Episode 5 - The State of Remote Diagnosis
This episode's guest: Dr. Matthew Hanna
Our guest this episode is Dr. Matthew Hanna, Director of digital pathology informatics and breast pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Hanna serves as a member on the CAP Informatics Committee as well as an editor for the Journal of Pathology Informatics. He's going to talk to us about his experience in the digital pathology program at Memorial Sloan Kettering as well as recent advances in digital sign out.
What is the current status digital sign out? What obstacles and resistance have we faced in remote sign out? What are the regulatory concerns? And of course. the implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic? Were pathologists ready for remote sign out? What regulatory barriers came down to facilitate remote sign out and which if any of these gains will become standard practice after the pandemic is over?
More About Matthew G Hanna, MD
Matthew G Hanna, MD is the Director of Digital Pathology Informatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is an Assistant Attending of Breast pathology and Informatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he completed his Oncologic Pathology fellowship training. Prior appointments include being a Clinical Instructor of Pathology Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed his Pathology Informatics fellowship. He completed his residency training at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr Hanna serves as a member on the CAP Informatics Committee and served as a junior editor for the Journal of Pathology Informatics. He has strong interests in clinical and pathology informatics, computational pathology, and breast pathology.