THE DARK REPORT - Recent Issue: Aperio, Cerner Interface Digital Pathology and Pathology LIS

The Dark Report recent article from March 16, 2009 (Pages 17-18)

Aperio, Cerner Interface
Digital Pathology and Pathology LIS

Interface allows pathologists to integrate
digital pathology system with anatomic path system

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CEO SUMMARY:
For pathologists watching the market acceptance of digital imaging and digital pathology systems, another milestone has been reached. The nation's largest health IT companies are beginning to develop interfaces between their anatomic pathology laboratory information systems and digital pathology products. One such interface is now available to interface Cerner Corporation's CoPathPlus with the Aperio Technologies' Spectrum pathology (PACS) software.

Digital pathology systems are evolving on a path that uncannily mirrors the evolution of digital radiology systems. Several developments in recent weeks confirm this fact.

One milestone in the market acceptance of digital radiology systems was the development of partnerships between radiology PACS (picture archiving and communication system) vendors and radiology information system (RIS) vendors. These partnerships emerged as the big health IT vendors recognized that sales of digital imaging products were accelerating and they needed to integrate these radiology imaging (PACS) products with their RIS offerings.

Now the same phenomenon is unfolding with digital pathology (PACS) systems and AP laboratory information systems (LIS). Last month, Aperio Technologies, Inc., of Vista, California, announced the development of an interface with Cerner Corporation of Kansas City, Kansas.

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