The potential benefits of digital pathology are enormous. The existence and broad content of the Digital Pathology Association conference speaks to this. Migration to digital practice involves and affects many stakeholders, many systems, and many processes, making it a challenging endeavour. The good news is that this is not a completely de novo problem and you are not without resources to draw upon. DPA and SIIM (the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine) have established a relationship to share information, experience, and best practices across their two communities. Some aspects of digital pathology are unique while others are common to, or at least analogous to, medical imaging informatics in other specialties, some of which have accumulated decades of experience in "going digital" and making imaging part of the enterprise. The common aspects represent technologies and efficiencies that can be used off the shelf, or adopted and adapted. The unique aspects represent details that can be used to improve enterprise systems to better support pathology needs. This session will highlight SIIM resources relevant to the digital pathology journey, and present technical and clinical/operational experiences from a recent digital pathology adoption project at a large academic hospital. Our communities work best when we share and learn from each other.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Leverage DPA & SIIM education and community resources to adopt digital pathology technology, workflows, and standards
2. Apply Enterprise Imaging and SIIM best practices to digital pathology Image Management System implementation and support
3. Illustrate benefits of a digital pathology workflow and medical imaging for improved diagnosis, efficiency, and collaboration

A pathologist does far more than sign out cases. Why should our digital platforms be built for only one part of the job?

In a single day, a pathologist may diagnose, consult, teach, collaborate, and do research…and leverage AI at every step. For decades, the microscope supported all these roles. But digitally, they’re often built as separate systems: one for clinical practice, others for consultation, education, or research.

What if you could connect them?

In this workshop, leaders from major digital pathology programs will show how they are using PathPresenter's scanner-agnostic, AI-agnostic, LIS-agnostic platform to build connected ecosystems with the pathologist back at the center. See how a single digital environment can support:

• Clinical sign-out: Integrated viewing, collaboration, annotation, and AI.
• Expert consultation: Connect subspecialty expertise across institutions and geography without moving glass.
• Education: Move beyond multiheaded microscopes and static PowerPoint to teach, collaborate, and share globally.
• Research: Find cases, connect images with data, collaborate, and create datasets for computational pathology.

Hear directly from the experts doing it:

Dr. Rajendra Singh
University of Pennsylvania | Founder, PathPresenter

Dr. Swati Suutarwar
The Ohio State University

Dr. Matthew Hanna
UPMC

Dr. Junya Fukuoka
Nagasaki University

Dr. Archana Shenoy
CCHMC

See how leading pathologists are using connected digital workflows today—and what they learned building them.

Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how clinical care, consultation, education, research, and AI can exist within one connected digital ecosystem—and ideas they can take back to -their own institutions.