Streamlining a Patchwork - Exploring the Challenges of Digital Transformation in Pathology: Ethnographic Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To transition to a fully digital workflow, a pathology department in a German university hospital reorganized its processes, upgrading and integrating new technologies such as an updated laboratory information system and high-throughput scanners. While the visions of digital pathology follow a "promissory rhetoric" of improved patient care, studies name technological and professional challenges of digital pathology. We examined the experiences of the pathology staff with the digital transformation process from an occupational health perspective, focusing on the mutual influences between digital transformation and work-related psychosocial demands and resources.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to explore the interactions between occupational health and digi

SUBMITTER: Geisler BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12317291 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature