What is Telepathology?
Telepathology is the practice of pathology (consultation, education and research) using telecommunications to transmit data and images between two or more sites remotely located from each other. Telepathology allows a pathologist practicing in a geographically distant site to consult another pathologist for a second opinion, or other pathologists who are experts on particular disease processes. Telepathology has been proven to be an accurate and cost effective way to support such an exchange between pathologists. Time consuming, labor and cost intensive exchanges of specimens by post or other means of transportation can be avoided.
