Table 3 Reasons for increased efficiency when using digital pathology systems

Images are remotely shared with multiple pathologists and viewed simultaneously

Review cases anytime, anywhere

Don't waste time preparing for shipping or fighting with courier services

Not having to move boxes with slides to home or to other hospitals, which is cleaner and safer

Reduce shipping times

Greatly improve teaching activity

Decrease interobserver variability with certain markers

Offer multi-magnification assessment, diagnosis, archiving, easy access, special studies with defined algorithms

Pathologists may subspecialize since they can concentrate cases from different institutions

Standardize quantitative techniques and lesion detection

Improve productivity of pathologists

Improve workflow in the laboratory and therefore decrease response times

Increase in number of samples (biopsy type)

Pathologists may focus initially on simple, easy-to-train algorithms and subsequently dedicate time to cases of greater complexity