Pathologist and Radiologists Head toward a Collision... or Will It Be a Collaboration!

From the Dark Report: Pathologist and Radiologists Head toward a Collision... or Will It Be a Collaboration!:

How much longer will anatomic pathologists spend the majority of their time in a quiet office, viewing glass slides through a microscope? Will radiologists and pathologists soon collaborate on diagnosing the patient and jointly releasing an integrated patient report to the referring physician?

Should you think these scenarios are several years into the future, you may be surprised to learn that first-mover pathology groups and radiology groups are in the earliest stages of fully-digital (non-glass) pathology and collaborative diagnosis/patient reporting. These pathologists and radiologists will tell you that this is an exciting time and they are advancing patient care because of these innovations.

Interesting...  Dr. Tawfik at University of Kansas is an Aperio customer, and we have been working closely with him on this study.  They knew having a Pathologist and Radiologist working together would be valuable, but they're surprised at just how valuable; they've found a number of cases where the diagnosis might have been different if they'd worked together in this way to reach it.