There is an increasing focus on interpretative diagnostic errors in healthcare. Recent studies¹ at UPMC have concluded that incremental treatment costs due to interpretative errors for the 12 most common cancers are $5.88 million per year.
Digital pathology* has been shown to improve quality assurance and patient safety through a variety of applications. Peer-reviewed studies have demonstrated the use of digital pathology in pathologist’s workflow increases productivity by at least 13%.¹
Sharing digital whole-slide images with remote pathologists improves interpretive accuracy. This is especially important at remote sites where sub-specialist expertise is required.
The use of image analysis routines has been demonstrated to improve reproducibility and accuracy in quantitative applications.
Image-sharing applications coupled with image analysis tools enable pathologists to deliver "much more than morphology-based diagnosis. Pathology labs essentially have the ability to act as knowledge hubs for diagnostic medicine, leading to improved and enhanced patient care.”2
Mikroscan partners with QualityStar to provide Quality-as-a-Service (QaaS) for Anatomic Pathology applications, in external, secure, cloud-based case review services.
Digital pathology creates a permanent digital record of your tissue or cytology sample. These images can be shared with research and academic colleagues regardless of location. Advantages of digital pathology include instantly retrieving, viewing and analyzing images from large digital archives.*
