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Digitizing Pathology

This feature article discusses how digital pathology is rapidly gaining strength as an essential technology for use in clinical healthcare, academic research, and drug development.

Digital Pathology System Case Study

Kalmar County Hospital in Kalmar, Sweden bylines this article about their selection and implementation of a digital pathology system to improve ergonomics for their pathologists and facilitate networking with other pathology labs.

Digital Decisions

This bylined article discusses how local tissue response to treatment is a key diagnostic component at every stage of drug development, and how the adoption of digital pathology leads to more precise and faster decisions across discovery, preclinical, and clinical trials.

Digital Pathology Enhances Hospital's Tumor Board Meetings

This bylined article highlights how a digital pathology platform successfully helped Laboratory Diagnostics Medical Group provide its pathologists with a solution to better manage the tumor-board experience and provide more efficient pathology services.

Scripps' Tumor Board Finds Value in Digital Imaging of Slides: Surprise Hit with Other Participating Physicians

The Pathology Department at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, describes how they are preparing for a future in which digital pathology systems will encourage more interaction with referring physicians and foster a move toward real-time continuous flow.

Digital Pathology in Drug Discovery and Development: Multisite Integration

This bylined article discusses how digital pathology is transforming global pharmaceutical research by enabling data sharing to integrate dispersed pharma pathology labs around the world. The article also reviews the stages of multisite digital pathology integration in large pharmaceutical companies.

Right Time, Right Nurse

The director of nursing resource management at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI is interviewed in this feature article about how the hospital implemented an open shift management program to proactively involve staff in the scheduling process.

Solid Citizen in the Lab: Digital Imaging

Digital pathology experts track the uptake of digital pathology and discuss how the transition to digital is filled with opportunities and challenges.

Choose Your Shift

This bylined cover article profiles Garden City Hospital's successful launch of a rewards-based workforce management system which provided a return on investment by reducing labor costs, eliminating agency spending, empowering the existing workforce and promoting a culture of collaboration.

Right on Schedule

This feature article discusses how web-based shift scheduling tools have been well received by nurses, resulting in improved efficiencies and a decrease in costly contract agency costs, thanks in part to an incentive program called ShiftRewards in which nurses earn reward points every time they fill an open shift.

Three Trends Now Fueling Wider Adoption of Digital Pathology

This feature article highlights how one CEO believes three trends are working together to accelerate the adoption of digital imaging and digital pathology systems by pathology laboratories across the nation.

What's the 11 p.m. - 7 a.m. Shift Worth?

In this feature article, a large health system in Georgia and a vendor CEO discuss the implementation and benefits of open shift management technology, which resulted in $2 million in savings by providing enterprise transparency into the organization's open shifts.

Talk to Me -- AP, Radiology Meet in Virtual Middle

This feature article describes the success of a pilot project at the University of Kansas Medical Center toward more integration of pathology and radiology describing how interaction between radiologists and pathologists can bring about more accurate diagnosis and better treatment.

Recruiting Outside the Box

The CNO at Brownwood Regional Medical Center is quoted in this feature story regarding the use of flexible scheduling as a creative tactic for recruiting healthcare professionals.

Self-directed Floating: Nurses Are Accepting its Benefits

This bylined article takes a look at how open shift management technology and the cultural change it provides staff through increased awareness, choice, and participation has resulted in significant increases in self-directed floating behavior at many healthcare organizations.

Speaking Event: Unlocking the Value of Digital Pathology

HIMSS 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition, April 4-9, Chicago, IL

Fill Those Unpopular Shifts

This feature article highlights how point-based awards and incentives drive employee behavior in positive ways.

Putting Digital Pathology Under the Microscope

This feature article provides vendor perspectives on the value, adoption and advancement of digital pathology, and how these systems are becoming must-haves for pathology laboratories.

Better Breast Cancer Care: Radiology & Pathology Converge Across the Digital Divide

Feature article discusses how physicians from the radiology and pathology departments at the University of Kansas Medical Center used a pathology information system, radiology PACS and video-conferencing system to enable the two specialties to reach across the digital divide.

Speaking Event: An Evidence-based Consortium for Staffing Excellence

American Organization of Nurse Executives 42nd Annual Meeting and Exposition, April 15-19, San Antonio, TX

While a Fully Digitized Pathology Lab May Be the Dream, Niche Adoptions are More Manageable

This feature article discusses that the trick to integration of digital pathology for most labs is through niche adoption.

Advances in Digital Pathology Drive Continued Momentum and Globalization

Bylined article discusses how digital pathology continues to transform the global delivery of quality, cost-effective pathology services, providing new technological standards and reinforcing the central role of the pathologist in patient management.

Aperio: A Dream Realized

This CEO profile highlights an executive's vision for creating a healthcare-focused company enabled by novel and proprietary technologies.

IHC Goes Digital

This bylined article discusses how IHC was the first digital pathology application to be cleared by the FDA, opening the door for more efficiency and creating new business lines.

Tips for Building a Sustainable, Cost-Effective Staffing Strategy

Bylined case study from a medical center in Kailua, Hawaii discusses the use of point-based incentives to fill open shifts, reducing the use of contract labor by 93 percent while increasing employee satisfaction.

Digital Pathology is Growing Despite Fears

This feature article discusses the continued growth and challenges of the digital pathology market.

How Saas Firm Concerro Ditched Its Old Name, and Kept on Growing

This CEO interview of a leading healthcare workforce management company profiles the company's recent strategy to change its corporate brand, and highlights various tips on how to generate healthy growth.

Open Shift Management -- The Right Resources at the Right Time Equals Effective Staffing

Bylined article by the CNO of a large Southeastern health system discusses how they saved $3 million in labor costs, reduced vacancy rates from 14% to 8%, and drove staff accountability to the front lines using an open shift management program.

Momentum Continues for Digital Pathology

This feature article discusses recent FDA clearances for reading digital whole slide images on a computer monitor.

The 2008 Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America

Submitted client to Inc. Magazine's 27th annual Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. The company ranked No. 9 in the Top 100 Software Companies, and No. 3 in the Top 50 Businesses in San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA.

Applying a Systems Thinking Model for Effective Staffing

Bylined article describes how a "systems thinking" model is a tool that healthcare organizations can use to take a fresh look at staffing practices and their relationship to quality of care and financial viability.

Speaking Event:
Point-Based Staffing Incentives: A New Approach to Employee Reward & Recognition

American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration 44th Annual Conference, Oct. 11-14, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX

No Room for Waste

Feature article discusses how hospitals reduce labor costs with web-based open shift management technology.

Dr. House meets HAL

Healthcare blog site discusses how digital pathology will someday make pathology diagnosis routine by digitizing the slides, automating the analysis, and building an expert system of diagnoses.

Revving Up QA in Anatomic Pathology

Bylined article discusses how digital pathology can streamline the way lab directors view and implement compliance procedures.

Digital Pathology in Preclinical Research Arena

Bylined article highlights how digital pathology provides a viable platform to move drug candidates through discovery and into clinical trials.

Achieving Effective Staffing Through a Shared Decision-Making Approach to Open-Shift Management

Bylined case study discusses how a nurse-driven open shift management program is a proven strategic tool for developing effective staffing practices.

Medical Research Institute Advances Biomarker Research with Digital Platform

Application notes on a research organization's use of digital pathology.

Speaking Event:
Moving Biomarkers Downstream: Quantitative Protein Expression in Histology Context

Hospital scheduling shifts

Feature article profiles technology for staffing effectiveness in hospitals and health systems.

Is Digital Path Imaging Ready for Prime Time

Feature article profiles CEO predictions on how the digital pathology systems market will evolve.

Benefits of Digital Pathology

Bylined article highlights how digital pathology results in improvements and efficiencies in data sharing, remote access, data management and intelligent data mining.

Digital Pathology Systems Gear Up for Prime Time

Feature article profiles the major vendors in the emerging digital pathology market.

Better Scheduling Boosts Productivity

Feature article highlights how hospitals use software to improve efficiency and comply with regulations.

Toronto Pathologists Use Whole-Slide Imaging

Feature article takes a look at how a large health system used whole slide imaging to increase productivity.

Scientific Feature: Digital Imaging Transforms Cancer Research into Online Collaboration

Feature article on how a digital pathology platform and image analysis algorithms are transforming cancer research.

Perspectives in Pathology

Bylined article on how use of digital pathology is streamlining tumor board reviews.

Hospitals see Benefits in Automated Scheduling

Feature story describes how the days of nurses filling out their schedules on paper and rushing to the hospital to grab prime vacation slots are rapidly fading, thanks to the advent of automated staffing solutions.

Hospital Lets Nurses Bid For Work Shifts

News clip featuring one hospitals use of technology to help fill open shifts.

Rex Hospital Has a New Online Tool that Helps both Nurses and Patients

News clip featuring use of technology to help fill open shifts.

Concerro helps hospitals, nurses meet staffing needs

Feature article highlights how three Florida not-for-profit hospitals are saving more than $1 million by using automated nurse staffing solution to fill open shifts.

UPMC, GE join forces for 'virtual' microscope

News article on the evolving market for digital pathology.

A Shift in Staffing

Feature article describes how web-based, self-service scheduling systems are helping facilities increase clinician satisfaction, manage patient throughput, and reduce costs.

Online Shift Scheduling Boosts RN Morale

Feature article takes a look at automated online staffing solutions.

Evidence-Based Staffing: Potential Roles for Informatics

Bylined article describing four informatics processes that support evidence-based nurse staffing.

100 Notable People in the Medical Device Industry

Feature article highlighting the most notable people in the medical device industry for 2008.

Staffing Success

Magazine cover story/bylined case study discusses how a large health system implemented a technology solution for excellence in staffing.

Hospitals across Florida save as nurses go online to set up their work schedules

News article details how hospitals across Florida save with online scheduling.

Digital Pathology Advances with Soenksen's Aperio

Executive profile of digital pathology leader.

Angiogenesis Measurement Using Digital Pathology

Cover story and bylined feature article discusses the use of digital pathology for angiogenesis measurement and its evolving importance across many therapeutic areas.

Dispositional Receivables Management Can Improve Collections

Bylined article highlights how providers are combating self pay, bad debt, and charity care issues by leveraging more advanced account segmentation and stratification strategies.

Forecasting Made Simple

This feature article showcases how a large healthcare system implemented automated data management tools to make estimating revenue a little easier.

5 Steps to Creating a Forecast

Bylined article outlines the major steps and considerations that a business manager should address when embarking upon forecasting.and tips for combating self pay, bad debt, and charity care issues by leveraging more advanced account segmentation and stratification strategies.

Digitization of Pathology Is Making Steady Progress

Feature article describes the ongoing advances in digital pathology that are providing pathologists with transformational tools and informatics.

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eBay for Nurses Grows Up: Powerful Recruitment and Retention Implications

FDA Gives Go Ahead to Digital Pathology

Feature article highlighting recent FDA clearance in digital pathology market.

Making The Transition to Digital Pathology

Bylined article explores how a large university-based health network distributed digital slide images throughout its disparate system to support the pathology needs of hospitals lacking an on-site pathologist.

Right on Schedule: Flexibility for Productivity

Feature article on how hospitals are embracing online programs that let nurses choose their own schedules -- and rewarding them for it.

Key Trends: Full Digitization of Images and Info Will Transform Anatomic Pathology

Feature article highlights how digital pathology is changing the way pathologists work and having significant implications for an industry facing labor shortages.

St. John's shifts the way nurses fill its shifts

Feature article discusses how an online scheduling program gives a medical center's more than 2,000 nurses greater flexibility in identifying extra shifts and linking the vacancies to their expertise and interests.

Digital Pathology, A New Frontier in Education

Cover story and bylined article describes how digital pathology is creating opportunities in medical education in the areas of decision support, digital slide conferencing, proficiency testing, and quality assurance.

Digging Their Way In: Digital Pathology Systems

Feature article publishes CEO keynote on how digital pathology improves the quality and efficiency of pathology services, and the significant trends that are creating pressures for change in pathology.

Speaking Event:
Shift Bidding Technology to Achieve Cost-Effective Staffing

HFMA Region 11 Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV

A Digital Revolution in Pathology

Bylined article provides an overview of the digital pathology market, and how it is transforming the computer into a virtual microscope.

How Nurses Paired with Finance for Positive Results

Bylined case study in the Healthcare Financial Management Association's "Business of Caring" newsletter discusses a collaboration between nurse leaders and finance executives.

Trends in Digital Pathology

Bylined case study on how an under-staffed, ill-equipped pathology laboratory reaped benefits by going digital.

Hospitals adopting technology allowing bidding for open shifts

Feature article highlights on how today's perioperative managers need new solutions to reduce annual payouts for healthcare staffing services.

IT Challenges Don't Drown the Drum of Digital

Feature article highlighting the emergence of digital pathology in support of research, education, and eventually clinical diagnosis.

Speaking Event:
Workforce Management Solutions that Create a Sustainable Future

Target Practice

Feature article highlights how software and database vendors aim to supply researchers with tools to extract quality from quantity, and how digital pathology is used in clinical research to scan biological slides and search the resulting images electronically.

Shifting Priorities

Bylined case study discusses long-term solutions to the increasing nurse shortage and the need to use technology for more effective utilization of the existing workforce.

Automated Workforce Tracking Keeps You Flexible

Bylined case study profiles how a large health system opted for an open shifts management program to give nurses more scheduling latitude and to better leverage its existing resource pool.

Speaking Event:
Performance Issues with Whole-Slide Imaging