The Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution can be interoperable with your institute’s LIS, Electronic Medical Record or other relevant information system.
The purpose of interoperability with an information system is to enable data exchange between your existing lab management solutions with our pathology solution.
That way digital pathology becomes part of your normal lab operations.
The LIS data is used to match the scanned slide barcodes to the correct case and patient information and present this in the Image Management System.
This way there is end-to-end specimen accountability, which is critical in light of patient safety concerns.
Our team will work together with you to create a custom deployment design that fits your institute’s needs for interoperability with existing systems.
While resources are stretched, there is inherent inefficiency in the traditional pathology workflow.
The traditional microscope and glass slide-based way of working has clear inefficiencies, in particular in terms of time spent with logistics.
For example, in a laboratory with an average of 220 cases per day, 13.5 hours are reported dedicated for slide logistics.
This also impacts the lead time for delivery of second opinions.
Furthermore, this relying on glass slides and physical specimens may introduce more room for error in specimen traceability.
With this pace of change and demand for services Pathology departments need to find new ways of working to futureproof themselves to continue to deliver high standard of healthcare.
1日あたり計520分の標本配布準備が36分に短縮
120分の標本移動時間が0分に短縮
病理医の先生の手元でのガラスハンドリング時間もなくなる。
Beyond a clearance to use safely for routine diagnostics, the productivity gains of using this system for routine diagnostics are measured, proven and clear.
These statistics were measured objectively as part of a peer-reviewed study at a laboratory doing 220 cases per day on average.
The time spent physically preparing cases in the traditional workflow is 520 minutes per day. This contrasts the 36 minutes per day spent organizing cases digitally with the Image Management System, where labels and tags can be applied, prioritization can be set, and pathologists can be assigned.
The time spent with the trolley transport around the lab in the traditional workflow was 120 minutes per day.
This is a key advantage of digital pathology, there are no more trolleys or pigeon holes for case retrieval, and the dispatch is within one click.
In the traditional lab, the pathologists spent considerable time taking slides from the tray.
In the digital system, cases are opened and viewed with one mouse click. And when integrated to the LIS, the patient data are all available as well.
Pathologists report a better way of working: perceive higher quality of their diagnosis, more productive, fewer patient mix-ups and better diagnostic consensus.
1 Survey with 23 physicians at Granada University Hospitals, 2018. 2 Survey with 52 pathologists, lab managers and lab technicians in Europe, 2018. Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions.
Philips is committed to advancing pathology and have a large international team, strong innovation program and global partnerships to create this bright future.