APIII 99 BREAKOUT SESSION: Web-based Tools for Pathologists

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER - GENERAL PATHOLOGY SIGNOUT TOOLS

Immunohistochemistry, antibody selection, differential diagnoses

PubMed -- Medline Search from National Library of Medicine in NIH

UPMC MARS

TPIS staging (Modified HAI)

Intranet in Pathology (on call schedules, telephone/pager directory)

Journal supbscriptions available thru OVID in the Pitt Library

Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer and WHO/ISUP urothelial carcinoma grading

Cancer Staging and other information

Bone Tumor

PittMedNet

Synoptic reports

OTHER RESOURCES

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL & SEARCH ENGINES

Medical Information/Image/Atlas Search Engine

Reference/General Information Search

GENERAL PATHOLOGY RESOURCES

Sites of special interest/Employment/Job opportunities/Patient-oriented

Governmental sites/Regulation issues

Pathology assistance-companies

Professional Societies

Pathology Discussion Group

Universities/Medical Centers

Medical Books on CD

Other Pathology Resources

ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY

General Surgical Pathology

Transplant Pathology: Scoring System

Cytopathology

Autopsy & Forensic Pathology

Surgical Laboratory Information

CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Laboratory Medicine

Molecular Study/Paternity Testing

Laboratory Accreditation/Proficiency Test Issues

PATHOLOGY INFORMATICS

Pathology Informatics/Web-based telepathology

GENERAL PATHOLOGY

Immunohistochemistry, antibody selection, differential diagnoses

*ImmunoHistoQuery -- Search for Immunostain Markers vs. Staining Results http://home.sprintmail.com/~dfrisman/
Immunohistochemistry Home Page - Collections of Links to Immunohistochemistry http://immuno.hypermart.net/

Cancer Staging and other information

*National Cancer Institute http://wwwicic.nci.nih.gov/clinpdq/soa.html
*Cancer staging Information http://www.quailhaven.com/staging.htm
*Harrison Online --
Gynecologic Malignancies http://www.harrisonsonline.com/server-java/Arknoid/harrisons/1096-7133/Chapters/ch-099?Page=1
Lung Cancer http://www.harrisonsonline.com/server-java/Arknoid/harrisons/1096-7133/Chapters/ch-090?Page=6&Sect=Sect7
*Pathology Simplified - links and information about:
Lung Cancer http://www.erinet.com/fnadoc/images/pathol~1/lungca~1/stage.htm
Breast Cancer http://www.erinet.com/fnadoc/
*Oncolink, University of Pennsylvania http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/
*Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer and WHO/ISUP urothelial carcinoma grading http://162.129.103.34/prostate/
*Oncolink, University of Pennsylvania http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/
*Oncolink, University of Pennsylvania http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL & SEARCH ENGINES

Medical Information/Image/Atlas Search Engine

*Virtual Pathology Museum at University of Connecticut Health Center, Pathology Web Server Database Searchable by Specific Disease http://155.37.5.236/PWIndex/PMNT.cfm
*Cytopathnet Image Database http://www.cytopathnet.org/imagedb/
*Medical College of Wisconsin: Department of Pathology Links http://www.mcw.edu/pathol/ed/
The Whole Brain Atlas http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
ImageMed http://www.pathology.upmc.edu/ImageMed/
Finding Images on the Web http://www.bu.edu/library/training/isengines.htm
Columbia University's Image Retrieval Page – WebSeek http://disney.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/
Yahoo's Picture Searcher http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/Pictures/
Health on the Net(HON) - by MedHunt http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/
Altavista's Image Search Engine http://image.altavista.com/
Altavista LookSmart http://altavista.looksmart.com/eus1/eus53940/eus53956/eus54861/eus54926/eus291252/r?l&izf&

Reference/General Information Search

*HSL Online -- Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh http://www.online.hsls.pitt.edu/
*Doctor's Guide to the Internet http://www.docguide.com/
U.S. National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed -- Medline Search from National Library of Medicine in NIH http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Internet Grateful Med (IGM) http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Medscape -- Online Resource for Better Patient Care http://www.medscape.com/

GENERAL PATHOLOGY RESOURCES

Sites of special interest/Employment/Job opportunities/Patient-oriented

CaP CURE - Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostatehttp://tpis.upmc.edu/
Pathologynet http://members.tripod.com/Pathnet/
Mayo Clinic Health Information http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/common/htm/cancpg2.htm

Governmental sites/Regulation issues

Health Care Financing Administration http://www.hcfa.gov/
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/clia/cliahome.htm
How to Read CLIA http://www.vh.org/Providers/CME/CLIA/CLIAHP.html
Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA) http://www.osha.gov/
Joint Commission on Accreditation Of Healthcare Organizations (JACHO) http://www.jcaho.org/
American Accreditation Healthcare Commission (URAC) http://www.urac.org/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/
World Health Organization - Health Topics and Policies http://www.who.int/home/map_ht.html

Pathology assistance-companies

Initial list of Clinical Laboratory Information Systems Vendors from U. Michigan Medical School http://141.214.5.219/pathology_vendor_list_lis.htm
DFD Information Services http://www.dfdis.com/
DIANON Systems - Pathology Services http://www.dianon.com/
IMPATH - The Cancer Information Company http://www.impath.com/
Pathology Translation Service http://www.pathwise.com/
The Lightning Hypertext of Disease, Pathology Informatics, Inc. http://www.pathinfo.com/
PathIT Pathology Online http://www.pathit.com/
AmeriPath, Inc. http://www.ameripath.com/
Health Data Management http://hdm.faulknergray.com/
Apollo Telemedicine http://www.apollotelemedicine.com/
Chi Laboratory Systems Inc. http://www.chilab.com/
ChromaVision Medical Systems, Inc. http://www.chromavision.com/root.htm
TissueInformatics, Inc. http://www.tissueinformatics.com/
Pathology Services, Inc. (Pathology Review) http://www.pathsrv.com/
Cortex, Medical Management Systems http://www.cortexmed.com/
Pathologist Associated Medical Laboratories http://www.palab.com/
Ketchum, Wood, and Burgert Pathology Associates http://www.kwbpathology.com/
Laboratory of Podiatric Pathology http://www.footpathlab.com
Oral Pathology Laboratory, Inc. http://www.oralpathlab.com
Pathology Laboratories of Arkansas, P.A. http://www.pathlabsofark.com
TransMed Network Reference Datab for the Health Care Industry - Online http://www.transmed.net/main.htm
West Coast Pathology Laboratory http://www.wcpl.com
Eurocore http://www.eurocore.com/index.html
e-Medico, LLC http://www.e-medico.com
U S WEST Internet solutions for Fast connection http://www.uswest.com/com/customers/interprise/dsl/fast_facts.html

Professional Societies

Association of American Medical College http://www.aamc.org/
College of American Pathologists (CAP) http://www.cap.org/
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology http://www.uscap.org/
American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) http://www.ascp.org/
American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/
SNOMED International http://www.snomed.org/

Pathology Discussion Group(s)

Information exchange and discussion for all issues in pathology, service, regulation, development, advanced techniques, and informatics http://www.listserv.emory.edu/Archives/patho-l.html

Universities/Medical Centers

*The Digital Slice of Life by University of Utah http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/sol/sss/
*UConn's Pathology Web Server Database Searchable by Specific Disease http://pathweb.uchc.edu/
*INTERNET RESOURCES FOR PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE at University of Michigan medical School, Department of Pathology http://141.214.5.219/pathresourceak/path_resources.html#2
*University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine http://pleiad.umdnj.edu/one.html
*Medical College of Wisconsin: Department of Pathology Links http://www.mcw.edu/pathol/ed
*WebPath at University of Utah http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
Case of the Week http://medstat.med.utah.edu/WebPath/COW/COW.html
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) http://www.afip.org/
UC Davis, pathology course for medical student http://medocs.ucdavis.edu/pmd/course.htm
Cornell University, Department of Pathology http://www.nycornell.org/pathology/
Cornell University Medical College Courseware http://edcenter.med.cornell.edu/Courseware/courseware.html
Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine http://www.emory.edu/PATHOLOGY/
Harvard University, Pathology Network http://www.hmcnet.harvard.edu/pathol/index.html
Mayo clinic http://www.mayo.edu/pathlab/pathmain.htm
Medical Student.com is a digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine http://www.medicalstudent.com/
University of Virginia Health System Department of Pathology http://www.med.virginia.edu/medicine/clinical/pathology/CaseStudies/CaseStudiesHome.html
The University of Iowa, Virtual Hospital http://www.vh.org/Welcome/UIHC/MedMuseum.html
Tumor Board http://www.tumorboard.com/
TumorAltas http://www.d3t.com/tumor/
Indiana University PERLJam 2.01 http://erl.pathology.iupui.edu/
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology http://www.bgsm.edu/pathology/
University of Vermont http://pathology.uvm.edu/
WorldCare Health System http://www.worldcare.com/
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Curriculum Online (PCO) http://www.omed.pitt.edu/

Medical Books on CD

CD-ROM Survey Pages http://cdroms-dvds.org/medical.htm
PEIR Pathology Links: Informatics http://peir.path.uab.edu/links/Informatics/index.html

Other Pathology Resources

WebPath - University of Utah http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
PathMax - Multifunction Link in Pathology from University of South Florida http://www.pathmax.com
The AP Laboratory Information Services group at UPMC http://aplis.upmc.edu/
Links of Interest in Pathology http://www.netins.net/showcase/dendron/pa_index.htm
Pathology Central Source http://206.39.77.2/pathology/hm_pcr.html
Using the Internet as a Research Tool http://www.ualberta.ca/~pletendr/aabb-urls.html
CAP SNOMED ISSUE http://www.cap.org/html/public/snomed_intl.html
The NetCme, The Levitt Radiologic-Pathologic Institute, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center http://netcme.mdacc.tmc.edu/
Clinical Laboratory Science Internet Resources
Oncologic Pathology Internet Resources

ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY

Surgical Pathology

Society for Ultrastructural Pathology - Electron Microscope for Education and Consultation http://sup.ultrakohl.com/
TUMOR ATLAS-Helpful tool for cancer sign out http://www.d3t.com/tumor/
Oral Pathology Lab. http://www.oralpathlab.com/
EM Organelles Tutorial http://zappa.ultrakohl.com/EmOrganelle/organ0.htm

Transplant Pathology

*Transplant Pathology Internet Services in UPMC http://tpis.upmc.edu/
*Schema for Grading Tissue Rejection in Transplant http://tpis.upmc.edu/tpis/schema/index.html
*Modified Hepatitis Activity Index http://tpis.upmc.edu/tpis/schema/mHAI.html

Cytopathology

*CytoLink - Case study http://www.cytology.com/edu/cases/numlst.htm
*Dr. Borkowski's Cytopathology Images http://www.autopsydb.org/aborkows.htm
*CYTOPATHNET http://www.cytopathnet.org/
*Cytopathnet Image Database http://www.cytopathnet.org/imagedb/
NeoPath Home Page http://www.neopath.com/
International Academy of Cytology http://www.cytology-iac.com/
Cytology Links http://www.netins.net/showcase/dendron/cy_index.htm
Breast Cytopathology (Edinburgh University) http://www.ed.ac.uk/~duvall/entry.htm
Cervical Cytopathology (Edinburgh University) http://www.ed.ac.uk/~duvall/eqa/intro.htm
Cervical Dysplasia Tutorial (SUNY Syracuse) http://www.ec.hscsyr.edu/cyto/index.html
Cytolink: Multimedia Cytology Page http://www.ec.hscsyr.edu/cyto/index.html
The Cytology in Munich Homepage http://zytologie.de/english.htm
Urine Sediment Analysis (SUNY Syracuse) http://www.ec.hscsyr.edu/path/urinalysis/frame.htm
CompuCyte http://www.compucyte.com/
National Institutes of Health, Consensus Development Statement on CERVICAL CANCER (include Bethesda system 1991) http://text.nlm.nih.gov/nih/upload-v3/CDC_Statements/Cervical/cervical.html
Tutorials of Cytology, International Academy of Cytology http://www.cytology-tutorial.org/

Autopsy & Forensic Pathology

National Association of Medical Examiners (N.A.M.E.) http://www.thename.org/
Autopsy/Post Service 1-800-AUTOPSY http://www.1800autopsy.com/
Autopsy Tools http://www.neosoft.com/~uthman/autopsy_tools.html
The Routine Autopsy http://www.neosoft.com/~uthman/Autop.html
Forensic Online http://www.forensiconline.com/

Surgical Laboratory Information

StainFile http://members.pgonline.com/~bryand/

CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Laboratory Medicine

Laboratory Medicine -- Online Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Virology from Yale University http://info.med.yale.edu/labmed/online_ed.html
CD Molecules: Human cell surface molecules recognized by the International Workshops on Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigens http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/prow/cd/index_molecule.htm
University of Washington, Department of Laboratory Medicine http://depts.washington.edu/labweb/General/LabMed.Div.html

Molecular Study/Paternity Testing

National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
I.D.N.A. Laboratory, Inc. Genetic identity testing services, paternity & forensic http://www.idnalab.com/
IDENTIGENE, precise paternity identification http://www.identigene.com/index.html
DNA Testing Laboratories http://www.dnapaternitytest.com/ptest/dna-test.htm

Laboratory Accreditation/Proficiency Test Issues

*CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program http://www.cap.org/html/LIP/lap.html
College of American Pathologists http://www.cap.org/
*Also check the Governmental sites/Regulation issue/Other Societies

PATHOLOGY INFORMATICS

Pathology Informatics/Web-based telepathology

UPMC Telepathology http://www.pathology.pitt.edu/TELEPATH/tps_intr.htm
Webslide Server http://www.mcs.net/~bacuslab/WebSlideOverview.html
*Advancing Pathology Informatics, Imaging, and the Internet (APIII) - Electronic Posters
   APIII1996 - http://www.pathology.pitt.edu/apiii/e-poster.htm
   APIII1997 - http://www.pathology.pitt.edu/apiii97/postlst.htm
   APIII1998 - http://www.pathology.pitt.edu/apiii98/e-post.htm
   APIII1999 - http://apiii.upmc.edu/e-p-list.htm
   APIII2000 - http://apiii.upmc.edu/e-p-list.htm
Stanford University Medical Informatics http://camis.stanford.edu/
*University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Center for Biomedical Imaging and Informatics http://pleiad.umdnj.edu/~djf/cbi/
The Journal of Information Technology in Medicine http://www.j-itm.com/
AFIP Telepathology Department http://www.afip.org/telepathology/

The Resource Links are subject to change based on current evaluation from users, recommend for useful signout/pathology resource links. Please Email: Wen-Wei Chung, MD PhD at chungww@msx.upmc.edu or Thomas Molina, MD PhD at molinajt@msx.upmc.edu. Updated 12/12/2000