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Philips introduces new digital solutions and services to advance pathology

Royal Philips recently announced upcoming additions to its portfolio of pathology solutions as part of its presence
at the 2017 United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting.

Pathology plays a critical role in the detection and diagnosis of a wide variety of diseases, including cancer. Increasing cancer incidence, an aging population and efforts to improve patient outcomes have put cancer diagnostics and pathology services under considerable pressure. Digitization of the tissue slide that the pathologist normally views using a microscope could help increase operational efficiencies. As part of this year’s USCAP, Philips unveiled these new technologies that showcased expansion plans for open pathology solutions.

Philips IntelliSite Collaboration Suite is a new software as a service being developed on Philips HealthSuite digital
platform that will connect pathologists worldwide. This case sharing platform aims to allow pathologists to have
easy access to expertise and consultation services to speed turnaround times and enable cost savings for consultation.
Philips Digital Pathology Solutions portfolio is being expanded to support computational pathology offerings from Philips as well as partners. First, clinically validated image analysis applications that aim to assist the pathologist in routine case review, which could help to standardize and facilitate first time right decisions. In partnership with Visiopharm, the company will offer applications for semi-quantification of breast IHC markers.
Second, Philips’ research application TissueMark that helps in automatic identification of tumor region and subsequent quantification for macro dissection. Third, Philips’ research application Xplore2 that enables image
and study data management, and biomarker discovery with additional tools that help streamline research and
biomarker discovery.
Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution will add new capabilities in its open research platform allowing support of additional image file formats to its imagemanagement system, including DICOM.