Sirintrapun S Joseph, Artz David R
Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 633 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA.
Surg Pathol Clin. 2015 Jun;8(2):255-68. doi: 10.1016/j.path.2015.02.014. Epub 2015 Mar 26.
This article provides surgical pathologists an overview of health information systems (HISs): what they are, what they do, and how such systems relate to the practice of surgical pathology. Much of this article is dedicated to the electronic medical record. Information, in how it is captured, transmitted, and conveyed, drives the effectiveness of such electronic medical record functionalities. So critical is information from pathology in integrated clinical care that surgical pathologists are becoming gatekeepers of not only tissue but also information. Better understanding of HISs can empower surgical pathologists to become stakeholders who have an impact on the future direction of quality integrated clinical care.
