EDUCATION APPLICATIONS

Medical, dental, and veterinary educators use digital pathology as a means to overcome the shortcomings of traditional glass slide teaching sets and practices. Benefits include:

• No more concerns about slide loss, breakage or fading
• Anywhere, anytime access - no need for microscope or lab
• Enhanced viewing capabilities go beyond microscopes or snapshots. Access entire slide, multiple slides side-by-side, and slide annotations
• Archive and broadly distribute rare slides
• Reduce costs associated with microscope maintenance and the need for microscope rooms
• Built-in information management and advanced editing tools reduce curricula development and classroom prep time

Turn a collection of glass slides into a decision support repository, accessible anywhere, anytime. Annotate digital slides to highlight regions of note or add commentary. Use intelligent data retrieval to pull just the digital slides you need, based on whatever criteria or attributes you desire. View slides in context, alongside related information, which will facilitate self-teaching and decrease the time required by pathologists to research complex pathology cases.

Through digital slide conferencing, create a live, interactive environment for educational conferences and collaboration sessions, where multiple parties in multiple locations can navigate a digital slide and every party sees the same portion of the digital slide, in synchrony. Annotations and standard conferencing capabilities further enhance the experience. To enable more in-depth discussions, digital slides can be made available in advance of the meeting so that participants can pre-review materials and prepare questions in advance.

Digital pathology can help administrators develop highly efficient and cost-effective proficiency testing, with increased convenience for test takers. It is an effective means for distributing testing materials, including rare cases or samples of tissue that do not lend themselves to large-scale slide production.

Digital pathology streamlines the quality assurance process by making digital slides readily available for QA review, without having to package and ship glass slides. Digital slides can be truly blinded, concealing the original diagnosis and the identity of the pathologist who signed off on the report, enabling read-overs that are potentially free from bias.

Spectrum Education is a comprehensive, web-based course management system. It provides an easy-to-use software platform that allows educators to create their own digital classrooms. Educators can manage volumes of digital slides in the context of courses and lessons. Spectrum Education provides advanced functionality including, security, data management, image management, intelligent data retrieval, viewing digital slides, and digital slide conferencing.