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Low‐contact and high‐interconnectivity pathology (LC&HI Path): post‐COVID19‐pandemic practice of pathology
Author(s) -
Arends Mark J,
SaltoTellez Manuel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
histopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.626
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1365-2559
pISSN - 0309-0167
DOI - 10.1111/his.14174
Subject(s) - interconnectivity , covid-19 , pandemic , pathology , face (sociological concept) , medicine , path (computing) , computer science , artificial intelligence , sociology , disease , social science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
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.