First Trans-Pacific Digital Case Conference conducted on PathXchange

PathXchange (Px), a global online pathology community, announced it conducted its first trans-Pacific digital case conference on March 17, 2010. The virtual case conference included two leading hospitals in Mumbai, India -- the Hinduja National Hospital and Lilavati Hospital -- and the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the United States (UNMC). 

Dr. Subodh Lele of UNMC, Dr. Anita Bhaduri of Hinduja Hospital, Dr. R. B. Deshpande of Hinduja Hospital, Dr. Chandralekha Tampi of Lilavati Hospital, and Dr. Meenal Hastak of Lilavati Hospital led the 1.5 hour live discussion over ten cases. The cases were scanned using BioImagene’s iScan Coreo™ system and uploaded on PathXchange. 

“Utilizing PathXchange’s global collaboration capabilities to conference with pathologists half way around the world in real time was a unique and very rewarding experience for me. The cases from India that I saw and shared with my colleagues here in the U.S. were fascinating,” shared Dr. Lele.  

The virtual collaboration meeting was held the day before a major inter-hospital conference – the Senior Surgical Pathologist’s Meeting (SSPM). Eighteen of Mumbai’s major teaching and private hospitals participated in reviewing the same cases during the SSPM, where results from the digital case conference were discussed.

“Hosting the virtual case conference on PathXchange allowed us to facilitate the exchange of information and gave a new dimension to expert opinion from across the globe. The slides looked excellent on screen and the exchange of ideas added value to the interpretative skills,” recounted Dr. Bhaduri.

The cases discussed during this conference can be accessed under the Senior Surgical Pathologist’s Meeting Group on PathXchange.
About PathXchange
PathXchange is a vendor-neutral, not-for-profit Web site for the global pathology community, to promote digital pathology. PathXchange brings the field of pathology into the digital age with Web 2.0 features designed to promote the exchange of pathological cases, ideas, knowledge, information, products, and services. PathXchange is sponsored by BioImagene, a leader in providing innovative digital pathology solutions for clinical diagnostics and drug discovery.