Introduction

How Exponential-e is supporting innovations in digital pathology across the UK’s healthcare sector

How PACS solutions are transforming the way healthcare organisations utilise their data

Digital pathology - the practice of digitising glass specimen slides to enable more effective data management and cross-site collaboration -is an increasing priority for numerous organisations across the UK healthcare sector.

To support this, Exponential-e supplies the highly secure critical infrastructure needed to host a fully integrated Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) solution stack – all delivered as a fully managed service, with full UK data sovereignty This empowers healthcare organisations to deploy their own launchpad for effective digital pathology in a matter of weeks, not months.

By bringing clinical, radiologic, and genomic data into the Cloud, organisations are able to optimise patient outcomes and enable more effective collaboration between healthcare professionals, wherever they are located.

Traditional methods can take circa two weeks from preparation to diagnosis.

The result:

More efficient workflows, analysis, and reporting

Digitising physical specimens and storing them in the Cloud allows for highly streamlined pathology workflows and more effective management of unstructured data, which - in turn - means a faster turnaround for patient diagnoses. At the same time, the integration of cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and image analysis offer new opportunities for innovation across the sector.

Safe, secure retention of healthcare data

When records are stored securely in the Cloud, they become fully non-perishable and the risk of misidentification is minimised with specimen histories and annotations readily accessible, whenever and wherever they are required. All this is supported with effective data governance, backups, and archiving.

New paths to effective collaboration

A world-class PACS solution allows colleagues across multiple sites to effectively collaborate on digital pathology projects – including second opinions and access to specialists’ input – whether they are on-site or connecting remotely, with zero compromise in accuracy, efficiency, or security.

More effective use of resources

Avoid overspend and free internal IT teams of the need to manage multiple department-specific storage silos, while adopting a more scalable, more secure approach to long-term retention of critical data, in full compliance with all applicable regulations.