Presented at the 2000 APIII Conference Return to 2000 Abstract Index
WEB-BASED TELEPATHOLOGY
UPMC Health System
Department of Pathology, Division of Pathology Informatics
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Yukako Yagi
Yukako
Yagi1, Dilip Gupta MD2, John Gilbertson MD1
1Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 2Department of Pathology, Magee Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Web-Based Telepathology System was designed to be flexible, ubiquitous and user friendly. To use the system, one needs only access to the World Wide Web and the ability to acquire digital images and save them to the hard drive. Though for many purposes a dynamic, real time telepathology system would be a significant improvement over the current "static" design, an economical system that could be deployed widely over the Internet was requested by many pathologists.
At UPMC, we had developed an early version of Web-Based Telepathology System several years ago. This year, we upgraded the system to make it more flexible and easier to administrate. The system now supports most common image formats and images of any size (limited by the network and the local computer). It also confirms case status, allows for inactivation of cases and supports interactive discussion of a case between the referring pathologist, primary consultant and any secondary consultants.
Because the system does not require maintainance of a client at the remote site, it is well-suited for international consultations and the consultations between UPMC and non-affiliated hospitals. This poster/paper introduces the workflow and referring / consultant interaction on a series of breast cancer cases.
