Advocacy
Distinguished presenters and product information drove attendees from across the globe to San Francisco, CA for the 10th Annual Pathology Visions Conference, hosted by the Digital Pathology Association (DPA). The conference was held last month...
Big news this morning with acquisition of Definiens by MedImmune, strengthening MedImmune's focus on the discovery of novel predictive biomarkers in immune-oncology. Good news for patients and their providers. Tuesday, 4 November 2014 -...
Attended Pathology Visions 2014 a few weeks ago in San Francisco, CA. Having missed the meeting the past couple of years and perhaps not being able to speak first hand about the quality of the content of those meetings (2012 was upended by a...
Time For FDA to Act is Now
Drs. Parwani, Hassell, Glassy and Pantanowitz have an excellent editorial entitled "Regulatory barriers surrounding the use of whole slide imaging in the United States of America" in the most recent edition of the Journal of Pathology...
There has been an issue that has come to light for the better part of this year that deals with legislation in New York State which does not allow for pathologists to speak directly with patients. For the past several months I have been...
I have written several posts on the value, benefits, risks, issues with "too much" data and the double-edged sword the electronic medical record presents for physicians. In 2008 I wrote a couple of posts entitled "Stethoscopes, EMRs and...