Low-contact and high-interconnectivity pathology (LC&HI Path): post-COVID19-pandemic practice of pathology.
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Date
2020-10-01ICR Author
Author
Arends, MJ
Salto-Tellez, M
Type
Journal Article
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The COVID-19 pandemic situation may be viewed as an opportunity to accelerate some of the ongoing transformations in modern pathology. This refers primarily to the digitalisation of the practice of tissue and cellular pathology diagnostics. However, it is also an opportunity to analyse the modus operandi of a discipline that has been practised in a similar manner for more than 100 years. The challenge is to define the next generation of interconnectivity tools that would be necessary to achieve a new operational model that, while ensuring low face-to-face interaction between the main players of the diagnostic pipeline, allows maximum interconnectivity to serve our patients and the immediate teaching and research needs associated with clinical tissue/cellular samples. This viewpoint aims to describe what this new paradigm, a low-contact and high-interconnectivity pathology (LC&HC Path) operation, may require in the near future.
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Subject
Humans
Pneumonia, Viral
Coronavirus Infections
Telepathology
Telemedicine
Pandemics
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Research team
Integrated Pathology
Language
eng
License start date
2020-10
Citation
Histopathology, 2020, 77 (4), pp. 518 - 524
Publisher
WILEY