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February 2023—As this year’s guide to anatomic pathology computer systems was taking shape, CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle met online with representatives of five companies and with John Sinard, MD, PhD, of Yale University School of Medicine. They talked about the cloud, CPT codes, training of pathology informaticians, and artificial intelligence, for which the time frame in pathology is far longer than it’s been portrayed, in Dr. Sinard’s view. “It will start to impact the careers of some of our trainees, but it’s probably a 10- to 20-year time frame before it plays a major role,” he said. The view of Joe Nollar of Xifin: “Speculation that AI will someday replace pathologists is completely overblown,” though it will help to triage cases and mitigate risk. Their full conversation, which took place Dec. 20, 2022, follows.  

February 2022—Oracle’s purchase of Cerner, cloud computing, and integrated reporting were up for discussion when CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle convened a virtual roundtable Jan. 6 on anatomic pathology computer systems. Hematopathologist Monica E. de Baca, MD, said on the call she was encouraged by what she heard about integrated reporting from the AP LIS vendor reps on the call. But she said: “We should also be thinking about what is next; we don’t want to be talking about things 10 years after they were needed.” She and seven others answered McGonnagle’s questions, among them: Are the resources in pathology adequate to make progress toward and enable the necessary IT outcomes?

November 2021—Cybersecurity and the cloud, COVID care gaps, and lab consolidation were among the topics CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle talked to LIS vendors and Toby Cornish, MD, PhD, about in a Sept. 20 virtual roundtable. A return to on-site trade shows, too, came up: “I do miss walking the vendor floor. I feel like I’m out of touch with what the developments are,” said Dr. Cornish of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

April 2017—“No man putteth new wine into old wineskins” reads the biblical aphorism in Luke 5:36–39, which continues by giving the reason: “The new wine would burst the skins and be spilled, and the skins would perish.” Old wineskins, biblical scholars say, would typically be stretched to the limit or become brittle as wine had fermented in them.