Low-contact and high-interconnectivity pathology (LC&HI Path): post-COVID19-pandemic practice of pathology

Mark J Arends, Manuel Salto-Tellez

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)518-524
Number of pages7
JournalHistopathology
Volume77
Issue number4
Early online date17 Sept 2020
DOIs
Publication statusEarly online date - 17 Sept 2020

Keywords

  • Betacoronavirus/physiology
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Telemedicine
  • Telepathology

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