Rapid Deployment of Whole Slide Imaging for Primary Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology at Stanford Medicine: Responding to Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Context.—

Stanford Pathology began stepwise subspecialty implementation of whole slide imaging (WSI) in 2018 soon after the first US Food and Drug Administration approval. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services waived the requirement for pathologists to perform diagnostic tests in Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-licensed facilities. This encouraged rapid implementation of WSI across all surgical pathology subspecialties.

Objective.—

To present our experience with validation and implementation of WSI at a large academic medical center encompassing a caseload of more than 50 000 cases per year.

Design.—

Validation was performed independently for 3 subspecialty services with a diagnostic concordance threshold

SUBMITTER: Rojansky R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9904534 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature