DISTRIBUTION OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY REPORTS BY A COMPUTER-DRIVEN TELEPHONE FACSIMILE (FAX) DEVICE

The current environment of medical economics increasingly mandates tha t written reports on surgical pathology specimens be distributed as so on as they are verified by responsible staff members and that they fin d their way infallibly to clinical physicians attending the patients i n question. This brief overview describes the institutional experience s of the authors in managing this aspect of data delivery at large tea ching hospitals. A system for FAX-transmittal of surgical pathology re ports is described, used in conjunction with a commercial computer sof tware package that was designed explicitly for anatomic pathology. Cop yright (C) 1994 by W.B. Saunders Company