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American Sensor Technologies, Inc. (AST) has enhanced its AST4600 and AST46HA Series of Explosion Proof Pressure Transmitters with new pressure ranges, materials and options.
The pressure transmitter upgrades enable AST to better address customer demands and applications in a variety of industries.
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Have you heard the latest rumor that's buzzing out of thin air about the next-generation Corvette? Citing unspecified whistle-blowers such as "a very senior GM executive" and "several well-placed sources," The Detroit Bureau claims that the C7 will be getting a small-displacement, overhead-cam
If so, click here to submit Individual Oral or Individual Poster abstracts.
Sessions within the clinical, education and research tracks will consist of a series of 25 minute talks, immediately followed by questions. Researchers interested in presenting as part of these sessions should submit a 200 - 250 word abstract through the DPA website.
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2011
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR 2011 PATHOLOGY VISIONS
The annual meeting of the Digital Pathology Association (DPA) will be held October 30 - November 2, 2011 in beautiful San Diego.
Pathology Visions brings together attendees from around the world to share best practices and learn about innovations in digital pathology. Pathology Visions features leaders and early adopters of digital pathology as well as stimulating presentations on major topics. Enrich your conference experience through hands on workshops, scientific poster sessions, digital pathology demonstrations and networking events.
If you are involved or interested in the exciting world of digital pathology, Pathology Visions is the conference for you. Click here for more information.
New MaRS Global Centre Builds on GE's $6 Billion healthymagination Commitment to Improve Access, Quality and Cost and GE's MOU with Ontario Government TORONTO-MAY 31, 2011- Today, GE opened its first global "Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence" (PICOE), located at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. In this new research and development centre, GE will collaborate with its digital pathology joint venture, Omnyx™, along with funding partner, HTX (Health Technology Exchange) and numerous clinical partners to create best practices and technologies to address current pathology challenges. This new centre has the potential to revolutionize pathology through digital innovation. Developing products and processes to increase patient access to skilled pathologists and to empower pathologists with tools for more efficient, consistent and accurate examination will be part of the Centre's focus. By tackling issues of cost, quality and access of pathology services, the Centre is a core component of GE's healthymagination business strategy. PICOE builds on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) GE signed with the Ontario government in September 2009 to partner and invest long-term within the province. GE was attracted to Canada because of the expertise and leadership in digital pathology adoption in centres like Toronto, as well as the innovative and collaborative culture. MaRS, a leading innovation centre, serves as an ideal hub for PICOE given its close proximity to hospitals, highly skilled pathologists, clinical partners and academia. The new 2,150-square foot centre includes a digital lab where GE will conduct training, research and development on Omnyx™ IDP (Integrated Digital Pathology) platform with clinical collaborators. The lab will house Omnyx's Pathologist and Histology Workstations, as well as showcase Omnyx's VL series of high-resolution scanners which will digitize glass slides.
QUOTES "PICOE's opening is one way GE is investing and innovating with collaborators to find new ways to address costs, quality and access barriers to health for individuals and entire healthcare systems," said Peter Robertson, Vice President & General Manager of GE Healthcare Canada. "PICOE will create 15 new highly skilled jobs over the next three years and give pathologists and clinical partners the resources to accelerate research and development and testing for new digital pathology solutions. " "PICOE is an integral component of our strategy to ensure customers get the full value of their adoption of Digital Pathology." said Gene Cartwright, CEO of Omnyx. "We are excited to be part of the vibrant community surrounding the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto." "We are absolutely delighted to welcome GE Healthcare to the MaRS Centre. GE is a global innovation leader, and their arrival at MaRS affirms their commitment to Ontario and to furthering collaboration with the outstanding science, tech and social innovators in our ecosystem. This decision is timely, as a number of health innovation initiatives in the MaRS community are showing exceptional promise, offering unique opportunities for collaboration and partnership," said Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District. "The opening of PICOE and hiring of staff are exciting initial milestones, and we look forward to watching the Centre develop quickly" said John Soloninka, President and CEO of HTX - the Health Technology Exchange. "We have already received enquiries about how companies can collaborate with PICOE, and how other Multinational Enterprises can take advantage of the innovation ecosystem that GE has seen in Ontario. This is a very positive step for Ontario medtech commercialization, and one HTX is very pleased to support." "The opening of this Centre of Excellence is great news for Ontario; digital pathology will help reduce costs and give Ontarians faster and more accurate diagnoses, regardless of their location, " said Glen Murray, Minister of Research and Innovation. "PICOE will also help position Ontario as one of the world's top imaging clusters, attracting new companies and creating high-paying jobs." QUICK FACTS- Challenges Facing PathologyToday
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About GE GE is Imagination at Work - a diversified technology, media and financial services company focused on solving some of the world's toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, water processing and security technology to medical imaging, business and consumer financing, media content and advanced materials, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.ge.com. About GE Healthcare GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit http://www.gehealthcare.com
About healthymagination Healthymagination is GE's $6 billion commitment that was launched in May 2009. Our "healthymagination" vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality and efficiency around the world. For more information, visit: http://www.healthymagination.com
About Omnyx Omnyx, LLC is a joint venture of GE Healthcare and The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center with locations in Pittsburgh, PA and Piscataway, NJ. The company is developing an enterprise platform to transform the scope of pathology to an all-digital workflow. Omnyx will sell its digital pathology platform to clinical labs and offer an enterprise software platform for image management, workflow automation, image analysis algorithms and system integration along with its high speed whole-slide scanners. Close collaboration with pathologists at UPMC and other institutions along with their relationship with GE Healthcare allows Omnyx to focus its innovation on the needs of anatomic pathologists worldwide. Omnyx digital pathology products are currently in development and have not yet been cleared by the US FDA or licensed by Health Canada.
About HTX From Invention through to Innovation to International Invoice, HTX supports emerging and established Ontario-based companies to develop, produce and commercialize innovative market-leading advanced health technologies. HTX is funded by theGovernment of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation. For more information about the Health Technology Commercialization Program, please visit http://www.htx.ca. HTX is a member of the Ontario Network of Excellence http://www.oneinnovation.ca.
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Digital Pathology Consultants LLC (DPC) and BioInformatics LLC announced today a partnership to provide digital pathology companies unprecedented market insight about their customers, products, and brand.
Broomfield, CO (PRWEB) May 26, 2011
Digital Pathology Consultants LLC (DPC) and BioInformatics LLC announced today a partnership to provide digital pathology companies unprecedented market insight about their customers, products, and brand.
BioInformatics LLC has served the life science, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries for the past 17 years as a leading market research and advisory firm. Digital Pathology Consultants, a premier consulting firm, is a trusted advisor to the digital pathology industry, healthcare, and pharmaceutical markets. The collaboration between DPC and BioInformatics LLC combines extensive industry knowledge with an accomplished team of market research experts to provide digital pathology companies with the vital market information necessary to grow their business and remain competitive.
Amanda Lowe, President of Digital Pathology Consultants said, “We are excited to work with BioInformatics LLC, an excellent firm with an outstanding track record. Their skilled staff of experts will provide my clients with the right information to make good business decisions.”
Bill Kelly, President of BioInformatics LLC, said, “In order to provide comprehensive solutions to leading medical technology companies, advisory firms must respond in a collaborative, innovative way. We are excited to join forces with Digital Pathology Consultants, an organization that brings a deep knowledge of the digital pathology industry and an understanding of best practices to each engagement.”
In 1997, BioInformatics LLC established a professional online community, The Science Advisory Board, which has grown in number to over 60,000 scientific consumers. Members network on this social media platform to voice opinions, share protocols and collaborate with colleagues around the world. According to Kelly, “Over the past year, we have been actively recruiting scientists in the pathology and molecular diagnostics fields to our online panel in anticipation of continued growth in these markets.” Members agree to participate in market research surveys and focus groups, which will be a valuable resource to Digital Pathology Consultants and will support our collaborative efforts to reach out to scientists in the digital pathology industry.
About Digital Pathology Consultants, LLC
Digital Pathology Consultants, founded by Amanda Lowe, is a leading provider of digital pathology consultation services. Our services assist businesses, and medical and biopharma professionals with market research, business planning, and step-by-step through the selection, implementation, and validation of digital pathology solutions. Knowledge, trust, and an open exchange forum shape the foundation of Digital Pathology Consultants. Delivering results is our promise, exceeding your expectations is our guarantee.
About BioInformatics LLC
BioInformatics LLC, is the premier research and advisory firm serving the life science industry. By leveraging our professional social network of more than 60,000 life scientists, we have supported more than 300 companies and provided insights that lead to better business decisions. Our assignments include assessing the size and attractiveness of markets, optimizing product configurations and pricing, validating corporate acquisitions, measuring customer loyalty, and evaluating brand strength and positioning.
This Week at Observatory: An artist's investigation into the Mütter Museum's famous Hyrtl Skull Collection! Meditations on the allure and history of the Victorian bell jar featuring a show and tell from an amazing private collection!
Full details follow; hope very much to see you there.
The Hyrtl Simulacrum
An illustrated lecture with artist Jeanne Kelly
Date: Tuesday, May 31
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid AnatomyThe Hyrtl Simulacrum is a multimedia, interactive augmentation to the museum experience that makes curiosity contagious and infects others with a sense of wonder. It uses museum artifacts as the foundation for creative historical fictions. These fictions are discovered through digital forensic facial reconstructions and analog interaction with story machines.
The stories begin with 8 of the 138 human skulls that combine to make up the Hyrtl collection, found in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Durning the late 1800's Dr. Joseph Hyrtl wrote what he knew about each person directly onto their skulls. The Hyrtl Simulacrum grew from these short stories written directly on bone. A famous Viennese prostitute, a tight-rope walker who died of a broken neck, a child murderer and a Tai bandit are only a few of the very real people chosen from the collection to become characters in this new narrative.
Combining her love of artistic anatomy, conceptual visual narrative, history, science and good story telling, the project has grown to include high-resolution CT scans of the original skulls, vintage photography, a variety of forensic reconstruction techniques, digital painting and image editing, large wooden interactive curiosity cabinets with miniature handmade dioramas inside and much more.
You can catch a preview of The Hyrtl Simulacrum at the Kellen Gallery at 2 West 13th St., where it will be on view through May 23rd.
Jeanne Kelly is an award winning conceptual artist, designer and all around creative. Research as design, scholarship as artistic medium, institutional insertion, collective narratives, public interventions and scripted spaces are the focus of her current work. In the creation of her own work and in collaboration with others, she has utilized everything from welding, painting and wood carving to flash animation, video projection and 3d modeling. Focusing over 20 years experience in the arts, she aims to enhance the current ideas of curation through the augmentation of the museum experience through fine art, interaction and narrative. Jeanne received her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School for Design.
Under Glass: A Victorian Obsession
An Illustrated Lecture and Show and Tell with with Glass Parlor Dome Collector John Whiteknight
Date: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Part of the Out of the Cabinet: Tales of Strange Objects and the People Who Love Them Series, presented by Morbid Anatomy and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence Evan MichelsonA smoking monkey dressed as a Marquis, a Wild West scalping scene created in beeswax, a cemetery scene made from the deceased's hair, and stuffed pug dog puppies, all under glass domes!!!!!
The bell jar, or glass parlor dome, is synonymous with our memory of the Victorian Age (1837 - 1901). During the 19th century, these blown glass forms were referred to not as domes but as shades, and graced nearly every parlor, protecting a broad variety of treasures--including miniature tableaux, waxworks, natural history specimens, taxidermy of exotic birds and pets, automatons, and delicate arrangements of hairwork, featherwork, and shellwork--from dust and curious fingers.
Tonight, join parlor dome collector, scholar and author of the upcoming book Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession John Whitenight as he shares treasured objects from his more than 30 years of collecting, traces the art and history of the parlor dome in an illustrated lecture, and muses on the peculiar allure of the glass parlor dome, that extraordinarily thin bubble of glass which is at once barrier and invitation, creating an enchanted world which teases the viewer by saying, “ look at me, study me and enjoy me, but do not touch."
John Whitenight has collected antiques since he was a young boy. Along with his fever for collecting came a thirst for knowledge and a love affair with all things involving the Victorian era. Currently,his private collection consists of over 175 domes from four inches high to well over three feet high. As voracious for information as for new specimens, he has, over the years, become something of a scholar on domes and the various art forms beneath them. Feeling that this is an area that has been grossly overlooked in the study of 19th century decorative arts, Mr. Whitenight has decided it was time to put these wonderfully whimsical and eccentric Victorian concoctions into the spotlight where they belong; to this end, he is hard at work on a lavishly illustrated book on the topic entitled Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession.
You can find out more about these events on the Observatory website by clicking here; you can access these events on Facebook here. You can get directions to Observatory--which is next door to the Morbid Anatomy Library (more on that here)--by clicking here. You can find out more about Observatory here, join our mailing list by clicking here, and join us on Facebook by clicking here.
I must confess that I have never actually read any H. P. Lovecraft's works, though I am, of course, well aware of the strong cult following he has engendered with many like-minded folk. Today I came across a link to an article about his favorite artists, and it reads--perhaps not surprisingly--like an illustrated who's who of my favorite historical artists of the fantastic and the grotesque--including Gustave Doré, Henry Fuseli and Francisco Goya--with a few great artists that I had never heard of thrown in for good measure, including John Martin, whose fantastic "The Great Day of His Wrath" (1851) you see above.
This article--by illustrator and graphic designer John Coulthart--is a terrific resource for aficionados of the gothic and fantastic in art; you can read it in its entirety (which I highly recommend!) and see lots of great images not included in this post by clicking here.
Found via i09.
There is probably no other pathologist who is responsible for scanning more slides and using digital pathology to enhance both their laboratory operation as well that of hundreds of other laboratories other than Dr. Ken Bloom. From ACIS to Virtual IHC and years of experience prior to whole slide with remote telepathology, Ken has seen it all but more importantly has been successful at clinical business models that increase productivity, decrease turn around time and enhance patient care.
FREE PHC Webinar Courtesy of College of American Pathologists
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Noon – 1:00 PM Central
Speaker: Kenneth J. Bloom, MD, FCAP
Once digital images are produced from glass slides, sharing of the digital images for a variety of purposes is facilitated, including expert review or consultation in a single multi-site practice setting, between practice groups, and potentially international primary diagnosis or consultation. The use of digital images can improve workflow by eliminating the need to physically distribute glass slides, and by allowing digital images to be distributed to experts at remote locations from the histology laboratory site. Stored digital images can be retrieved more easily than glass slides for previous slide review, clinical interdisciplinary conferences, research and publication. The improved work flow can increase productivity, decrease turn-around times and improve patient care. Digital image analysis software development has the potential to provide methods for quality assurance in slide review and to allow quantitative analysis of immunohistochemical staining intensity and location, and even image comparisons to archived previously diagnosed images. More importantly, unchaining the pathologist from the microscope will open a plethora of slide-based technologies to the pathologist, that will likely transform the practice of pathology and significantly improve patient care. This webinar will discuss the potential clinical application areas for WSI.
Under Glass: A Victorian Obsession
An Illustrated Lecture and Show and Tell with with Glass Parlor Dome Collector John Whiteknight
Date: TONIGHT: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Part of the Out of the Cabinet: Tales of Strange Objects and the People Who Love Them Series, presented by Morbid Anatomy and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence Evan MichelsonA smoking monkey dressed as a Marquis, a Wild West scalping scene created in beeswax, a cemetery scene made from the deceased's hair, and stuffed pug dog puppies, all under glass domes!!!!!
The bell jar, or glass parlor dome, is synonymous with our memory of the Victorian Age (1837 - 1901). During the 19th century, these blown glass forms were referred to not as domes but as shades, and graced nearly every parlor, protecting a broad variety of treasures--including miniature tableaux, waxworks, natural history specimens, taxidermy of exotic birds and pets, automatons, and delicate arrangements of hairwork, featherwork, and shellwork--from dust and curious fingers.
Tonight, join parlor dome collector, scholar and author of the upcoming book Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession John Whitenight as he shares treasured objects from his more than 30 years of collecting, traces the art and history of the parlor dome in an illustrated lecture, and muses on the peculiar allure of the glass parlor dome, that extraordinarily thin bubble of glass which is at once barrier and invitation, creating an enchanted world which teases the viewer by saying, “ look at me, study me and enjoy me, but do not touch."
John Whitenight has collected antiques since he was a young boy. Along with his fever for collecting came a thirst for knowledge and a love affair with all things involving the Victorian era. Currently,his private collection consists of over 175 domes from four inches high to well over three feet high. As voracious for information as for new specimens, he has, over the years, become something of a scholar on domes and the various art forms beneath them. Feeling that this is an area that has been grossly overlooked in the study of 19th century decorative arts, Mr. Whitenight has decided it was time to put these wonderfully whimsical and eccentric Victorian concoctions into the spotlight where they belong; to this end, he is hard at work on a lavishly illustrated book on the topic entitled Under Glass, A Victorian Obsession.
Hope to see you there!
You can find out more about this event on the Observatory website by clicking here; you can access this event on Facebook here. You can get directions to Observatory--which is next door to the Morbid Anatomy Library (more on that here)--by clicking here. You can find out more about Observatory here, join our mailing list by clicking here, and join us on Facebook by clicking here.
Image: Tonight's lecturer John Whiteknight with a small part of his extensive collection of Victorian glass domes.
More Than 45 Customer Presentations Highlighted Research and Technologies that are Revolutionizing Healthcare
Dates of Upcoming Owners Group Meetings Set for June 10, 2011 in Alameda, California and September 14-15 in London, UK
HOPKINTON, Mass., June 1, 2011 -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, hosted its 2011 annual Customers Owners Group (COG 2011) meeting on May 17 and 18 at its Hopkinton headquarters. This thought-leadership conference brought together leaders in research, drug discovery, and diagnostics to discuss the technologies and discoveries that are transforming the detection and treatment of disease, and making personalized medicine a reality. More than 350 customers attended the event, which featured 45 presentations from researchers representing life sciences companies and institutions.
“COG 2011 was a tremendous congress, with presentation tracks focused on next generation sequencing, imaging & pathology, biomarkers discovery, molecular diagnostics, biologics & vaccines, and targeted small molecules, each of which is a critical enabling theme for personalized medicine. A key message from the meeting was the clear need for technological innovations in these areas that can enable the precision diagnostics and therapeutics that are required to achieve the vision of personalized medicine,” said Kevin Hrusovsky, President and CEO of Caliper Life Sciences. “This event highlighted Caliper’s focus on innovation, collaboration, and culture as key cornerstones that define our efforts to extend and improve the quality of life and to truly place the patient first in the practice of medicine. Throughout the event, it was our privilege to motivate and provide inspiration to leading researchers from industry and academia, while also demonstrating how our technologies are having a profound impact on research applications.”
“One of the main reasons I am here today is the important collaborations between academy and industry are going to drive this revolution. We are in an era of technology-driven medicine,” said Dennis Ausiello, M.D., Chief of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Chief Scientific Officer of Partners Healthcare, and member of the Board of Directors of Pfizer and the Broad Institute, while delivering his keynote presentation about the advancements in research and technologies that will transform medicine. Dr. Ausiello cited specific examples where gene expression and sequencing technologies have improved the quality of patient care. “I am inspired personally by both the approach and the vision that Caliper has in helping deliver this revolution.”
Additional keynote presentations were provided by Go van Dam, M.D., Ph.D., the pioneering surgeon and Associate Professor at University Medical Center Groningen, who presented on the innovative clinical application of optical imaging and biomarker detection technologies during surgical procedures to significantly improve a patient’s prognosis, and by Stephan Schuster, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University and project leader for the South African Genome Project and the Wooly Mammoth Genome Project, who described the use of next generation sequencing to explore evolutionary diversity within mankind and of extinct and near-extinct organisms.
Caliper’s vision for personalized medicine includes several enabling technology themes that will revolutionize the practice of healthcare in the near future. Caliper’s COG events are organized into tracks that are closely aligned to these revolutionary themes: next generation sequencing, imaging and pathology, biomarkers discovery, molecular diagnostics, biologics and vaccines, and targeted small molecules. Caliper extended its COG series, with upcoming events in Alameda, CA, USA on June 10, 2011 and in London, UK on September 14 and 15, 2011. For more details, and for presentations from previous COG events, please visit http://caliperls.com/support/caliperowners-group.htm.
About Caliper Life Sciences
Caliper Life Sciences is a premier provider of cutting-edge technologies enabling researchers in the life sciences industry to create life-saving and enhancing medicines and diagnostic tests more quickly and efficiently. Caliper is aggressively innovating new technology to bridge the gap between in vitro assays and in vivo results, enabling the translation of those results into cures for human disease. Caliper’s portfolio of offerings includes state-of-the-art microfluidics, lab automation and liquid handling, optical imaging technologies, and discovery and development outsourcing solutions. For more information please visit www.caliperLS.com.
Back in April I reposted a press release highlighting Aperio and UCLA performing second consults from China. June brings news of UPMC setting up a second-opinion network in China as well with reference to potentially migrating to the Omnyx platform they are helping to develop.
17 central labs serving 6000 hospitals and clinics in more than 2/3 of China's provinces are operated by KingMed Diagnostics. Wow.
Jun. 1, 2011 (PR Newswire Asia) --
PITTSBURGH, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Marking its first medical services agreement in Asia, UPMC announced today that it will provide remote, second-opinion pathology consultations to KingMed Diagnostics, the largest independent medical diagnostic laboratory in China.
Using equipment that scans glass pathology slides and stores and transmits the images electronically, KingMed will have the ability to seek second opinions on patient diagnoses from UPMC's pathologists through a secure, Web-based telepathology portal. The service is expected to start by late summer.
"This three-year agreement will provide patients served by KingMed with rapid access to UPMC's world-renowned pathologists, thereby helping to ensure the most accurate diagnoses of complex diseases," said George K. Michalopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC pathologist and professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The department is the largest academic clinical organization of its kind, with 175 faculty members.
"KingMed is committed to offering the most comprehensive, highest-quality laboratory services in China," said Yaoming Liang, founder and CEO of KingMed Diagnostics. "This agreement with UPMC demonstrates that commitment and provides our patients with access to another source of pathology expertise that is not widely available in China."
Travis Tu, head of UPMC's new representative's office in Shanghai, noted that the KingMed deal is just the first of what UPMC hopes will be many agreements to provide an array of medical services throughout Asia. "UPMC's reputation for clinical excellence is attracting partners like KingMed that are committed to improving health care in Asia. At the same time, by leveraging our clinical successes in western Pennsylvania, UPMC is able to generate revenue that supports jobs and world-class health care and research at home."
UPMC's collaboration with KingMed also is expected to include training for pathologists from China in UPMC's Pittsburgh facilities and joint academic meetings as part of ongoing medical education in China.
In the future, KingMed may replace its telepathology platform with the digital pathology solutions being created by Omnyx, a joint venture between UPMC and GE Healthcare. Formed in 2008, Omnyx is digitizing slides and the corresponding workflow to improve collaboration, communication and efficiency. Omnyx is the first company ever formed by GE with an academic medical center.
About UPMC
UPMC is a $9 billion global health enterprise with more than 50,000 employees headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., and is transforming health care by integrating more than 20 hospitals, 400 doctors' offices and outpatient sites, a health insurance services division, and international and commercial services. Affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC is redefining health care by using innovative science, technology, and medicine to invent new models of accountable, cost-efficient, and patient-centered care. For more information on how UPMC is taking medicine from where it is to where it needs to be, go to http://www.UPMC.com.
About KingMed Diagnostics
KingMed Diagnostics operates the largest independent clinical laboratory network in China with 17 central laboratories serving more than 6,000 hospitals and clinics in 26 out of 33 provincial level regions in China. Headquartered in Guangzhou, KingMed is accredited by the College of American Pathologists and International Organization of Standardization under its ISO15189 standard and provides medical diagnostic testing services to hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical companies and research institutions across China. KingMed is a market leader in the provision of medical diagnostic testing services and is committed to offering the most comprehensive, highest-quality laboratory services available in China.
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Jason Cristofalo took some great underwater photos of some Cannonball Jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) swimming off Cocoa Beach, Florida this week and was kind enough to share them with everyone. Here’s what he said in his email to me: I found your website (beachhunter.net) and thought you might be interested in these pictures and video for [...]
Siesta Public Beach In 2008 it was #3. In 2009 it was #2. In 2010 it held the #2 spot. Finally, in 2011, Siesta Key Beach has been named the number 1 beach in the nation! Dr. Leatherman ranks major recreational beaches based on 50 criteria that include adequate access, parking, safety, cleanliness, beauty, water [...]
Red-breasted Flycatcher on Brownsman (Graeme Duncan)
Showing well (Graeme Duncan)Amazingly the seabirds appeared to have generally got away with it but next time, they might not be as lucky. Where just hoping for calm weather and a successful few months ahead.
On another note, today produced a big surprise as we produced our first noticeable passerine of the spring – a female/immature Red-breasted Flycatcher on Brownsman! The bird arrived late afternoon and showed well to all admiring wardens. Although almost an annual migrant to the islands, this was only our fourth ever spring bird and the first since 1988!
Highlights: Red-breasted Flycatcher 1 on Brownsman, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler and Redstart.
Breeding bird news: Razorbills now on chicks, Sandwich Tern number low – estimated at only 400 pairs (potentially our lowest ever breeding number).
Puffins galore - chicks have started hatching (Andy Denton) 
Sandwich Tern colony (Andy Denton)
Who are you looking at... (Andy Denton)
