The government recently posted and Interim Final Rule for Health Information Technology standards for EHR (electronic health record) development. You can read more about this at this link http://bit.ly/7OxNt3. I will be creating a page dedicated to this information on this site later, so stay tuned. It will be located at HITECH.

Wishing all of our users from across the globe a very merry and joyous Holiday Season with the hope for all across the world. Please share this Dove of Peace most graciously submitted by Roberta Joseph from Youngstown, Ohio.

Please add your Holiday and New Year wishes for your colleagues around the world here, by adding a comment.

Be safe and of good cheer!!

We upgraded to Tikiwiki 4.0. This upgrade included security and feature enhancements. In addition, you will see at the bottom of your browser, a Google Friend Connect social toolbar. Please feel free to join up. This will allow you to connect with other CYTOPATHNETeer's while browsing CYTOPATHNET. You can also leave comments here as well.

ACOG Releases New "First Pap" Test Recommendations

Read the ACOG Release here.

Read the article in the New York Times.

We upgraded to Tikiwiki 3.3. We also modified the site style. The prior style does not format correctly with this latest version. However, this new style should be easy to read as well.

Nominate Tiki for the 2009 Community Choice Awards

Nominations are now open for the 2009 Community Choice Awards

Please help nominate Tiki by using this link r clicking on the picture below.: http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=TikiWiki%20CMS/Groupware&project_url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/

I am asking our visitors to help our Tikiwiki developer friends by nominating there project on Sourceforge. I know most of you are saying, "who?....what?....why?...". The CYTOPATHNET site you visit is based on the efforts of an open source community of dedicated passionate developers who have on many occasions, helped me with this site when I was having difficulties. They represent a true example of teamwork and collaboration across countries...a true worldwide social community who came together to build something. My hats off to them. I would greatly appreciate it, if you would join me in thanking them for their contribution by voting for their Tikiwiki CMS/Groupware system by clicking the link below. Thank you all!!!

Nominations close on May 29, 2009, so time is short. The most nominated projects will become finalists in their categories. Finalists will be announced on June 22nd. The winners will be revealed on July 23 during our infamous party at OSCON.

The Cytology Proficiency Testing Proposed Rule was published in the Federal Register on January 16, 2009.

Site Upgrade to v 2.4.

We upgraded to Tikiwiki 2.4. This will help site performance. We were able to fix the image thumbnail issue. In addition, some security fixes were applied.

May 13 has been designated National Cytotechnology Day (NCD). Since 1985, NCD commemorates Dr. George Papanicolaou's contributions to the field of medicine, occuring on his birthday each year. May 12-18, 1985 became the first ever National Cytotechnology Week.

This past week was Lab Week...how did you celebrate it in your lab?

Please submit your stories to us to share what your lab did to celebrate. Continue reading to see how we celebrated in our Lab.