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Upcoming DPA annual meeting

The Digital Pathology Association is hosting its annual meeting, Pathology Visions 2023, from Oct. 29–31, in Orlando, Fla.

Under the theme of “Igniting digital pathology transformation,” the meeting will address real-world, practical applications of digital pathology and artificial intelligence today and into the future. It offers more than 50 expert presenters, over 70 poster presentations, and nearly 50 vendors showcasing the latest innovations.

For more information, visit https://digitalpathologyassociation.org/.

Hc1 joins forces with oncology network to enhance lab staffing

The performance-analytics and operations-management technology provider Hc1 is partnering with the American Oncology Network to develop solutions that connect laboratories to data-driven staffing recommendations in real time.

The collaboration is intended to enable AON’s alliance of physicians and other health care professionals to optimize their laboratory staffing through artificial intelligence and machine-learning models using Hc1’s Workforce Optimization solution, which is under development.

“This partnership enables us to develop better processes with real-time actionable insights into our data and imparts us with forward-thinking recommendations based on a detailed analysis to optimize staffing and expenses,” said Curtiss McNair, vice president of laboratory services for AON, in a press statement.

The Workforce Optimization system is slated to be installed and tested this fall at AON’s central laboratory in Ft. Myers, Fla.

AON provides protocols for managing administrative procedures and ancillary services, including pathology, for its affiliates across 18 states.

Hc1, 317-219-4646

Duke Health and Microsoft collaborate to advance AI

Duke Health has entered a five-year-long partnership with Microsoft to responsibly and ethically harness the potential of generative artificial intelligence and cloud technology, in part by developing the Duke Health AI Innovation Lab and Center of Excellence.

Microsoft will provide Duke with state-of-the-art training to foster a cloud-savvy information technology workforce and construct a secure cloud environment to simplify and modernize IT operations. Duke will use the Microsoft Azure cloud to streamline clinical care, promote health equity, and expand research and education.

Duke Health and Microsoft will also develop AI-based solutions to fast-track innovation and use Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service to augment health care experiences for providers and patients through such means as automating administrative tasks to reduce workloads and expanding personalized patient education.

QuidelOrtho partners with BYG4lab to strengthen portfolio

The in vitro diagnostics technology provider QuidelOrtho has entered a software-development partnership with BYG4lab, a provider of data-management solutions for the laboratory, to enhance QuidelOrtho’s data-management offerings across its portfolio of diagnostic systems.

Through the agreement, the companies will jointly develop proprietary tools that allow autoverification to become more routine and available to labs of all sizes.

“Our partnership with BYG4lab reaches across the business, from clinical labs to transfusion medicine to point-of-care, and it allows QuidelOrtho to rapidly integrate affordable, cutting-edge and time-saving informatics solutions,” said Douglas Bryant, president and chief executive officer of QuidelOrtho, in a company press release.

The collaboration expands on an earlier commercial partnership between the companies.

QuidelOrtho, 800-874-1517

Sysmex extends long-standing alliance with Roche Diagnostics

Sysmex has expanded its 25-year-long global business partnership with Roche Diagnostics. The revised agreement renews the companies’ nonexclusive total laboratory solution collaboration that allows customers to purchase products for clinical chemistry, immunochemistry, and hematology testing from one vendor. The companies will also jointly explore ways to tackle social issues.

“Sysmex has agreed with Roche to expand the scope of their collaboration to include not only their products and sales and services but also the creation of a circular resource value chain in the in vitro diagnostics domain to deliver greater value to customers in laboratories from an eco-social perspective,” according to a press release from Sysmex.

Under the agreement, Roche will continue to distribute Sysmex’ hematology products and share management resources.

Sysmex, 847-996-4500

HNL Lab Medicine contracts with Proscia and Leica

The clinical diagnostics laboratory HNL Lab Medicine recently announced that it will use Proscia’s Concentriq Dx digital pathology software and Leica Biosystems’ high-throughput scanner hardware to establish an advanced digital pathology practice.

Allentown, Pa.-based HNL Lab Medicine is a full-service medical laboratory that operates more than 50 patient service centers in Pennsylvania.

Proscia, 215-608-5411

Dr. Aller practices clinical informatics in Southern California. He can be reached at raller@usc.edu. Dennis Winsten is founder of Dennis Winsten & Associates, Healthcare Systems Consultants. He can be reached at dennis.winsten@gmail.com.