New life for old cellular pathology: a transformational approach to the upcycling of historic e-pathology records for contemporary clinical uses

David Anthony Rew, Alan Arthur Hales, David Cable, Keith Burrill, Adrian C Bateman

ABSTRACT

Aims Cellular pathology (’e-pathology’) record sets are a rich data resource with which to populate the electronic patient record (EPR). Accessible reports, even decades old, can be of great value in contemporary clinical decision making and as a resource for longitudinal clinical research. The aim of this short paper is to describe a solution in a major UK University Hospital which gives immediate visibility and clinical utility to 30 years of e-pathology records

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