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About Keith Kaplan

Dr. Kaplan is a surgical pathologist at Mayo Clinic and associate professor of pathology at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He received his MD degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine followed by residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. While at Walter Reed, in conjunction with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology he founded and directed the Army Telepathology Program connecting 25 hospitals worldwide for consultation via telepathology. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles book chapters, editorials and scientific abstracts. His subspecialty interests include gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology, cytopathology and pathology informatics and has presented at national and international meetings on those topics. Dr. Kaplan’s research interests involve gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology, hyperspectral imaging, image analysis and the use of Web 2.0 tools in pathology. He is active in many medical societies including the College of American Pathologists where he has chaired or served on several committees, serves as a reviewer for many scientific journals, serves on the editorial board for Human Pathology and blogs daily at www.tissuepathology.com.
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Posts by Keith Kaplan

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Keith Kaplan

Date
February 2, 2010
10:04 pm

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General, Informatics

Pathology 2.0 in the Literature

In December’s issue of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology there is an interesting editorial by Dr. Mark Wick that discusses Pathology 2.0 in reference to two articles in the journal. In summary, I think he feels there are uses in place for education and e-publications that are suitable and practical but thinks there [...]

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Keith Kaplan

Date
December 14, 2009
6:09 pm

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This is your cancer

Several months ago a gentleman walked into my office and introduced himself. The name sounded familiar but I couldn’t recall the context where I had read it or heard it before. Without mentioning how I could help him he mentioned that I had read his biopsy the week before and he would like [...]

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Keith Kaplan

Date
December 8, 2009
7:41 pm

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General, Informatics

Computers don’t save hospitals money?

Came across an interesting story from Computerworld about an a study out of Harvard that claims EMRs may not be all we think they are:
Computerworld – A Harvard Medical School study that looked at some of the nation’s “most wired” hospital facilities found that computerization of those facilities hasn’t saved them any money or improved [...]

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Keith Kaplan

Date
November 30, 2009
6:56 pm

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General, Informatics

Onshoring of Pathology Services

Last week Dark Daily ran a story about DermatopathologyConsultations.com. Robert Michel wrote:

DermatopathologyConsultations.com demonstrates how innovative pathologists are stepping up to apply new information technologies to make it easier for local pathologists to refer cases to expert subspecialist pathologists. The fact that Zembowicz and his colleagues are getting second opinion case referrals from other countries [...]

Posted by
Keith Kaplan

Date
November 10, 2009
10:09 am

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Stimulus grant establishes ‘Facebook for scientists’

A $12.2 million grant from National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) will establish a new national network for sharing information between scientists, which has been described as “Facebook for scientists.” The funding for this effort comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The project’s lead organization is the University of Florida; other participants [...]

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Keith Kaplan

Date
October 20, 2009
6:01 pm

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Welcome to pathologist blogger Dr. Gregory Henderson

The list of pathologist bloggers continues to grow with the start of Primary Care Pathologist by Gregory S. Henderson, MD, PhD from Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, WA where he is President and Partner of Pathology Associates of Kitsap County.
I first heard of Greg long before I met him at the College of American [...]

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