Dissecting the Business Case for Adoption and Implementation of Digital Pathology: A White Paper from the Digital Pathology Association.

Giovanni Lujan¹, Jennifer C Quigley², Douglas Hartman³, Anil Parwani¹, Brian Roehmholdt⁴, Bryan Van Meter⁵, Orly Ardon⁶, Matthew G Hanna⁶, Dan Kelly⁷, Chelsea Sowards⁸, Michael Montalto⁹, Marilyn Bui¹⁰, Mark D Zarella¹¹, Victoria LaRosa¹², Gerard Slootweg¹³, Juan Antonio Retamero¹³, Mark C Lloyd¹⁴, James Madory¹⁵, Doug Bowman¹⁶

¹Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

²LabCorp Oncology, Burlington, NC, USA.

³Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

⁴Department of Pathology, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, La Canada Flintridge, CA, USA.

⁵Barco, Inc. Wauwatosa, WI, USA.

⁶Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.

⁷Inform Diagnostics Irving, TX, USA.

⁸LUMEA Lehi, UT, USA.

⁹PathAI Boston, MA 02215, USA.

¹⁰Department of Anatomic Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.

¹¹Johns Hopkins Medicine Pathology Informatics, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

¹²Education Services Department, Oracle Corp, Austin, Texas, USA.

¹³Philips, Best, NL, The Netherlands.

¹⁴Inspirata, Inc. Tampa, FL, USA.

¹⁵Department of Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.

¹⁶Indica Labs Corrales, NM, USA.

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Abstract

We believe the switch to a digital pathology (DP) workflow is imminent and it is essential to understand the economic implications of conversion. Many aspects of the adoption of DP will be disruptive and have a direct financial impact, both in short term costs, such as investment in equipment and personnel, and long term revenue potential, such as improved productivity and novel tests. The focus o…

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