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Mobile telepathology, a new intringuing tool

The mobility of information, patient data and images introduced by telemedicine/ telepathology systems designated a completely new viewpoint in pathology. Mostly two areas of diagnostic work are so far covered by telepathology service - second opinion/expert consultation and frozen section diagnosis. Frozen section diagnosis, is still a very important issue. Smaller hospitals, with no sufficient material for a resident pathologist often could benefit by introduction of telepathology. As in many of these hospitals surgery requiring frozen section diagnosis is not performed on a daily basis the telepathology system is not in full use, producing an unfavorable cost-benefit ratio. Also establishing a fully equipped frozen-sections lab yields additional costs and personnel cutting frozen sections only occasionally often produce sub optimal results. In this the introduction of a mobile telepathology unit could solve some very important problems. The unit should include a fully equipped mobile frozen sections lab including a macro stand and a microscope with CCD TV color camera and a notebook (laptop) computer. The telepathology software used must be stabile and versatile like the Pharos/ISSA system (VAMSTECH, Croatia) used by us. By such a system and synchronization of operation schedules hospitals in a radius of up to 200 km around the referral center could be covered without exceeding standard working hours. The ISSA-server based system option alerting the consultant and referring pathologist by SMS that a consultation case is in his mailbox at the server ads additional time effectiveness.

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