Med-Tech Innovation December 3, 2021
Andrew Goulter, associate director, medical technology division for Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini Invent, examines how pathology can take advantage of the boom in digital technology use.
Digital innovation in all its forms continues to transform our lives, reshaping the way we work, rest, and play and seemingly touching every aspect of human endeavour. So, it seems to me rather strange – incredible even – that most pathology specimens are still stored on glass slides. Fundamentally, the process of taking samples, staining them, and then examining has hardly changed over the last century.
There is, of course, another way. Glass slides can now be captured digitally and the approval by the FDA in 2017 for the...