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As the healthcare standards keep rising, the need and demand to revamp
pathology is even more evident than in recent times, writes Reetika Bose of
Elets News Network (ENN).and relative paucity of experts in
histopathology on the other. Trained
and competent pathologists would
not prefer to work in tier 2 cities and
district health centres. Establishing
a laboratory equipped with trained
technicians and a digitisation
equipment would facilitate study
of the digitised slides by any expert
pathologist anywhere in the country.”
As the healthcare standards keep
rising, the need and demand to revamp
pathology is even more foreseen than
in recent times. Pathology needs to
be ahead of time which will directly
imply the capacity to work faster and
with more productivity. In that lies the
ascent of rise of digital pathology.
“Introduction of low cost scanners
albeit with acceptable shortcomings
compared with the high through
put equipment, would be the wayP
athology is one of the most
significant mainstays of the
healthcare ecosystem. Thanks
to the paradigm shift in the healthcare
segment that led revolution of digital
pathology. For the past 150 years,
pathology has been the essence of the
health sector with pathology being
at the forefront in understanding
and diagnosing diseases for decades.
While the medical industry has been
blessed with incredible technology
and unbelievable innovation on
other fronts, the core of the diagnosis
process continues to incline heavily on
pathologists in labs.
Talking about tackling the digital
pathology space, Dr Jayaram N
Iyengar, Managing Director, Neuberg
Diagnostics said, “The scenario is
complex with high establishment
cost of digital scanners on one handforward”, Dr Iyengar added.DIGITAL PATHOLOGY OVER
CONVENTIONAL PATHOLOGY
In spite of witnessing the quick
advancement of innovative medical
technology such as blood-drawing
robots, augmented reality, synthetic
tissues, and machine-run organs,
pathology continues to depend on
the similar old technique of looking
at tissues with a microscope within
laboratory walls.
However, experts are of the opinion
that with innovations in pathology,
the pathologist can have a complete
control of the entire process. Live
sharing of images becomes easy and
high resolution snapshots are made just
by a click on the use.
“It takes an average pathologist
almost 20 minutes to scan and analyse