Medting US CEO, Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS, assumed the one-year term as chair of the HIMSS board. “It is a great honor to serve as board chair-especially during this exciting time with healthcare reform and the use of health IT as an...

Cleveland Clinic last week unveiled Clevelandclinichealth.com, the hospital’s health-and-wellness portal and the latest in a string of online creations in the past year. More health-care institutions have tried to turn their...

Came across this press release on LinkedIn about Aurora Interactive.  Aurora recently also announced they power the new PathXchange and provide a universal viewer for the site. Aurora Interactive in line with its “Open...

In yet another step towards full adoption of digital pathology in the clinical workspace Aperio recently announced a complete solution for reading and IHC stains with integrated reporting for a wide variety of tissue types and...

The Los Angeles Times (7/9, Maugh) reports that the White House has announced that "Dr. Francis S. Collins, the geneticist who discovered the causes of half a dozen diseases, oversaw the government's efforts to map the human genome and...

 Several years ago I wrote up a "Nebulous Corpora Amylacea" I came across in a prostate biopsy.   Corpora amylacea are simply laminated luminal secretions that are commonly present in prostatic glands and increase in...