Blogs

Earlier this year I started a now 3-part series on the “State of Digital Pathology Today” with part 1 in January and part 2 in February. Since that time many changes have and are taking place in both the pathology market as a whole and...

DURHAM, N.C. — Before scrubbing in on a recent Tuesday morning, Dr. Selene Parekh, an orthopedic surgeon here at Duke Medical Center, slipped on a pair of sleek, black glasses — Google Glass, the wearable computer with a built-in camera and...

Source: Dark Daily 7 May 2014 Prenatal testing, the most popular in China, is banned, affecting current projects at providers—another lesson for laboratories in how quickly things change Genetic testing has been halted in China. This...

On February 6, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final amendment to both CLIA 1988 and HIPAA 1996 rules in order to allow patients direct access to their lab results. In CLIA Final Rule 42 CFR 493.1291,...

Dr. Bruce Friedman @ Lab Soft News has had a couple of interesting posts and recent comments on the digital pathology space from his perspective as a longtime pathology informaticist and observations on digital pathology in early 2014: Cloud...

Meeting Unmet Patient Needs  Timed well with millions of Americans becoming insured under the ACA’s new healthcare coverage, the number of retail clinics is rapidly growing to meet patient needs. With an anticipated shortage of primary care...