Why Go Digital?
Modern research organizations face many and varied challenges. Demand for complex assay development, particularly multiplex, is increasing1. The cost of research is rising, with an average R&D cost of $2.6B for each new drug successfully brought to market2, while return on investment decreases3. There is an increasing trend towards outsourcing of research activities, and a growing number of industrial-academic partnerships working across borders. Digital pathology can help to address these challenges, through automation, quantitation, and remote networking.
Here are our top five reasons that you should consider adopting digital pathology for your organization:
1. Quality Digital pathology can enable faster access to remote specialists for discussion of novel or challenging samples, reducing turnaround time for studies and enhancing collaboration with live slide discussion. Quantitative image analysis tools provide standardized, reproducible data to give researchers greater insight into novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Digital pathology also offers powerful image and data management platforms, allowing current and historical study data to be easily retrieved, sorted, and shared. 2. Productivity Central storage of data and images via digital pathology solutions enables easy access and improved management of study data. LIMS integration provides all data in a single, streamlined workflow with easy retrieval, reducing time spent waiting for slide delivery, data matching, and organization. Digital pathology tools such as automated image analysis can save significant time over manual review, as in the example of a large research lab that reduced time spent on slide review from on average 30 mins to seconds per slide4.
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