22^nd Annual Pathology Congress

Current Trends in Pathology

Pathology groups face a number of challenging pathology trends in the era of radical healthcare reform. One of the primary trends is that like clinical laboratories, these businesses are carrying significant and potentially unsustainable levels. Medical laboratories and pathology groups are also facing enormous levels of change in their clinical, regulatory and financial environments.

Other pathology trends include:

• Growing emphasis on the continuum of care
• Increasing patient interaction directly with the lab organization
• Mounting demands of interoperability across a proliferation of disparate information technology systems to achieve meaningful use