The Case for Web Reporting
Web reporting allows us to begin the process of integrating information from our multiple legacy systems into a patient or disease specific "laboratory view" of the patient.
Web reporting allows us to begin the process of integrating medical knowledge in the form of URLs, support groups and critical paths tied by hyperlink to information in the pathology report.
Web reporting (with integrated images, information and knowledge) is the ideal platform for knowledge reuse in the form of educational case databases and CME.
The web report, especially the image-enhanced report, is an ideal platform from which to build real time interactions between pathologists and clinicians and pathologists and patients.