Mobile health, also known as mHealth, is a rapidly growing area of healthcare. The term refers to the use of mobile devices in medicine and public health. Medical apps aren’t particularly new, but until recently they’ve been targeted primarily towards patients; they focus on diets or medicine, or allow patients to record heart rate, blood sugar
The pathologist is in the sometimes uncomfortable position of being expected to make a ‘definitive’ diagnosis. While clinicians are often seen as undertaking an ‘art’ of interpretation and assumption, the pathologist is perceived to employ a range of tests and stains to arrive at a ‘real’ diagnosis. However, pathological reporting is rarely that simple, with
As the field of outcomes research has developed in the last decade, surgeons and hospitals have become aware that post-operative adverse events are common. These events contribute greatly to the increasing and already significant cost of healthcare [1]. In order to improve healthcare and assess the effectiveness of a surgery or program, hospitals must measure post-operative
The pathology report is often the main communication tool between pathologist and clinician. It should provide all essential information on the resected specimen which will be used to guide patient treatment. With increasing complexity of diagnostic criteria and adjuvant testing, especially in oncology, the volume of required information steadily rises. Writing reports is absolutely central
In healthcare improving efficiency without negatively impacting patient outcomes is paramount. Finding more efficient workflows is critical not just to improving the patient experience but also to reducing costs and waste. Synoptic reporting has been consistently shown to be a faster, cheaper, and more accurate method of reporting than narrative transcription [1]. By providing consistently
