Pathology - More than Whole Slide Images:

Unlocking a Hospital System’s LIS and Enabling Enterprise Imaging

Join DesAcc CEO Hugh Lyshkow, Standford Health Care & Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Thursday, Jun 9th 1:15 to 2:15 PM ET - In-Person & Online

While Medical Pathology is a dominant clinical discipline in human disease diagnosis and therapy it remains largely dependent on microscope images and glass slide technologies that were created and standardized many decades ago. In sharp contrast radiologists, who also use images in their clinical work, have embraced advanced imaging technologies and the DICOM format for displaying, storing, and transmitting radiology images, thus enabling patient information to be communicated across the enterprise. Adoption of similar digital technologies in Pathology has been difficult due to data storage in proprietary silos as well as the extensive variety and complexity of data types involved with non-Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) pathology data.

With the planned introduction of a new Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and pathology Laboratory Information System (LIS) at Stanford Health Care, a proof-of-concept project was undertaken to prove the feasibility of DICOMizing the institute’s legacy non-WSI pathology data, siloed in the organization’s LIS. The result of the project was that the legacy LIS images were successfully mapped into the DICOM format, images transcoded, transmitted, and displayed in a PACS. In a presentation at the 2022 Society for Imaging and Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting (Kissimmee, FL, June 9-11, 2022) representatives of Stanford University, Marquette University, Indiana University and DesAcc EMEA Ltd. will report details of the process involved in DICOMizing Stanford’s non-WSI LIS data and provide recommendations and lessons learned that can help facilitate the transition of pathology data into the larger enterprise imaging space.

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