Digital pathology in the time of corona

The 2020 COVID-19 crisis has had and will have many implications for healthcare, including pathology. Rising number of infections create staffing shortages and other hospital departments might require pathology employees to fill more urgent positions. Furthermore, lockdown measures and social distan...

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Published inJournal of Clinical Pathology Vol. 73; no. 11; pp. 706 - 712
Main Authors Stathonikos, Nikolas, van Varsseveld, Nadege C, Vink, Aryan, van Dijk, Marijke R, Nguyen, Tri Q, Leng, Wendy W J de, Lacle, Miangela M, Goldschmeding, Roel, Vreuls, Celien P H, van Diest, Paul J
Format Journal Article Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.11.2020
BMJ Publishing Group
Subjects
Betacoronavirus
Cellular biology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Digital archives
Employees
Global Health
Humans
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
Infection Control - methods
Infrastructure
Interprofessional Relations
Laboratories
Medical supplies
Meetings
Microscopy
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pathology
Pathology, Clinical - instrumentation
Pathology, Clinical - methods
Pathology, Clinical - organization & administration
Personal protective equipment
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Review
SARS-CoV-2
Social distancing
Telepathology - instrumentation
Telepathology - methods
Telepathology - organization & administration
medical informatics computing
telepathology
information technology
image processing, computer-assisted
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Summary:The 2020 COVID-19 crisis has had and will have many implications for healthcare, including pathology. Rising number of infections create staffing shortages and other hospital departments might require pathology employees to fill more urgent positions. Furthermore, lockdown measures and social distancing cause many people to work from home. During this crisis, it became clearer than ever what an asset digital diagnostics is to keep pathologists, residents, molecular biologists and pathology assistants engaged in the diagnostic process, allowing social distancing and a ‘need to be there’ on-the-premises policy, while working effectively from home. This paper provides an overview of our way of working during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis with emphasis on the virtues of digital pathology.
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ISSN:0021-9746
1472-4146
DOI:10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206845