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 [...]
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) unveiled today new resources and features on MyBiopsy.org to help patients better understand their disease. Neuropathological diagnoses discussed on the site include: anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma, pilocytic astrocytoma, and oligodendroglioma. If one of your patients has questions about one of these pathological diagnoses, you can refer them to this website, [...]
Announcement From the CAP Foundation: January 15, 2010 Dear Colleagues, All of us are reading and watching the devastating news and seeing the wrenching pictures from Haiti in the aftermath of the terrible earthquake earlier this week. As a physician, I read the news and looked at the images with grief, with shock, and with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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