Dr. Kaplan is a native of Chicago and a graduate of Michigan State University and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC. While at Walter Reed, Dr. Kaplan was named Resident of the Year, and in conjunction with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Dr. Kaplan founded and directed the Army Telepathology Program. This Program connected 25 hospitals internationally for consultation via telepathology. Dr. Kaplan was also with Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota as an Associate Professor of Pathology of Mayo Medical School. Since then he has served as CMO for Corista and is an active member of the College of American Pathologists and executive board member of the American Pathology Foundation. Since 2007, Dr. Kaplan has been publisher of The Digital Pathology Blog at tissuepathology.com, the industry’s leading pathology blog.

Title: “Digital Pathology: The Past, Present and Future”

15 Years of Digital Pathology: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t and What’s Coming

Abstract:

This presentation will focus briefly on historical experience and initial use cases, how changes that are happening to pathology impact business operations, making a business case for digital pathology and why the time is now to adopt digital pathology. Mention of the importance/impact of cloud computing, hand-held computing and social media that coincided with maturation of this technology will also be discussed. The need for image analysis with clinically approved protocols for improved consistency and reproducibility particularly in an era when the use of companion diagnostics will be addressed. More recently, significant changes in healthcare delivery systems and reimbursements for technical and professional services for laboratories and pathologists have started to change the landscape that make digital pathology more attractive than in the past 15 years.