Clinical Laboratories
Several newsworthy items in this recent mailing from CAP. Of note, a couple items pertinent to digital pathology including dermatopathology survey, a pre-conference workshop at the upcoming Futurescape meeting on digital pathology and early...
Attended the USCAP meeting in Boston over the weekend. On Saturday attended the DICOM Working Group 26 (WG 26) meeting. A copy of the document discussed is available here. This was my first DICOM WG 26 meeting (as an observer) and...
Came across this post from NY Times Health blog this week. Couple of thoughts: Biopsies required to fix for certain time should need for certain IHC (i.e. HER2) required. Formal guidelines coming on ER/PR as well just as we...
TOP STORIES CAP Electronic Cancer ChecklistsNow Available in XML FormatThe College of American Pathologists electronic Cancer Checklists are now even easier to use! The checklists, which assist pathologists in reporting over 60 common and...
Awhile back I wrote a few notes entitled "Stethoscopes, EMRs and EHRs - what is all the data worth?" They were essentially musings about my own experiences with health records, patient data and some thoughts dealing with...
If your holidays were anything like mine, they involved some travel, some interesting weather & lack of Internet, wi-fi, telephone or television for a few days, which I happened to enjoy. That leaves me still trying to catch up on...
