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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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May 19, 2010
4:24 pm

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“This is what your healthcare is going to look like.”

Last month I was in a post office standing in a particularly long line for that location. The line eventually extended beyond the lobby and outside the doors. The delay seemed to stem from the fact that this was between 12 and 1 PM when there were several customers and only 1 staff member during [...]

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Keith Kaplan

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April 18, 2010
1:56 pm

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What is the real cost of healthcare?

While I don’t usually write about my personal health, I was recently asked about health care reform during a discussion at the American Pathology Foundation meeting recently in Las Vegas. While the discussion centered on the main issue – not a full reform of the current healthcare system but rather insurance reform, it prompted me [...]

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Keith Kaplan

Date
February 2, 2010
10:04 pm

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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 are [...]

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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 to see [...]

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Keith Kaplan

Date
December 8, 2009
7:41 pm

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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 [...]

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Keith Kaplan

Date
November 30, 2009
6:56 pm

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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 [...]

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