Journal
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 2, Pages 129-132Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206786
Keywords
education; information technology; pathology; surgical; hospital; pathology department
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- PathLAKE Centre of Excellence for digital pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) from the Data to Early Diagnosis and Precision Medicine strand of the government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
- PathLAKE [104689, 18 181]
- National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
- Molecular Diagnostics Theme
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on our diagnostic services, and the use of digital pathology is on the rise globally, playing a role in maintaining diagnostic practices.
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our diagnostic services at a time when many histopathology departments already faced a diminishing workforce and increasing workload. Digital pathology (DP) has been hailed as a potential solution to at least some of the challenges faced. We present a survey of pathologists within a UK National Health Service cellular pathology department with access to DP, in which we ascertain the role of DP in clinical services during this current pandemic and explore challenges encountered. This survey indicates an increase in uptake of diagnostic DP during this period, with increased remote access. Half of respondents agreed that DP had facilitated maintenance of diagnostic practice. While challenges have been encountered, these are remediable, and none have impacted on the uptake of DP during this period. We conclude that in our institution, DP has demonstrated current and future potential to increase resilience in diagnostic practice and have highlighted some of the challenges that need to be considered.
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