PathXchange- Fastest growing online digital pathology community

[sandhyasampath8]

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PathXchange.org(Px) is a free professional networking portal for the global pathology community, promoting digital pathology and telepathology. Px brings the field of pathology into the digital age with Web 2.0 features designed to promote exchange of pathological cases, ideas, knowledge, information, products, and services. Cases and information can originate from anywhere, from any platform, and shared with the sub-groups of your choice.

PathXchange.org(Px) = Pathology 2.0 with Web2.0 features

Leveraging the latest cloud computing technologies, Px is an extremely robust and scalable platform. Px combines the elements of case gallery (e.g., MyPacs), community content contribution (e.g., YouTube), and professional networking (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn) to provide a friendly online home-place for pathologist to stay connected with their professional network, keep their professional knowledge current, and contribute to the cause of furthering the advances of the global pathology community.

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[DrBloodmoney]

Two suggestions:

1. If you are going to get me to use your website these days, I really don't want yet another username and password for your site. Please use OpenID or equivalent.

2. I wonder what your conversion of users who hit your frontpage and then register? Have you A/B tested this against allowing potential users to actually see what content you guys offer? I have zero interest in filling out your registration form before I see what is being offered.

Just some (hopefully) constructive criticism.

 

[zao275]

Yeah it would be nice to be able to see stuff without signing in. But it actually is a pretty awesome site, DrBloodMoney, just for the record. I do hate having so many usernames and passwords though.

 

[sandhyasampath8]

Hi DrBloodmoney

Thank you for your constructive feedback!

When we launched our site in 2008, we required people to login to access content. However now we have made it open access, and will be soon revising our site to provide more open access to the content from the home page. However, users will still need to login to comment or submit a case.

Your suggestion about having an openID login is great! I think we'll definitely plan to roll it in the up-coming upgrades.

Currently, you can access the site content using these direct URLs; we'll be linking them from the home page soon!
http://www.pathxchange.org/casegallery
http://www.pathxchange.org/groups
http://www.pathxchange.org/forum
http://www.pathxchange.org/digital-pathology-mini-lecture-series

-Sandy Sampath
www.pathxchange.org

Two suggestions:

1. If you are going to get me to use your website these days, I really don't want yet another username and password for your site. Please use OpenID or equivalent.

2. I wonder what your conversion of users who hit your frontpage and then register? Have you A/B tested this against allowing potential users to actually see what content you guys offer? I have zero interest in filling out your registration form before I see what is being offered.

Just some (hopefully) constructive criticism.

 

[Parts Unknown]

I propose a pathology dating/hookup site next. Perhaps bodyfluidXchange.org is still available.

 

[pathstudent]

Marvelous website.

I wonder about the cost:reimbursement ratio if we bought a number of those slide scanners and put them in various community pathology groups and they could scan in all their difficult cases for consult. Same day turn around time on consults! Probably too expensive to justify it at this time but has major major po.

 

[pathchik]

longtime lurker, but I had to chime in.
While the pathxchange website from bioimagene is interesting, i personally prefer and recommend google's wave: https://wave.google.com/wave/

awesome way to keep your current/past colleagues in touch by sharing interesting cases. plus, the google picasso format for sharing/uploading pics is superb. and it's private, so no random tools perusing your posts and adding random garbage comments (i.e. pathstudent-esq).

as an aside and plea to other current pathologists, i'd like to remind you this:
beware the hand that feeds you...

while bioimagene might seem like a friendly company just doodling along, trying to promo their new toys and become the next aperio, watch your back. although they claim they are not in the "lab business" i know of several recent situations where they have come in and taken away business from community pathologists across the country...i.e. ripping podlab bx's and whatnot. ask the company and i promise you they will deny it to the fullest, but keep in mind that their CMO (Dr Monroe) has a podlab business on the side and is involved in this process. how "convenient". if that's not greasy then i don't know what is.
I sincerely hope the company realizes just how easily they're gonna get blueballed when word spreads about all this. despite what folks might think, our path community is small and all in all, i think we'd stick up for each other, especially in financially-driven times like this. who'se gonna want to buy their slide scanners when the company is taking away business from right underneath your nose?

i'd be most interested in others' experiences. if you haven't lost business just yet, trust me, start asking questions from your greasy rep, b/c i promise you their long-term goal is to make path like rads has now become (almost completely-digital) and if that involves taking away your business by all means they'll do it.

 

[pathstudent]

longtime lurker, but I had to chime in.
While the pathxchange website from bioimagene is interesting, i personally prefer and recommend google's wave: https://wave.google.com/wave/

awesome way to keep your current/past colleagues in touch by sharing interesting cases. plus, the google picasso format for sharing/uploading pics is superb. and it's private, so no random tools perusing your posts and adding random garbage comments (i.e. pathstudent-esq).

as an aside and plea to other current pathologists, i'd like to remind you this:
beware the hand that feeds you...

while bioimagene might seem like a friendly company just doodling along, trying to promo their new toys and become the next aperio, watch your back. although they claim they are not in the "lab business" i know of several recent situations where they have come in and taken away business from community pathologists across the country...i.e. ripping podlab bx's and whatnot. ask the company and i promise you they will deny it to the fullest, but keep in mind that their CMO (Dr Monroe) has a podlab business on the side and is involved in this process. how "convenient". if that's not greasy then i don't know what is.
I sincerely hope the company realizes just how easily they're gonna get blueballed when word spreads about all this. despite what folks might think, our path community is small and all in all, i think we'd stick up for each other, especially in financially-driven times like this. who'se gonna want to buy their slide scanners when the company is taking away business from right underneath your nose?

i'd be most interested in others' experiences. if you haven't lost business just yet, trust me, start asking questions from your greasy rep, b/c i promise you their long-term goal is to make path like rads has now become (almost completely-digital) and if that involves taking away your business by all means they'll do it.

"blueballed"?

Here is a random garbage comment for you. How are you going to blueball the CMO and his imaging company?

 

[Path_Anon]

fyi --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_balls

= "ostracized"

thank you for your honest and apparently upsetting post pathchick. sadly, i've actually heard a very similar concern through the path grapevine, that bioimagene is indeed involved in the podlab business although they've "conveniently" (as you put it) hidden all this info b/c technically it's their cmo/cfo or whatever that's running the operation with is own side kickback lab. pretty scammy stuff. but then again, when you see how flamboyant they've been at recent uscap's (vs their more modest and professional rivals) frankly i'm not surprised.

sorta like the greasy high school kid showing up to prom with a snazzy rented suit, slick-backed hair, having literally bathed in cologne and winking at every girl that walks by.

lame, just lame.

 

[pathstudent]

longtime lurker, but I had to chime in.
While the pathxchange website from bioimagene is interesting, i personally prefer and recommend google's wave: https://wave.google.com/wave/

awesome way to keep your current/past colleagues in touch by sharing interesting cases. plus, the google picasso format for sharing/uploading pics is superb. and it's private, so no random tools perusing your posts and adding random garbage comments (i.e. pathstudent-esq).

as an aside and plea to other current pathologists, i'd like to remind you this:
beware the hand that feeds you...

while bioimagene might seem like a friendly company just doodling along, trying to promo their new toys and become the next aperio, watch your back. although they claim they are not in the "lab business" i know of several recent situations where they have come in and taken away business from community pathologists across the country...i.e. ripping podlab bx's and whatnot. ask the company and i promise you they will deny it to the fullest, but keep in mind that their CMO (Dr Monroe) has a podlab business on the side and is involved in this process. how "convenient". if that's not greasy then i don't know what is.
I sincerely hope the company realizes just how easily they're gonna get blueballed when word spreads about all this. despite what folks might think, our path community is small and all in all, i think we'd stick up for each other, especially in financially-driven times like this. who'se gonna want to buy their slide scanners when the company is taking away business from right underneath your nose?

i'd be most interested in others' experiences. if you haven't lost business just yet, trust me, start asking questions from your greasy rep, b/c i promise you their long-term goal is to make path like rads has now become (almost completely-digital) and if that involves taking away your business by all means they'll do it.

You got a lot of nerve to just go off and take the time to personally insult me for no reason and then committ libel against that MCO.

A good pathologist wouldn't have to worry about losing their business to a guy with a slide scanner. He is probably an industrious pathologist who is more sophisticated and offers a superior service.

 

[Napoleon1801]

Is this "online community" even peer reviewed?

 

[zao275]

Is this "online community" even peer reviewed?

It seems to be more peer reviewed than many journals actually. If you choose to share a case with the public, for instance, then any other member can look at your case, post comments (viewable to all), ask for more clinical info or special stains, or disagree with a diagnosis. It has the feeling of an unknown conference or recut set more than a textbook. I really like the site a lot and feel that it is a great way to share the numerous very nice recuts that I have in my collection with other pathologists around the country and the world. I hate seeing old recut collections that are faded and rarely used. I put a lot of work into mine, so I am choosing to scan it in and share it with everyone.

In regards to "peer review", wouldn't it be great if medical journals allowed readers to rate articles and leave comments? Sure, there would be some spam and trolls to deal with, but how much more quickly would you be able to see which articles are most interesting and useful (versus waiting for other articles to cite them)? I have always thought that would be very cool. Pathxchange has that kind of a setup/interactivity, which I really like. Just my 2 cents.

 

[pathstudent]

while bioimagene might seem like a friendly company just doodling along, trying to promo their new toys and become the next aperio, watch your back. although they claim they are not in the "lab business" i know of several recent situations where they have come in and taken away business from community pathologists across the country...i.e. ripping podlab bx's and whatnot. ask the company and i promise you they will deny it to the fullest, but keep in mind that their CMO (Dr Monroe) has a podlab business on the side and is involved in this process. how "convenient". if that's not greasy then i don't know what is.
I sincerely hope the company realizes just how easily they're gonna get blueballed when word spreads about all this. despite what folks might think, our path community is small and all in all, i think we'd stick up for each other, especially in financially-driven times like this. who'se gonna want to buy their slide scanners when the company is taking away business from right underneath your nose?

i'd be most interested in others' experiences. if you haven't lost business just yet, trust me, start asking questions from your greasy rep, b/c i promise you their long-term goal is to make path like rads has now become (almost completely-digital) and if that involves taking away your business by all means they'll do it.

Pathchik still needs to come on here and prove her statements. She has made defamatory statements regarding that CMO and committed libel. She needs to prove he is greasy and is using the company as a front to steal business.

People have been successfully sued for making libelous anonymous comments on the internet and in blogs. I hope the CMO does it to her.

C'mon pathchik back it up.