First large-scale multicenter digital pathology implementation in Finland
- Featuring Philips
- March 03 2025
- Duration 46:13
In this webinar, Dr. Teemu Tolonen discusses the experience of going fully digital in a multicenter pathology environment, including workflow changes, College of American Pathologists (CAP) validation and considerations around the quality of highly compressed images.
At-a-glance:
- In 2020, Fimlab was part of the largest digital pathology tender in Finland, with the goal of accessing a ready-to-use pathology solution to accommodate 700,000 slides each year.
- Fimlab sought a solution that was already in use at several large pathology laboratories that perform close to 100% digital diagnostics, and chose the Philips Digital Pathology Solution.
- Digitization by Philips was the essential step needed for computational pathology, which helped improve pathology quality and compensated for the shortage of pathologists.
Finland has pioneered digital pathology for over 15 years, and it overcame many barriers, they reveal in this article their initial experiences of going ~ 100% digital in a multicenter environment.
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Teemu Tolonen graduated from the University of Tampere with a Doctorate of Medicine and Doctorate of Philosophy with a focus in cancer genetics. He became an adjunct professor of pathology in 2019. In 2010 he began his residency at Fimlab Laboratories, one of the leading laboratory companies in Finland, providing laboratory services, education, and research in Pirkanmaa, Central Finland, Kanta-Häme, Ostrobothnia and Paijät-Hame regions. In 2017 Dr. Tolonen became the Head of the department of pathology at Fimlab Laboratories. Over the course of his career, Dr. Tolonen has served key roles for the Finnish Division of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP), as a board member (2014-2015) and President (2016-2017/2018-2019). Dr. Tolonen has 62 publications that include scientific publications on genitourinary lab cancers and digital image analysis.
