Elea is excited to share that Sebastian Casu has joined the company full-time as Chief Medical Officer, starting April 1st. Sebastian is a co-founder of Elea, part of the team from the very beginning, and is now making the leap from a successful career in medicine — including his role as Chief Physician and Medical Director [...]
Barco, global leader in medical visualization and connectivity solutions, has now qualified its MDPC-8127 display for digital pathology as a Class A in vitro device in Europe, in addition to its existing IVD registration with the FDA. In vitro device regulation The European regulation on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDR) sets high standards of quality [...]
A major milestone for digital pathology: TechCrunch has spotlighted Elea, the Hamburg-based health tech startup, for its groundbreaking approach to transforming pathology labs through artificial intelligence. Founded in early 2024 by Dr. Christoph Schröder and Dr. Sebastian Casu, Elea has developed an AI-powered operating system that fully replaces outdated laboratory information systems. Leveraging speech-to-text transcription, intelligent task automation, and [...]
ARUP Laboratories announced today the expansion of its groundbreaking AI-augmented screening tool for the detection of human gastrointestinal parasites to include wet-mount slides. With this expansion, ARUP will become the first and only laboratory to apply AI-augmented screening to the entire ova and parasite testing process. “By utilizing an AI-augmented screening process, we have seen a [...]
What is Digital Pathology? Digital Pathology is the process of scanning traditional glass slides in a Whole Slide Image (WSI) scanner, creating a digitised version of that slide, and storing it in an online system, to potentially be shared around laboratories across the globe. It allows pathologists to look at scans in a digitised format on [...]
We are excited to announce that Cirdan is expanding our Board of Directors with the addition of Bernard McGuire, Managing Director and Member of the Investment Committee at 57 Stars. Bernard will join us as a permanent member of the board this month, bringing invaluable expertise and insight to our mission of revolutionising the future of [...]
by Amy Carpenter In the clinical parasitology laboratory at Mayo Clinic, job satisfaction is up and ergonomic strain is down. Work difficulty is down, too, as is the pressure of time. All that and much more was measured one year after bringing artificial intelligence into the laboratory to screen out the negatives. "It has been a [...]
Why pre-analytics deserves a digital revolution In the fast-paced world of pathology and laboratory medicine, where cutting-edge molecular techniques and digital innovations dominate headlines, it is easy to overlook the foundation of our diagnostic process: pre-analytics. And yet this crucial phase – encompassing specimen handling, labeling, and grossing – remains largely unchanged since the dawn [...]
When we think of healthcare, our minds usually jump to doctors, nurses, medicines and treatment plans. However, we tend to miss the important link in the healthcare system, bridging the gap between patients and doctors: Pathologists. Behind every diagnosis, treatment decision and patient outcomes lies this vital, yet overlooked, profession. What is Pathology? Pathology is central [...]
Cirdan was delighted to announce the European launch of PathLite+, our cutting-edge macro-imaging system, at the European Congress of Pathology 2024, from 7th-11th September, in Florence, Italy. This event provided the perfect platform to introduce PathLite+ to a European audience, and we were thrilled to engage with experts from across the pathology field. The European debut of [...]
