Who Will Resurrect the " Futurescape of Pathology " Conference?

Hospital-based clinical laboratories are facing threats in various forms including the changing face of ambulatory care. I described this threat in a recent blog note (see:Retail Drug Stores Emerging as Healthcare Hubs for First-Tier Primary Care). The basic problem for pathology is that inpatient admissions are decreasing and new ways to deliver ambulatory care will siphon patients away from hospital ambulatory care settings and hospital-based testing. This is only one challenge facing pathology and the clinical labs. We are in urgent need of a pathology conference with a strategic orientation that can provide answers about how to respond to the changes that are occurring in healthcare delivery and the lab testing market.The long defunct Futurescape of Pathology conference sponsored the theCAP Foundation was such a strategically-oriented conference. It was launched in 2007 and took place from that year through 2011 with no conference in 2010 (see: Pathology 2.0 - Nine Years Later) Here's a key paragraph from the introductory remarks of Dr. Mary Kass, M.D., at the conference in 2008 to give you a sense of the orientation of the event (see:Futurescape of Pathology 2008 Conference: Welcome and Introductory Comments):What does the future of pathology look like in an era of personalized medicine? How will personalized medicine impact the way we practice in the next 3 to 5 to 10 years? What is really going on with the biomarker race? What is industry's ro...
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