Current Affairs

Whole Slide Imaging In a co-authored paper that appeared in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Liron Pantanowitz looked at the trend for using whole slide imaging (WSI) for diagnostic purposes and if it can safely...

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...

New Mexico, USA 10/27/2014 – Today Indica Labs, Inc. announced availability of the Image Analysis Hyper-Cluster™, the world’s fastest tissue image analysis system. The Hyper-Cluster™ is a server-based hardware and software system which...

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...