The Critical Role of Pathology Informatics in the Practice of Pathology

On October 3, 2018, I delivered a lecture at the ASCP Annual Meeting in Baltimore entitled:Using Informatics to Address Five Major Challenges in Pathology. You can view a PDF version of the lecture here. At the beginning of the lecture, I listed five major trends in healthcare. They are listed below:This is golden era of diagnostics, affecting primarily complex diseases like cancerDecentralization of healthcare away from hospitals& toward consumersRising tide of consumerism; patients will need to be treated more like customersComputer-driven analytics are changing the style and content of pathology reportsFor-profit companies like CVS, Apple,& Google beginning to reshape healthcareIn the summation of the lecture, I presented five major challenges flowing from the above trends that relate specifically to the practice of pathology and I list them below:Translation of cancer genomic& molecular pathology test results into actionable information for cliniciansDeployment of predictive diagnostics results into most pathology reports Total automation of anatomic pathology with integration of digital pathology into AP workflowConversion of most healthcare processes, including surgery, to ambulatory settings with the majority of interactions supported by telemedicineIntegration of lab data from"wearables ”& home testing devices into LIS& EHRAs you review this list of challenges for pathology, you will notice that each item is at least partly or almost t...

Source: Lab Soft News - October 11, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Testing Digital Imaging in Pathology Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology LIS Definitions and Strategy Pathology Informatics Telemedicine Source Type: blogs