’s share of his hours in the lab toward applying the knowledge and skills he developed during his years of medical training and practice.
Read More »