Virtual Informatics College
    (Online Courses on Pathology
     Informatics Topics)

• Digital Camera and Image Basics
• Electronic Medical Record
• Interfaces and Middleware:LIS Connectivity Options That Can Improve and Streamline Laboratory Operations
• LIS Fundamentals
• Medical Coding Basics
• Telepathology and Whole Slide Imaging

 CAP DIHIT Committee

• Diagnostic Intelligence and Health Information Technology Committee

Events

• CAP ’13

CAP Today Articles

Newsbytes

• Spectra Laboratories streamlines processes with McKesson LIS
  - March 2010
• CAP releases updated XML version of cancer checklists
  - February 2010
• Government sets up grants for IT training programs
  - February 2010

Feature Stories

• Smarter, smoother decision management through middleware
  - February 2010

Archives of Pathology &
     Laboratory Medicine Articles

• Informatics Articles (Using the search term “informatics”)
• Informatics Articles (Using the search term “computers”)

DIHIT Topics

• Laboratory Interoperability Best Practices White Paper (PDF, 612 KB)
• ONC National Survey on Health Information Exchange in Clinical Laboratories
  (PDF, 246 KB)
  • Read letter from CAP President Stanley J. Robboy, MD, FCAP (PDF, 76 KB), to Farzad Mostashari, MD, MSc, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Informatics Resources

• Technical Glossary
• On-line Dictionary of computing
• The Informatics Review
• Bibliography  (PDF, 49 KB)
• Informatics Reference Books

Related Associations

• Association for Pathology Informatics
• American Medical Informatics Association
• HIMSS

Standards Organizations

• DICOM
• IHE
• Health Level Seven

Pathology Informatics
     Blogs

• Lab Soft News
• Digital Pathology

Case Studies

• Whole Slide Imaging in Pathology at Baystate Medical Center  (PDF, 16 KB)