UPMC Pathology Networked Imaging System

Beta in 3rd qtr 97, our second generation

Client/Server, WinNT, Networked

Automatic Caching, Central Archive

Built around pathology workflow

Department wide scope

Capture

Display

Archive

Image Archive

Convert

Indexing

Import/export

All Pathologists

All cutting/signout areas

AP/CP

4 hospitals

60,000+ images archived

Conferences

Documentation

Clinical Signout

Education

Security

Annotation

Communicate

Auto Labeling

Clinically useful for consultation, gross/microscopic

correlation, pathology/radiology correlation… but it

is not ideal - images need text (and vis versa).

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