Difference between revisions of "Informatics"

'''Informatics''' is the management of information.

 

Pathologists, unfortunately, mostly have poor tools for this job.   

 

*[[CoPath]] - considered state-of-the-art... good only by comparison.

Open source in pathology appears to be some way off.  One paper,<ref name=pmid15563662>{{cite journal |author=Rubin A |title=An open pathology computer system |journal=J. Clin. Pathol. |volume=57 |issue=12 |pages=1252–3 |year=2004 |month=December |pmid=15563662 |pmc=1770514 |doi=10.1136/jcp.2004.020826 |url=}}</ref> gives me a bit of hope -- though I think this is a voice in the wilderness.   

The radiologists are more on the ball here, e.g. [http://www.mii.ucla.edu/opensourcepacs-download-2/ UCLA's OpenSourcePACS].<ref name=pmid17249408>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Bui | first1 = AA. | last2 = Morioka | first2 = C. | last3 = Dionisio | first3 = JD. | last4 = Johnson | first4 = DB. | last5 = Sinha | first5 = U. | last6 = Ardekani | first6 = S. | last7 = Taira | first7 = RK. | last8 = Aberle | first8 = DR. | last9 = El-Saden | first9 = S. | title = OpenSourcePACS: an extensible infrastructure for medical image management. | journal = IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed | volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 94-109 | month = Jan | year = 2007 | doi =  | PMID = 17249408 }}</ref>  A few institutions (mostly American) are coming to understand this and have formed the [http://www.opendp.org/ Open Digital Pathology Consortium].

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