Zakopane hospital installs Aperio’s scanner

I have a Google Alert set for news of Aperio, and every once in a while it drags in something pretty cool, check this out: Zakopane hospital installs Aperio’s scanner.

2008-09-24
Zakopane hospital installs Aperio’s scanner  

The Sokolowski Lung Disease Provincial Hospital in Zakopane (Malopolskie voivodship) has become the first medical institution in Poland to have at its disposal Aperio’s ScanScope, a state-of-the-art scanner system for delivering digital slide images from microscopic slides.

The system, bought for about €100,000, will greatly improve and accelerate pathological diagnosis in patients awaiting surgery as well as intraoperative diagnosis in patients undergoing surgery. It is also a way to deal with a shortage of pathologists. According to Julian Pankowski MD, a pathologist who works part-time for the hospital, it will lift the unit's services to world-class level.

Similar devices are used by institutions in Krakow and Szczecin but only for academic purposes.

I love it!  Digital pathology is truly taking off - globally!