Association for Pathology Informatics

Sponsors
The Association for Pathology Informatics gratefully acknowledges the financial support given by Corporate and Institutional Sponsors.

Corporate

	DEVELOP CONNECTIONS DELIVER ACTIONABLE HEALTH DATA Atlas Medical has been providing diagnostic outreach and connectivity platforms since 1995. We are known for our robust feature set, the configurability and flexibility of our OuterWare platform, our continuing investment in innovation and our dedication to excellence. We have contributed to the success of national and regional healthcare organizations that have realized profitable growth and scale using ATLAS to drive up to 100% of their orders electronically. IMPROVE WORKFLOWS RESOLVE COMPLIANCE CONCERNS Our solutions are feature-rich and targeted, honed by our experience serving a spectrum of clinical providers including hospital outreach labs, centers of excellence, multi-specialty clinics, reference labs and other diagnostic facilities. In addition, many use our solutions as a tool to manage and maintain data necessary for compliance with HIPAA, ARRA, ISO and other requirements. NURTURE CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS CREATE VALUE FROM OPPORTUNITY Strengthen customer relationships and enable a higher level of improved patient care with ATLAS solutions by offering quicker turn-around times, expanded services and richer data sets. Be prepared for evolving market drivers such as personalized medicine, bio-marker testing and related pre-authorization needs. Stay competitive with mobile access tools for physicians and “instant-on” connections with EMR systems. Explore how Atlas Medical can implement powerful performance enhancements in your clinical environment. Whatever the challenge—workflow efficiencies, compliance achievement, competitive concerns, revenue development or integration needs—trust ATLAS to deliver an intelligent, value-driven response to your business needs.
	Cerner Corporation is taking the paper chart out of healthcare. With more than 1,500 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier of healthcare information technology. From General Laboratory, Microbiology, Blood BankTransfusion, Blood Bank Donor and Anatomic Pathology to HLA and Outreach Services, Cerner Millennium® PathNet® is the only comprehensive, proven solution that fully automates laboratory clinical and management processes. Introducing innovative laboratory solutions, such as PathNet Helix™ for Molecular Diagnostics, and patented Synoptic Reporting, for over 25 years Cerner laboratory continues to empower clients with solutions to streamline your laboratory and build your business. We deliver innovation you can trust.Cerner Corporation

	LabMetrics is a premier lab and health information technology consulting firm leading the life sciences and healthcare industries by delivering technology enabled business and clinical solutions to our clients. Our roots are deeply founded in these disciplines since 1994 and today embody the collective wisdom and knowledge of our associates. LabMetrics associates provide end-to-end services to the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Our clients include academic medical centers, large health systems, hospitals, hospital-based laboratories, independent laboratories, molecular laboratories, drug-of-abuse testing laboratories, commercial laboratories, private equity investors, government agencies, vendors and large retail. Our team of experts is dedicated to achieving your project goals and improving your competitive edge in the market. Find out how we can help you to align your organization to attain more sustainable success through measurable results.
	Lifepoint Informatics is a trusted leader in healthcare information technology focusing on clinical integration, health information exchange, and data interoperability solutions for hospitals, hospital systems, and clinical laboratories. We offer vendor neutral data integration solutions that facilitate health information exchange, enable successful outreach connectivity, EMR integration, EHR interfacing, physician portal, and quality reporting among disparate clinical systems.

	mTuitive, Inc. develops data capture and synoptic reporting software to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines. Our unique method of capturing structured information provides valuable data for pathology, surgery, oncology and cancer staging applications. Our products allow the clinical decision maker to conveniently receive alerts and reference materials directly at the point of care. mTuitive solutions improve care to the patient through quality assurance and error reduction while standardizing and automating manual reporting processes, reducing both time and labor costs.
	Formed through a joint venture of GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Omnyx is an independent healthcare technology company located in the United States focused on digitizing the clinical practice of pathology across the globe. As a joint venture of GE Healthcare and UPMC, Omnyx draws from each partner's deep roots in engineering and clinical excellence. GE Healthcare brings its experience in clinical radiology and cardiology in hospitals globally. As a recognized leader in digital pathology, UPMC actively guides Omnyx's product design and services as a proving ground within its network of hospitals and labs. Omnyx is focused on innovation in pathology. Omnyx is dedicated to making the most complete, fastest, and most accurate integrated digital pathology solution-one that will enable anatomic pathologists in hospitals to render diagnosis from a digital image. Omnyx solutions enable larger academic medical centers and reference labs substantially improve pathologist productivity, increase access to care, increase consultation rates, enhance operational and capital efficiencies through the clinical use of digital pathology.
	SCC Soft Computer is the first name in LIS performance and reliability. With more than 550 installation sites worldwide, the company's focus is meeting client's unique and ever-changing needs. New generation technology and tools produce the highest outcomes in productivity, efficiency and R.O.I. SCC offers a complete suite of robust laboratory, anatomic pathology, blood services, accounts receivable, pharmacy, radiology, outreach and workflow software management solutions for hospital and clinical environments.
	Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. delivers market-leading diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions, designed and implemented to fulfill the business objectives of today's healthcare leaders. Sunquest’s vision is encompassed by a commitment to patient safety, workflow excellence, predictive medicine, and physician & patient affinity. Utilizing this dedication, Sunquest offers global diagnostic IT solutions to more than 1,400 organizations and 380,000 users worldwide. Sunquest CoPathPlus™ is the latest in innovative, industry-leading anatomic pathology solutions. Designed to support the unique workflow requirements of the anatomic pathology lab, the solution features sophisticated specimen management, extensive billing capabilities, and key reporting tools designed to streamline workflows and digitally automate processes. Digital pathology plays a significant role in the movement to automate the practice of pathology, and Sunquest has developed strategic partnerships with the Digital Pathology Association (Founding Gold Sponsor) and Massachusetts General Hospital to develop next-generation automation of the anatomic pathology LIS. Serving the global marketplace with reliable laboratory technology required for mission critical applications, Sunquest solutions provide the foundation to optimize the healthcare experience by delivering technology that eliminates errors and optimizes clinical and business processes. These solutions deliver safe, effective, and timely patient care and transform the delivery of healthcare with predictive and personalized medicine. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, the company has offices in Raleigh, North Carolina; Norwich, United Kingdom; and Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.sunquestinfo.com or phone +1 (800) 748-0692.

	Voicebrook is the leading provider of speech recognition and digital dictation solutions in Pathology. VoiceOver® software integrates directly with all major Anatomic Pathology systems and has been widely deployed throughout the US and Canada. Voicebrook’s software and services extend beyond core Dragon Medical® solutions and ensure the highest levels of success with speech recognition, while also providing the flexibility for users to choose between front-end speech recognition or traditional transcription workflows. VoiceOver® can be deployed as an upgrade to a Dragon implementation, allowing sites to protect initial investments, and realize the full potential of speech recognition and complementary workflow technologies.

Teaching Institution


	The Department of Pathology is integrally involved with the diagnosis of cancer and other major medical conditions through the gross and microscopic examination of tissue samples obtained from surgical procedures and endoscopy (Anatomic Pathology). Our department also provides clinical laboratory services to the hospital as well as consult services in the areas of clinical chemistry, hematopathology, microbiology, and transfusion medicine (Clinical Pathology).
	Cleveland Clinic's Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute is the largest volume hospital laboratory in the state of Ohio and the 15th largest in the United States, with approximately 1,300 dedicated employees and performing more than 12 million tests annually. The Institute provides crucial pathology and laboratory testing services to patients at Cleveland Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic family health centers and externally through Cleveland Clinic Laboratories.


	Pathology at Emory is a vibrant, multifaceted department with nearly 120 faculty, more than 50 residents and clinical fellows, scores of postdocs and graduate students, and over 150 staff, all dedicated to our three core missions of patient care, teaching, and research on human disease.

	The goal of the MGH Pathology Service is excellence in service to patients, present and future. For present patients, our goal is accurate diagnosis, communicated effectively and efficiently. For future patients, we promote research in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of disease and train leaders in pathology.

	Our mission is to advance health and wellness across the life span for the people of New York and the world through the education of tomorrow’s leaders in health care and biomedical sciences, innovative research and outstanding clinical care. Our goals: Attract the most promising individuals and support their development Enhance our intellectual and technological environment to foster exceptionally creative science and education Develop and maintain excellent clinical programs to provide outstanding care Cultivate excellence, collegiality, and diversity Observe the highest standards of ethics, integrity, professionalism, and humanism Apply advances in science, medicine, and education to the betterment of humanity

	The UAB Department of Pathology provides extensive clinical services and teaching while maintaining large and productive research programs. Currently, the Department has over $25 million per year in extramural research funding and our clinical services, including inpatient, outpatient and outreach, completes over 6 million procedures per year. The Division of Informatics is its 6th and newest unit, with the goal of assisting in developing a Precision Medicine component contributing to training, research and service programs that have achieved national and international recognition.
	The Department of Pathology has a broad mission within The University of Arizona. The faculty provides professional expertise in many areas of pathology and laboratory medicine. In addition, the professional staff provides the medical center with expertise in quality control and quality assurance and interfaces with a variety of state and national laboratory accrediting agencies on behalf of The University of Arizona and University Medical Center. The faculty is also responsible for the education of medical students, residents, graduate students, and post-graduate physicians as well as conducting research.


	The Department of Pathology is a “hybrid” basic science and clinical department based at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, a northeastern suburb of Denver, Colorado. The Department seeks to establish more active partnerships within the community, our region, and our profession as we grow to provide value-based medicine, focused on the origins of human disease.
	The Department is dedicated to training the next generation of practicing and experimental pathologists. To capitalize on the unique position of the Pathology Department's relationships with clinical and basic research departments, our research effort has a strong translational focus, and is home to federally funded investigator-initiated clinical trials – a true manifestation of a bench to bedside approach of medical investigations. The major theme of our Research Section is a unique fusion of molecular epidemiology and pathology. A novel Section of Transdisciplinary Pathology helps integrate research throughout the College of Medicine and the other Health Science Colleges. The Department hosts Core Laboratories in advanced tissue imaging techniques and research histology including immunohistochemistry, in-situ hybridization, tissue microarrays and laser capture micro-dissection. Together with Cancer Center, we house a Tissue Biorepository and will be developing shared virtual tissue banks with other academic centers.
	The goals of the Department of Pathology are inseparable from the goals of the Health System: leadership in education, research, and service. In addition, by virtue of its position, the Department is dedicated to serve in a unifying role within the university medical community. Education. Research. Service. Unifying role.
	The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, one of the largest departments in the School of Medicine at Penn, is considered both a basic science as well as clinical department and its 100+ faculty members are integrated into both areas. Clinically oriented faculty members have their primary base at four institutions: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Presbyterian Medical Center (PMC), Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Research faculty are located on the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine campus.
	The University of Pittsburgh's Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) brings together a diverse group of faculty committed to improving biomedical research and clinical care through the application of innovative technologies. Currently funded projects explore areas such as genomic and proteomic data mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and biosurveillance.
	A dynamic and rapidly evolving field, Pathology plays a pivotal role in diagnosis, research, and monitoring treatment. The Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine exemplifies the field's complex nature and incorporates Pathology's dramatic new developments in molecular biology and diagnostic biotechnology.
	With 91 full-time primary faculty, 31 dual-appointment faculty, 92 voluntary faculty and 41 residents and fellows in training, the Keck USC Department of Pathology is one of the largest pathology departments in the United States. The Department provides diagnostic laboratory services for the LAC+USC Medical Center, the USC University and Norris Cancer Hospitals, the Doheny Eye Institute, and through its reference laboratories, the USC Clinical Laboratory Group.