Using Telepathology to Advance Patient Care and Lab Workflows

Leveraging Remote Options for IFS Consultation and ROSE

Support for intraoperative frozen section (IFS) consultation is core to good patient care. However, there are persistent shortages of qualified pathologists and lab staff available to review these time-sensitive cases. Combined with the increasing incidence rates of disease, additional challenges exist for the resources responsible for supporting IFS workflow and completing daily clinical diagnostic cases. Further, rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) has required on-site pathology resources to read and diagnose samples. Increasing caseloads mean supporting ROSE frequently results in delays for routine diagnostic work.

In the past, IFS and ROSE have required a pathologist’s physical presence in the location where samples are being prepared. However, with the persistent lack of qualified pathologists to review these cases, novel solutions are needed. Whole slide imaging (WSI) has advanced to a point where it can be used to convert the support of IFS and ROSE from on-site to remote.

Learning Objectives

This webinar will help you:

• Identify the challenges presented for IFS and ROSE procedures due to shortages of qualified pathologists and lab staff
• Discover how WSI enables remote diagnostics for IFS
• Explain how WSI enables remote diagnostics for ROSE
• Evaluate specific technology to enable remote diagnosis for IFS and ROSE

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Fisher Healthcare is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.™ Program. One P.A.C.E.™ credit-hour will be provided for this complimentary basic level program.

Hannah Krigman, MD

Hannah Krigman, MD, is a professor of pathology at the Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine, where she is the section head for gynecologic pathology. She attended Amherst College and received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) School of Medicine. Dr. Krigman is board certified in both anatomic pathology and cytopathology. She is a two-time recipient of the John M. Kissane Award for Resident Education. She has a longstanding interest in digital pathology and has over 10 years of experience in performing remote, digital immediate consultations for both cytology and frozen sections.

Dylan Miller, MD

Dylan Miller, MD, is a professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and the director of anatomic pathology at Intermountain Central Laboratory, which serves Intermountain Healthcare’s statewide hospital system in Utah. He received his medical degree from the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed a residency and fellowship in pathology at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Miller's expertise includes cardiovascular and renal pathology, with an interest in cardiac transplantation pathology, vasculitis syndromes, aortopathies, immune-mediated diseases, and digital pathology.