About API

The Mission of the Association for Pathology Informatics is to promote the field of pathology informatics as an academic and a clinical subspecialty of pathology.

Specific Aims
The data sets used in pathology informatics include clinical tests, anatomic pathology reports, image files, telepathology data, and large scale experiments including gene, proteomic and tissue array studies. The Association will support advances in the field of Pathology Informatics through research, education, scientific meetings, and through electronic and printed communications.

The Association will develop standards for reporting, transferring, storing, and merging confidential and other pathology-related information. The Association will play an active role in legal, ethical, social, regulatory, and governmental issues related to pathology informatics, and this will also seek to develop relationships with other professional societies and industry partners that share similar interests and goals.

What We Do
Pathology Informatics involves collecting, examining, reporting, and storing large complex sets of data derived from tests performed in clinical laboratories, anatomic pathology laboratories, or research laboratories in order to improve patient care and enhance our understanding of disease-related processes.

Pathology Informaticians seek to continuously improve existing laboratory information technology and enhance the value of existing laboratory test data, and develop computational algorithms and models aimed at deriving clinical value from new data sources.

What happens when two of the most successful Pathology Informatics meetings join forces to become one unified venue?  The answer is simple: The Pathology Informatics Summit, as made possible by the Association for Pathology Informatics. 

With over 40 years of combined experience in the running of both the APIII and Lab Infotech Summit meetings, the current conference organizing committee deeply understands the field of Pathology Informatics, and the contemporary issues in our specialty that demand coverage.  Without question, the PI Summit 2021 promises to be outstanding, and should be on the calendar for anyone interested in staying current in this very fast-paced and important subspecialty of pathology.

The Association for Pathology Informatics will provide trainee awards to the meeting for pathologists in training and other graduate students working in the pathology informatics spaces. Please see the Trainee Award section through the link to apply.  In addition, the API membership itself allows for substantial discounts in meeting registration. Register early to assure your seat.

The Pathology Informatics Summit 2021 Meeting will be the best assemblage to date of the top thought leaders in clinical laboratory informatics and anatomic pathology informatics, with in-depth coverage of machine learning and artificial intelligence, imaging analytics and whole slide imaging workflow solutions. The agenda will continue to address cutting-edge topics of interest to all informaticists.

After completing this activity participants will be able to 1) understand new opportunities for data management and collaboration within the healthcare enterprise, 2) improve and grow their clinical informatics skills, 3) initiate machine learning and AI tool development, 4) meet colleagues and actively discuss informatics topics with subject matter experts, 5)find mentoring opportunities in informatics, and 6) develop new research collaborations and stimulate new research opportunities.