Vol. IX, No. 3Archive > March, 2008

Path Lab

How Would You Like to Receive Your Path Reports?

Julia Dahl, MD

How would you like to receive your pathology reports? Electronically? Online? Or the old-fashioned (paper) way — by courier, fax or express mail? The need for cost containment and workflow efficiency as well as the adoption of electronic health records has led to new options for pathology report delivery and distribution. Here's help sorting though the many choices you have nowadays.

 
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