PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stathonikos, Nikolaos
AU  - Nguyen, Tri Q
AU  - van Diest, Paul J
TI  - Rocky road to digital diagnostics: implementation issues and exhilarating experiences
AID  - 10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206715
DP  - 2021 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 415--420
VI  - 74
IP  - 7
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/74/7/415.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/74/7/415.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol2021 Jul 01; 74
AB  - Since 2007, we have gradually been building up infrastructure for digital pathology, starting with a whole slide scanner park to build up a digital archive to streamline doing multidisciplinary meetings, student teaching and research, culminating in a full digital diagnostic workflow where we are currently integrating artificial intelligence algorithms. In this paper, we highlight the different steps in this process towards digital diagnostics, which was at times a rocky road with definitely issues in implementation, but eventually an exciting new way to practice pathology in a more modern and efficient way where patient safety has clearly gone up.