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SHELTON, Connecticut, June 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of
Mayo Clinic's digital health and practice transformation
initiatives, the Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and
Pathology has initiated an enterprise-wide digital pathology
implementation of the Sectra digital slide review and image storage
and management system to enable digital pathology.
"As Mayo Clinic continues to lead the transformation of health
care delivery and accessibility, the laboratories and pathology
practice play an essential role," says William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., president of
Mayo Clinic Laboratories and chair of the department. "This system
implementation will elevate our pathology practice by enabling
digital collaboration among pathologists throughout the Mayo Clinic
system and, ultimately, Mayo Clinic Laboratories clients around the
world. In the near future, our pathologists will be able to
virtually collaborate with colleagues anywhere to provide answers
to the most complex pathology cases in order to help our partners
deliver the best patient care."
In collaboration with Sectra, a digital slide review and image
storage and management system has been implemented for the Mayo
Clinic practice in Rochester for the first phase of the roll out.
Once proof of concept, system testing, and configuration activities
are complete, the digital pathology solution will be
introduced gradually to Mayo Clinic departments throughout
Rochester, Florida, and
Arizona, as well as the Mayo
Clinic Health System. The new digital intake process will be
piloted with a domestic Mayo Clinic Laboratories client later this
year.
"We are confident the Sectra digital pathology solution will
positively impact patient care by improving access and availability
of our patients' pathology material in a digital form, and
facilitating enterprise-wide collaboration and integration of
innovative technologies," says Taofic
Mounajjed, M.D., Mayo Clinic pathologist and one of the
leaders of the digital pathology initiative. "Our pathologists and
allied staff are looking forward to the opportunities that digital
pathology will bring in transforming our practice by improving
operational efficiency."
Last year, the Mayo Clinic Division of Anatomic Pathology
performed nearly 200,000 pathology consultations in support of the
Mayo Clinic practice and more than 1,100 health care organizations
around the world. Specializing in rare and complex pathology cases
across all medical subspecialties, the new solution will enable the
pathology practice to enact additional operational efficiencies,
leverage image sharing and collaboration features, and build a
digital pathology image archive to advance educational, research,
and artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives.
"We look forward to working with Mayo Clinic as we understand
the critical need of delivering a solution that will allow
pathologists to easily review cases, collaborate, and make primary
diagnoses, regardless of their geographic location, all in the best
interests of patient care," says Mikael
Anden, president of Sectra, Inc.
Media contacts:
Suzanne Ferguson, Mayo Clinic,
507-284-5005, newsbureau@mayo.edu
Andrea Sowitch, Sectra, 203-925-0899
ext. 268, andrea.sowitch@sectra.com
About the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and
Mayo Clinic Laboratories
The Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
and its reference laboratory, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, provide
advanced testing and pathology services to support 4,000 health
care organizations around the world. Revenue from this testing
supports medical education and research at Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit
worldwide leader in medical care, research, and education.
Complemented by collaborations with diagnostic and biotechnology
companies, the department maintains a robust diagnostic test
development program, launching more than 150 new tests each
year.
About Sectra
With more than 30 years of innovation and approaching 2,000
installations worldwide, Sectra is a leading global provider of
imaging IT solutions that support health care in achieving
patient-centric care. Sectra offers an enterprise imaging solution
comprising PACS for imaging-intense departments (radiology,
pathology, cardiology, orthopedics), VNA, and share and collaborate
solutions. Sectra received FDA approval for its digital pathology
module in March 2020 and is leading
the way in digital pathology with multiple fully digital
installations throughout the world. Read more about Sectra and why
Sectra PACS is "Best in KLAS" at https://medical.sectra.com/.
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