Digital pathology creates a vibrant, image-driven ecosystem where pathologists can acquire, manage, and interpret information from Whole Slide Images (WSI), using the information to understand medical events, train students, and contribute to research.
There's a clear benefit here to working with digital slides and having immediate access to archived slides without having to wait.1
Iron Mountain crafted a holistic, end-to-end platform of capabilities, complete with partner plugins, to fully enable digital pathology for research and educational settings.
We archive physical pathology assets, including blocks and glass slides, digitise them in our IRM facilities, manage and retrieve Whole Slide Images (WSIs) using IRM-built software, enable the interpretation of WSIs with an integrated viewer within the IRM infrastructure, and store WSIs in Iron Mountain’s digital pathology storage solution, all while maintaining a robust chain of custody.
Iron Mountain Digital Pathology solution is built on Iron Mountain InSight® Digital Experience Platform (DXP), a scalable software as a service solution that strengthens the data and information management capabilities lacking or missing in your existing pathology ecosystem via pre-built connectors, workflows, metadata, storage management, and future AI integrations.
*Storage availability and requirements vary by country. Contact your local Iron Mountain representative for more information.
Iron Mountain delivers a holistic secure service that spans the entire physical-to-digital pathology lifecycle.
Leverage extensive in-facility digitisation capabilities along with traditional pathology slide‐storage - we manage more than one billion slides and blocks in over 150 temperature‐monitored facilities meeting the 2021 US CAP requirements.
Iron Mountain is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 240,000 organisations—including almost all of the Fortune 1000—we store and protect billions of valued assets.
Many organisations attempting to digitise their pathology slides in-house find that their efforts fall short—digitisation is not a core competency; it generally takes longer, costs more, and lowers overall efficiency.
We deliver a holistic service that spans the entire physical-to-digital pathology slide lifecycle. We digitise your physical glass slides within our more than 150 temperature-monitored pathology storage facilities that meet the 2021 US College of American Pathology (CAP) requirements. By creating Whole Slide Images (WSIs), we unlock the information on the slides, empowering your organisations with ready access to data.
You are challenged to manage an ever‐growing volume of slides and blocks while maintaining inventory integrity and timely access to physical slides and Whole Slide Images (WSIs).
As organisations are asked to do more with less and the volume of specimens continues to grow, getting quick access to the slides and WSIs for review and research, facilitating efficient collaboration, and managing the proper storage and movement of these assets becomes an ever-increasing burden.
*Storage availability and requirements vary by country
Pathology labs must maintain security to guard protected health information (PHI) to comply with regulations. Digital pathology professionals experienced in asset preservation and compliance handle cost-effective image storage and management across scalable cloud storage.
Digitised images also enable organisations to participate in asset marketplaces, where images are collected, anonymised, and marketed for sale to enable and support in-house research.
* Storage availability and requirements vary by country.
The need for physical storage space is growing, but storage space is at a premium, particularly in the facility itself or in high-value real estate areas where many facilities are located. In addition, temperature-monitored storage is needed for slides and blocks (tissue samples), which are the core elements of pathology.
Managing large whole slide image (WSI) datasets and maintaining the metadata that describes them is challenging, requiring a knowledgeable and experienced provider.
We store and manage your large Whole Slide Images (WSIs) efficiently and securely while leveraging metadata to make finding and retrieving them easy. The WSI's data enrichment helps pathologists quickly find, view, group, share, and analyse the images for research or education purposes.
Our capabilities include:
Our Digital Pathology solution has many capabilities, allowing you to personalise it to your needs. Components include a secure web portal, slide digitisation, digital viewing, whole slide image (WSI) management, and physical and digital storage.
We’ll position you for the future as Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) metadata extraction and knowledge graphs are available. Using the WSI metadata, the information can provide new insights supporting better decision-making. The WSIs can be viewed by humans, analysed digitally, or used to train machine learning algorithms bolstering research or monetisation via marketplaces.
Reap the advantages of a digital solution that increases your efficiency and effectiveness by partnering with us. As a capable and reputable service provider, we empower you with our Digital Pathology solution capabilities. Utilise our services rather than attempting to handle everything in-house and on-premises.
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Iron Mountain Digital Pathology solutions have many research use case applications, such as:
A profit-driven technology startup needed help building cohorts of de-identified patient data to sell to biotech firms for AI model training. The startup required retrospective cohort digitisation of thousands of slides, with plans to expand to 1.5 million slides. This volume was needed to deliver robust data sets for AI diagnostics and research.
Iron Mountain Digital Pathology solution provided large-scale retrospective/archival scanning services. Physical slides were converted into digital images suitable for aggregation and analysis.
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Utilise Iron Mountain Digital Pathology solutions in your educational settings, such as the following use cases:
A cancer centre was at risk of losing NIH funding due to falling behind on its in-house scanning project. The inability to keep up with the volume of slides needing scanning threatened research, training, and funding.
Iron Mountain took on the overflow slide scanning responsibilities, ensuring that all necessary slides were quickly digitised, promoting ease of access and use.
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