About the Session
The convergence of radiology and pathology through enterprise PACS represents a critical next step in modern, integrated diagnostics. While radiology has benefited from enterprise imaging systems for decades, pathology’s slower digitization has resulted in fragmented workflows, duplicate effort, and limited collaboration across diagnostic teams. As digital pathology adoption accelerates, there is a clear need to apply hard-earned lessons from radiology PACS to avoid repeating costly mistakes and to accelerate meaningful integration.
In this session, attendees will explore how enterprise PACS can serve as a shared, patient-centered platform that unites radiology and pathology. Participants will learn how technical decisions, interoperability standards, governance models, and change management strategies shaped radiology’s PACS journey—and how those insights can be applied proactively in pathology today. The session emphasizes practical approaches to aligning workflows, adopting standards such as DICOM for whole slide imaging, and reducing fragmentation across diagnostic specialties.
Participants will also take away a clear understanding of the clinical, operational, and strategic impact of integration. Attendees will examine how unified access to radiology images and pathology slides improves multidisciplinary collaboration, supports more effective tumor boards, and strengthens diagnostic confidence. The session highlights how enterprise PACS accelerates deployment timelines, reduces duplication, and creates a scalable foundation for advanced technologies such as AI, multimodal analytics, and precision medicine—equipping participants with actionable insights they can apply within their own institutions.
Objectives
- Describe how enterprise PACS can accelerate deployment of digital pathology by applying lessons learned from radiology’s earlier adoption.
- Identify strategies to avoid common pitfalls from radiology PACS implementation when designing integrated pathology-radiology workflows.
- Explain how a unified enterprise PACS improves collaboration, efficiency, and readiness for future innovations such as AI and precision medicine.
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