Figure 1.

Depiction of levels of interconnectivity required to facilitate a satisfactory remote pathology operation. The black frame includes requirements for an individual diagnostic operation; the red frame shows intradepartmental activities, both in diagnostic consultation and sign‐outs; the green frame depicts the connectivity required for a successful intrahospital clinical consultation system, the most complex version of which is the multidisciplinary meeting; the blue frame shows a connectivity model for interdepartmental consultations, with other members of a single hospital system or in the context of expert consultation practice; the dashed blue line incorporates classic multiple‐header microscope‐type teaching, which can be intra‐ or interdepartmental or interhospital. See text for further explanation.