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The New York Times (9/24, A12, Tavernise, Subscription Publication) reports that the Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday that “a small portion of the rapidly expanding universe of mobile health applications” would be...
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) recently heard presentations on digital pathology and asked the following questions of the committee: What HHS guidance is needed for validation of whole slide imaging? Can the...
Medscape (subscription required) had an article last week called "GAO Suspects Monetary Motive in Physician In-House Pathology". Whoo. That's good. I thought the GAO may have been looking into this with a multi-part report for reasons other...
The recent public workshop on "Summit on Color in Medical Imaging" held in May in Silver Spring, MD has made presentations and webcast archive available online. Presentations are available from the International Color...
Dr. Tom Wheeler from the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) blogs over at Lab Line by the Doctor’s Doctor on Medscape (registration required). He has insightful pieces that speak to the practice and economics of laboratory medicine. This...
From DarkDaily.com This assumes, I think, that the physician offices actually paid for the initial hardware and software rather than a subsidy/donation/provided by a healthcare system or laboratory as many healthcare systems and laboratories...
