CAP Today Article Provides Highlights about the Pathology Informatics Summit 2014

The new issue of CAP Today contains an article describing some of the featured speakers at the Pathology Informatics Summit that will take place on May 13-16, 2014, in Pittsburgh (see: With lab informatics, better to give than to receive). Below is an excerpt from the article referencing one of them, Dr. Mike Becich, who is chairman of the bioinformatics department at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Link to the article itself to read about some of the other speakers at the conference. The roles of pathology informatics, biomedical informatics, and data analytics in the laboratory will be the subject of a talk by Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD [at the PI Summit].... “I’m calling for pathologists to realize that the age of computational pathology is upon us,” Dr. Becich says. What does he mean by “computational pathology”? “It’s the analytics of lab data,” he says, “combining different types of data sources on a patient generated by the laboratory and perhaps other health care sources, and really deeply interrogating genome data, imaging data, and what I’ll just loosely call phenotype data—the age at which you got a disease, the other diseases you have, your family history, all the things that EMRs are supposed to intelligently manage but, sadly, don’t.” Those are what computational pathologists want to use to add value to personalized medicine through big data, he says. “And the solution to that, for me, is not just pathology ...
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