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Lumea
A standardized pathology ecosystem designed to optimize cancer diagnostics, improve patient care, and deliver a tangible ROI.
Purpose
Lumea, a forefront innovator in digital pathology, places patients at the core of its approach. Their best-in-class tissue-handling technology and integrated workflow AI ensure standardization and optimal tissue integrity throughout the entire pathology ecosystem, enhancing overall efficiency and quality. This distinctive strategy improves tissue yield and quality, which can lead to higher cancer detection rates, and results in a return on investment in cost and time-sensitive environments, ultimately setting a higher standard for patient care in cancer diagnostics.
Vision
Lumea has a Vivid Vision that allows all team members to understand the company's direction, intent, and objectives. It covers approximately a page on each of the following topics:
· Financial
· Culture
· Leadership
· Credibility / Trust
· Organization / Operations / Process
· Software Solutions
· Tissue Handling Products
· DevOps & Integrations
· Marketing
· Sales
· Client Success
· Partnerships and Business Development
· Financial
· Culture
· Leadership
· Credibility / Trust
· Organization / Operations / Process
· Software Solutions
· Tissue Handling Products
· DevOps & Integrations
· Marketing
· Sales
· Client Success
· Partnerships and Business Development
Mission
Lumea's mission is relatively simple. It is:
To become the "Standard of Care" for tissue pre-analytics and digital Pathology.
Matthew Leavitt, a Stanford-trained pathologist, foresaw that digital was the future of pathology and wanted to use it in his practice. He and his colleague Jared Szymanski purchased a whole slide image scanner and some digital solutions, only to discover that they added more problems than they solved in cost and complexity. With the dream of making viable digital pathology a reality, Matt left his day job and founded the digital pathology company Lumea.
Matt and the Lumea team realized that too many digital pathology solutions started at the scanner. They believed the answer lay within the tissue – starting at the point of specimen acquisition. They focused on inventing products for physicians and labs that would increase efficiency, improve patient safety, and give an actual return on investments in digital pathology.
Lumea's team developed and commercialized the most advanced digital pathology platform on the market today. Their solutions standardized and connected clinic, laboratory, and pathology workflows. This digital pathology company has deployed proprietary tissue-handling technologies, specimen tracking, laboratory efficiency improvements, and a seamless digital signout process, and it has added invaluable AI and genetic testing partnerships to improve the quality of practices and allow businesses to scale.
To become the "Standard of Care" for tissue pre-analytics and digital Pathology.
Matthew Leavitt, a Stanford-trained pathologist, foresaw that digital was the future of pathology and wanted to use it in his practice. He and his colleague Jared Szymanski purchased a whole slide image scanner and some digital solutions, only to discover that they added more problems than they solved in cost and complexity. With the dream of making viable digital pathology a reality, Matt left his day job and founded the digital pathology company Lumea.
Matt and the Lumea team realized that too many digital pathology solutions started at the scanner. They believed the answer lay within the tissue – starting at the point of specimen acquisition. They focused on inventing products for physicians and labs that would increase efficiency, improve patient safety, and give an actual return on investments in digital pathology.
Lumea's team developed and commercialized the most advanced digital pathology platform on the market today. Their solutions standardized and connected clinic, laboratory, and pathology workflows. This digital pathology company has deployed proprietary tissue-handling technologies, specimen tracking, laboratory efficiency improvements, and a seamless digital signout process, and it has added invaluable AI and genetic testing partnerships to improve the quality of practices and allow businesses to scale.
Additional Culture Details
We have three fundamental principles that guide our company culture. They are 1) Focus on the Main Thing, 2) Be a scholar, not just a student, and 3) Treat all challenges as opportunities for improvement:
We strive to live by the "Main Thing" principle. We understand that everything can't be done, but we also have clarity around what is most important and will provide the most benefit for the effort and cash expended. We are focusing on those items. We have a significant backlog of things to do, and that's OK because we are working on the right items.
Team members constantly learn new skills and share those skills and knowledge with other team members and customers. Staff live "scholarly" attributes, where we seek out new knowledge and share that knowledge, as opposed to just "student" attributes of regurgitating what has been taught.
Team members see challenges as opportunities to improve. There is no office politics; instead, there is an honest and open dialogue about ways to improve ourselves, the company, processes, interactions, client relationships, profitability, effectiveness, etc. These conversations are not "blaming" in tone but instead are constructive, honest, and helpful.
We strive to live by the "Main Thing" principle. We understand that everything can't be done, but we also have clarity around what is most important and will provide the most benefit for the effort and cash expended. We are focusing on those items. We have a significant backlog of things to do, and that's OK because we are working on the right items.
Team members constantly learn new skills and share those skills and knowledge with other team members and customers. Staff live "scholarly" attributes, where we seek out new knowledge and share that knowledge, as opposed to just "student" attributes of regurgitating what has been taught.
Team members see challenges as opportunities to improve. There is no office politics; instead, there is an honest and open dialogue about ways to improve ourselves, the company, processes, interactions, client relationships, profitability, effectiveness, etc. These conversations are not "blaming" in tone but instead are constructive, honest, and helpful.
Values
- Humility
- We strive to seek understanding, lead by serving, and celebrate others in our digital pathology company.
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