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February 2024—The key to using ChatGPT and other large language models effectively in pathology is understanding not only what they are designed to do but, just as importantly, what they are not designed to do, says Eric Glassy, MD, medical director at Affiliated Pathologists Medical Group, Rancho Dominguez, Calif., and past chair of the CAP Information Technology Leadership Committee.

December 2022—To safely and effectively extend the process of conducting point-of-care testing to staff from various hospital departments is no easy feat. That’s why four full-time employees at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles oversee POC testing, relying heavily on middleware, analytics, and exception-management tools.

December 2021—Like death and taxes, cyberattacks targeting health care organizations are a certainty, but taking proactive breach mitigation measures and developing a thorough response plan can lessen, or even prevent, a devastating blow.

October 2021—Given Penn Medicine’s reputation for high operational standards, it’s not surprising that the developers of its new Center for Applied Health Informatics set lofty goals for the center: coordinate the efforts of multiple internal technology-related groups to further improve systems institutionwide and position the health system as a global leader in health informatics.

April 2021—The rewards of data analytics can be sizable, but so can the challenges of extracting data, transforming it, and loading it into the appropriate systems to facilitate the functionality.

November 2020—As LigoLab was designing a direct-to-consumer portal for laboratory testing early this year, company CEO Suren Avunjian turned his focus to when in 2021 he would release it, not knowing what was around the corner. But as the number of COVID-19 cases grew to pandemic proportions, Avunjian realized he could and should redesign the portal to streamline SARS-CoV-2 testing.

May 2020—Imagine the potential educational benefits of pathology residents being able to see the precise path that the eyes of experienced pathologists take as they scan a whole slide image. Preliminary research has suggested that showing residents visual representations of a pathologist’s eye-tracking movement overlaid over a whole slide image can impact how they learn, says Sharon E. Fox, MD, PhD, a pathologist at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System and associate director of research and development, Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

March 2020—At trauma hospitals, simplicity is considered a virtue. That’s why when Jansen Seheult, MD, and his colleagues decided to use machine learning to predict massive transfusion needs, they chose a decision tree algorithm. “It was easy to implement as if/then rules, and it didn’t require computational resources to deploy,” says Dr. Seheult, clinical assistant professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

January 2020—Pathologist Ron B. Schifman, MD, practices what he preaches and preaches about what others practice relative to implementing such computer-based test-utilization management techniques as soft stops, hard stops, and those that fall in between. In a 2019 American Association of Clinical Chemistry presentation on strategies and tactics for test-utilization management, and in an interview with CAP TODAY, Dr. Schifman offered insights into a variety of information technology-based interventions.

Digital health education: imperfect to imperative: October 2019—Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA, is a passionate advocate for educating medical students and practicing physicians about digital health technologies and their role in patient care. Without increased emphasis on organized digital health education, the medical field cannot fully embrace such technologies, says Dr. Meyers, president and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs and co-editor of Digital Health Entrepreneurship, released this year by Springer Books.

April 2019—The R&B classic “Time Is on My Side” may be an anthem for rejected lovers, but a new virtual reality teaching tool that allows students to “visit” the pathology lab without leaving the classroom may soon have NYU medical students humming the song’s refrain.

February 2019—Digital pathology RFPs: from the questions to selections: To those who request the information and those who supply the information, requests for proposal, better known as RFPs, can be groanworthy. Yet laboratories planning to purchase a digital pathology system for clinical use should seriously consider going through the painstaking process, even if their institutions don’t require it, says Liron Pantanowitz, MD, vice chair of pathology informatics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

In molecular testing labs, gaps between actual and desirable LIS capabilities
December 2018—Flashback to 2013: Alexis B. Carter, MD, then director of pathology informatics at Emory University Hospital, was contemplating whether other pathology labs nationwide were facing the same challenges managing molecular testing data as she and her colleagues. So she decided to find out. Dr. Carter conducted a survey, and the responses confirmed her suspicions: Most laboratory information systems fall short in providing the infrastructure for complex molecular and genomic testing.

Oct. 24, 2018—Xifin unveiled its Xifin Revenue Performance Management 10 to help diagnostic providers improve revenue, performance, and client and patient engagement. Xifin RPM 10 is a machine learning-enabled diagnostic revenue cycle management system that delivers an FASB-, GAAP-, and SOX-compliant and GL-ready financial package. Its new business intelligence capabilities include subject-oriented and aggregated data, data visualization, and analytics to ...

January 2015—As the trend in cloud computing continues, in part as a way to reduce capital investment costs, laboratory decision-makers must learn the nuances of how to vet this type of vendor and negotiate software-as-a-service agreements. Without this knowledge, they risk entering into a less-than-satisfactory contractual arrangement that can cost them money, industry experts say.

September 2015—How site visits led to an LIS selection at Stanford: Seven gets all the attention, but five turned out to be the lucky number for a Stanford University Medical Center team charged with selecting a new laboratory information system. Visiting five installation sites in five cities in five days was “probably the most important aspect of the whole process,” says Brent Tan, MD, PhD, director of clinical laboratory informatics at Stanford.

June 2015—Consortium gaining ground in quest for interoperability; Xifin purchases VisualShare; CDC releases update on electronic lab result reporting to public health agencies; Enzo Life Sciences releases ELISA plate reader app; Orchard Software features white papers on website; Imprivata expands reach with acquisition of HT Systems; Sampleminded teams up with Exact Sciences

May 2015—A lab IT strategic plan: from guidance to lessons learned: For those with even the slightest bit of health care business acumen, it should come as no surprise that when health systems expand quickly through mergers and acquisitions, hospital labs often struggle to communicate and cooperate with their counterparts at far-flung sister sites. Faced with such a challenge, the lab at the rapidly growing Geisinger Health System embraced a solution.

July 2014—Xifin, the financial cloud computing company for diagnostic service providers, formed a medical advisory board that will share its extensive expertise in pathology operations and workflow, lab automation, regulatory requirements, clinician needs, and pathology informatics important to the company’s product development and strategic initiatives.