Current Affairs
The Fairmont, Washington, DC - May 5-7 2014 CAP Policy Meeting: Stand up and be counted! The CAP is an important voice for your practice and the patients you serve. I’ve worked closely with pathologists in my home state of...
In September of 2012 I asked "How many times, if ever, have you googled a patient?" I wrote "As a physician/pathologist there are a number of forms of data available to you, specimen requisition information, clinical history, electronic...
At HIMSS ’14, Orchard Software will introduce a new product, an enterprise-class LIS called Orchard® Sequoia™ adding to its award-winning suite of laboratory informatics software. Come see the biggest tree in the Orchard at HIMSS ’14...
State of Digital Pathology Today – Part 2
In my post about a month ago on the “State of Digital Pathology Today – Part 1” I mentioned “In part 2 I will review true market valuation and why the recent cuts to the biopsy billing code and the death of the immunohistochemistry...
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) has sent a letter to Ms. Clara Marie Smith (CMS) on behalf of Mickey Doyle (MD) in response to the reimbursement cuts now in effect for immunohistochemistry (IHC), essentially claiming that they don't...
News that the Obama Administration partially delayed, for a second time, the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate received heavy coverage across media: all three network broadcasts reported, and several major newspapers carried the...
