In this episode of “Answers From the Lab,” host Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, sits down with Joaquin Garcia, M.D., chair of Mayo Clinic’s Division of Anatomic Pathology and digital pathology program to discuss how the advent of digital pathology is changing patient care at Mayo Clinic.

Specific topics of discussion include: 

• What is digital pathology?
• How digital pathology changes the way pathologists work.
• How digital pathology impacts and improves patient care.
• Recent digital pathology innovations at Mayo Clinic.
• The future of digital pathology and what needs to be done to ensure continued improvement for patients and pathologists.

Podcast episode

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