Informatics
Informatics is the management of information.
Pathologists, unfortunately, only have abysmal tools for this job.
The two main information systems (Softpath and CoPath) are pathetic and look like they are out of the early 1990s.
Software in use at pathology departments
Information systems
- Softpath - a really crusty 'ol turd. It is hard to believe people buy licenses for this.
- CoPath - pathetic software... considered state-of-the-art. It sucks less than Softpath.
Dictation
Database
Open source
Open source in pathology appears to be a long way off. One paper,[1] gives me a bit of hope -- though I think this is a voice in the wilderness.
IMHO, most pathologists understand very little about computers and those that think they know something often know precious little.
The radiologists are more on the ball here, e.g. UCLA's OpenSourcePACS.[2]
References
- ↑ 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.