Informatics
Informatics is the management of information. Pathologists, unfortunately, mostly have poor tools for this job.
Software in use at pathology departments
Information systems
- Softpath.
- CoPath.
- MEDITECH.
- Millennium.
- Nexus pas.net.
Dictation
Content management
Biobanking management
- Centraxx
Pathology wikis
Main article: Pathology wikis
Open source
Open source in pathology appears to be some way off. One opinion paper[2] addresses this issue.
The radiologists are more on the ball here, e.g. UCLA's OpenSourcePACS.[3]
A few institutions (mostly American) are coming to understand this and have formed the Open Digital Pathology Consortium (opendp.org). There is also an open slide project (openslide.org).
Virtual slides
- There is a push for an open virtual slide format.
- A free C library exists to read whole-slide images.[4]
Health informatics directory
- The University of Freiburg put together a list in 2010.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Heilman, JM.; Kemmann, E.; Bonert, M.; Chatterjee, A.; Ragar, B.; Beards, GM.; Iberri, DJ.; Harvey, M. et al. (2011). "Wikipedia: a key tool for global public health promotion.". J Med Internet Res 13 (1): e14. doi:10.2196/jmir.1589. PMID 21282098.
- ↑ Rubin A (December 2004). "An open pathology computer system". J. Clin. Pathol. 57 (12): 1252–3. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.020826. PMC 1770514. PMID 15563662. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770514/.
- ↑ Bui, AA.; Morioka, C.; Dionisio, JD.; Johnson, DB.; Sinha, U.; Ardekani, S.; Taira, RK.; Aberle, DR. et al. (Jan 2007). "OpenSourcePACS: an extensible infrastructure for medical image management.". IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 11 (1): 94-109. PMID 17249408.
- ↑ URL: http://openslide.org/. Accessed on: 3 May 2013.
- ↑ URL: [http://hiww.org/ca.html http://hiww.org/ca.html]. Accessed on: November 8, 2014.