Regulatory and reimbursement hurdles are key factors blocking broader adoption of digital pathology. But the technology is already having an impact, enabling patients to grasp a firmer hold of the wheel in directing their care, said Keith J. Kaplan, MD, a pathologist and laboratory medical director in Charlotte, NC.

“This may be a little uncomfortable for some, but the idea is that digitized slides allow for democratized medicine and for patient and consumer access to their slides in an open and transparent fashion,” Dr. Kaplan said in a CAP TODAY webinar presented last month in collaboration with Ventana Medical Systems …

Lead item for CAP TODAY’s “Put It on the Board” section. The whole shebang.