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The Diagnostic Information
System (sm)
Company History
•A physician-driven and financed Subchapter S corporation, founded in Rhode Island by Robert D. Coli, MD and a group of physicians and other private investors.
•Recipient of two consecutive United States Patents (first from June 29, 1979 to June 29, 1999 and
current extending
from April 9, 1998 to April 9, 2018)
•Up-front patent licensing fee paid in August 2000 by Idexx Veterinary Clinical Labs.
•Working prototypes for common “MICROCHEM” tests developed in two Rhode Island hospitals and now under development by a leading local EHR/PMS vendor