Digitalisation is on the rise and is also changing working methods in the healthcare sector in the long term. As a result, digital technologies are increasingly being used in pathology instead of microscopes - such as at the Institute of Clinical Pathology at St. Pölten University Hospital. The smallest tissue samples are comprehensively analysed for the early detection of possible cancers.
Faster diagnosis and treatment
"Digital pathology helps us to diagnose urgent specimens more quickly and also gives us more staff to provide medical care," explains Melitta Kitzwögerer, Head of the Institute of Pathology at St. Pölten University Hospital. Digitalisation therefore enables faster diagnosis and treatment and would also simplify the work of doctors. It would also make the profession more attractive, as young doctors in particular are used to working digitally.
EU project "DIGI-PAT"
As part of the EU digitisation project "DIGI-PAT", Lower Austria is working closely with the Institute of Pathology at Maastricht University Hospital, as the Netherlands is considered a pioneer in the field of digital pathology. Thanks to the digitalisation of sectional specimens, these can now also be received digitally from other institutes and second opinions can be obtained.
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Source: red, noe.ORF.at