Pioneering Digital Pathology Solution Adopted by a University Hospital in The Netherlands

A university hospital in the Netherlands has become one of the first such hospitals in the world to fully digitize its pathology department.

The solution significantly increases the efficiency of the pathology workflow by enabling pathologists to review primary diagnostics cases digitally, and also improves collaboration between radiologists and pathologists, leading to more efficient care of cancer patients.

The digital pathology solution was provided by Sectra (Linköping, Sweden) and implemented by the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU; Utrecht, Netherlands), and enables the hospital to store, view and share digital pathology images.

The digital pathology solution uses the same platform as Sectra’s radiology Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), a system that the UMCU has been using for ten years to store and manage radiology images. More...