Philips and Saint-Joseph Hospital & Marie-Lannelongue Hospital, one of France’s leading centres of excellence in cancer care, have announced the first steps in a partnership to fully integrate digital pathology into the Saint-Joseph and Marie Lannelongue hospitals’ enterprise imaging solutions.
Care teams will have access to comprehensive diagnostic information at the anatomical, cellular, and molecular level available to the hospitals’ multidisciplinary tumour boards to guide personalised care pathway selection for cancer patients, and improve the diagnostic confidence needed to drive better patient outcomes through integration across digital pathology and radiology workflows.
“Digital transformation has proven successful for pathologists, allowing easier organisation and more efficient workflows, with new functionalities like measurements and multiple-slide alignment providing better collaboration across the care team and helping improve the path to diagnosis,” said Dr Julien Adam, Head of the Pathology Department at Saint-Joseph Hospital. "Through this partnership with Philips, we aim to integrate all our imaging data into an integrated diagnosis to enhance clinical decision making and improve patient care. From a clinical standpoint, the availability of virtual slides during multidisciplinary meetings increases the involvement of pathologists to help us organise and optimise the analysis from sample to patient care, and ultimately build a gold standard for integrated diagnostics in oncology.”
The Philips digital pathology solution (IntelliSite Pathology) installed at Saint-Joseph Hospital comprises two Philips Pathology Second Generation Scanner – SG300 – slide scanners to digitise more than 150,000 histology slides the hospital produces each year, paired with the Philips Image Management System.
The agreement includes Philips Image Management solution – Vue PACS – a scalable, modular architecture that integrates with existing AI-based tools to deliver data and tools across the enterprise; from radiology data reporting to enterprise-wide processing and archiving, to full patient and clinical data management. Diagnosis and pathway selection will be assisted by Philips Oncology Pathways powered by Dana-Farber and Philips Multidisciplinary Team Orchestrator, to bring actionable clinical patient information together from disparate data sources, including electronic medical records, lab systems, pathology, radiology, and genomics.