Heska Corporation (NASDAQ: HSKA – News; “Heska” or the “Company”), a leading global provider of advanced veterinary diagnostic and specialty products, announced today that the Company has entered into an agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire 100% of Lacuna Diagnostics, Inc. (“Lacuna”), a pioneer and market leader in point-of-care diagnostics digital cytology technology and telemedicine services.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, Lacuna is a first-to-market digital telemedicine cytology platform that increases the standard of care veterinarians provide for pets by providing nearly real-time interpretation of cases by an expert network of board-certified clinical pathologists. Lacuna’s revolutionary software, workflow, and artificial intelligence data technology facilitate fast, accurate and comprehensive results from samples taken at the point of care and instantly transmitted to Lacuna’s team of board-certified experts. Lacuna improves veterinarian accuracy and confidence and accelerates positive healthcare outcomes by dramatically decreasing the wait times and environmental pollution associated with traditional central reference lab pathology services. With a global team of over 25 pathologists located throughout multiple time zones in the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Australia, Lacuna has interpreted over 25,000 cases and counting.
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