ABSTRACT
While the first actual telepathology consultation was successfully conducted in the late 1960s,1,2 the growth of telepathology over the years has been far slower than expected. During the 1990s, synchronous advances in telecommunications (including globalization of the Internet) and digital imaging technology, as well as decreasing prices of increasingly powerful computing equipment, resulted in enhanced development of telepathology systems and availability along multiple lines (static-image systems, dynamichybrid systems, and, most recently, virtual slide systems). Nonetheless, ten years later, the predicted telepathology explosion has yet to come to pass.
