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Aperio Introduces SecondSlide™ Digital Slide Sharing Network
Digital pathology leader improves laboratory efficiency with affordable service offering
Vista, CA – December 4, 2008 – Aperio Technologies, Inc., (Aperio), a global leader in digital pathology for the healthcare and life sciences industry, introduces SecondSlide, a service for sharing digital slides (whole slide images) from multiple sources, for multiple purposes.
SecondSlide improves lab efficiency and reduces costs associated with managing glass slides by providing pathologists with web-based access to a variety of digital slides, including H&Es, IHCs, frozen sections, pap smears, blood smears, and Gram stains. SecondSlide is compatible with digital slides created by current slide scanners, and supports digital grossing stations and images captured from cameras mounted on microscopes. "SecondSlide makes digital pathology more affordable for low-to-moderate volume slide sharing applications," said Dirk Soenksen, Aperio's chief executive officer. "Customers can pay a monthly fee that includes a custom-configured scanner and usage of the slide sharing network, or they can utilize a SecondSlide scanning center. Interest has been phenomenal."
SecondSlide helps pathology groups, hospitals, and IDNs provide pathology expertise in multiple locations—including at remote or satellite locations—at different times. For clinical trials sponsors, SecondSlide facilitates confirmatory diagnoses and will improve the consistency of histological interpretations.
Customers gain rapid and secure web access to digital slides and associated data from SecondSlide's data center. The SecondSlide data center runs Spectrum™, Aperio's web-based information management (pathology PACS) software, providing access to functions such as digital slide conferencing, image analysis, and archival/retrieval. Customers can also use the data center to create and access digital slide repositories for self-education, tumor boards, and decision support.
Digital slides can be copied to the data center from remotely-located slide scanners. Remote scanners communicate with the data center using only outbound connections that require no modifications to an institution's firewall, overcoming the major technical hurdle for the widespread adoption of digital slide sharing. Alternatively, customers can send glass slides to a scanning center for subsequent digital slide access from the data center.
Jared Schwartz, MD, PhD, Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, NC and President of the College of American Pathologists said, "SecondSlide will benefit hospitals in rural areas with no sub-specialty expertise because it will allow them ready access to specialists with the expertise they require for the best patient care."
The SecondSlide digital slide sharing service will be commercially available in the first quarter of 2009. For additional information please go to www.secondslide.com.
About Aperio
Aperio is digitizing pathology. We provide systems and services for digital pathology, which is an environment for the management and interpretation of pathology information that originates with the digitization of a glass slide. Aperio's award-winning ScanScope® slide scanning systems and Spectrum™ digital pathology information management software improve the efficiency and quality of pathology services for pathologists and other professionals. Applications include education, remote viewing, archival and retrieval, basic research and image analysis. Aperio's products are FDA cleared for specific clinical applications, and are intended for research and education use for other applications. For clearance updates and more information, please visit www.aperio.com.
Myla Wagner
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