HCG becomes first hospital in India to digitise histopathology diagnosis

Digital diagnosis is now the default diagnosis of the lab for surgical pathology and 100% of FFPE slides are digitally scanned into high-resolution digital images

Health Care Global Enterprise Ltd. (HCG), the cancer care specialist, said it has become the first hospital in the country to completely digitise histopathology workflow for primary diagnosis at the HCG-Strand Laboratory in Bengaluru. The hospital had introduced a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  approved digital pathology solution from Philips Intellisite Pathology Solutions. Now the laboratory at HCG has successfully transformed to a 100 per cent digital lab for histopathology — the diagnosis and study of diseases of the tissues and computational pathology — an approach to diagnosis that incorporates multiple sources of data.

Digital diagnosis is now the