Digital pathology is a technique which is already transforming the way cancer diagnostic services are delivered in the United Kingdom, with digital slides providing a flexible, transferable diagnostic tool that can improve patient safety, service efficiency, service quality and staff recruitment and retention.
In this talk, Dr Williams will explain how Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust digitised their single site laboratory in the North of England, and how this digital pathology deployment has grown to a regional and national digital pathology programme (the National Pathology Imaging Co-Operative, or NPIC), connecting hospitals across the country via a shared, vendor neutral diagnostic archive. NPIC was founded as a unique collaboration between the National Health Service, industry and academia to improve patient outcomes and stimulate research and innovation.
In addition to enhancing and future-proofing clinical pathology services, this network also supports the development and evaluation of pathology image based artificial intelligence to aid the 21st century pathologist.
