Tag: journal of pathology

UPMC-KingMed Digital Pathology Venture Improves Patient Care

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Many experts think that digital pathology will make it possible to create international pathology subspecialty referral networks. Now in its fifth year, a partnership between UPMC’s Pathology Department and KingMed Diagnostics of China uses telepathology to give Chinese patients access to the subspecialist pathologists at UPMC. KingMed’s case referrals to UPMC rose from

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Why Canada Has Growing Shortage of Pathologists

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVIII No. 11 August 15, 2011 issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Canada, it is known that the supply of pathologists and laboratory physicians has diminished since 1998. Further, a federal program that measures patient wait times for certain surgical and imaging procedures does not measure how long patients wait for anatomic pathology test results. Authors of a recent study point out that—lacking data

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Tag: journal of pathology

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