Page 23 - UHN Year In Review 2014-15: Patients As Partners In Care

Highlights

• Serving as system leaders
around quality,diagnostics
and planning

• Investing in fully integrated
Laboratory Information
System (LIS) platform across
all partner sites

• Driving digital pathology

• Enhancing the understanding
of the value of laboratory
medicine to stakeholders,
including physicians and
patients

Dr. Eva Szentgyorgyi, a pathologist in the Laboratory Medicine Program, uses digital pathology
to review cases and make diagnoses. (Photo: UHN)

Meeting with the patient means that “We might be the ones who look a pathologist at the bedside as
they do not have to wait for results, down the microscope and make the partners in care.”
and also allows the patient to be a diagnosis,” added Dr. Gilda da Cunha
direct part of the diagnostic process. Santos, pathologist, LMP. “But when
They can ask questions about the we discuss our findings with the
procedure, talk to the pathologist surgeons, clinicians, radiologists and
about their diagnosis, and be as other healthcare providers about
informed as possible about what it our patient and our diagnosis, they
means for their care. all really see the value of having

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