PathPresenter Workshop: Beyond the Demo: Building the AI-Powered Pathology Workflow

Digital pathology will only succeed when it delivers in the real world, not just in the demo room. This workshop explores how open, vendor-agnostic systems can connect the complete digital pathology workflow: scanning, automated QC, case accessioning, LIS/EHR integration, high-performance viewing, with AI models seamlessly integrated for analysis and reporting. We'll then look beyond today's workflow to the next steps for pathologists: intelligent tools that augment, not replace, the pathologist's capacities. From case assembly, history retrieval, and triage, through feature detection, measurement and report completion, AI is already available to save pathologists time and effort, and it can amplify its benefit by making the result of pathologists' work truly computable. Drawing on real-world implementations at leading institutions, and with practical perspectives from technology partners and customers, we'll examine what works at clinical scale now and preview capabilities that will drive the evolution of pathology in the days and years to come.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the essential components of an open, vendor-neutral digital pathology workflow
2. Understand why interoperability is key to effective clinical deployment in real world use
3. Appreciate how an emerging "AI exoskeleton" can augment the pathologist across the diagnostic workflow