Philips Digital Pathology

At Philips Healthcare we combine our unique clinical expertise with human insights to develop meaningful innovations that help to improve the quality of people’s lives. We develop solutions that deliver value throughout the care cycle: from disease prevention to screening, treatment, monitoring and health management. In Healthcare Informatics, we offer radiology information systems (RIS) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for medical images that are generated in cardiology and radiology departments, advanced clinical imaging applications and departmental clinical management systems. Philips Digital Pathology is using this expertise to develop integrated digital solutions for the acquisition, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data in the pathology domain. One way that pathologists diagnose and characterize disease is by examining tissue samples removed from patients. The vast majority of cancer diagnoses are made or confirmed by a pathologist. By digitizing the images that pathologists normally view through a microscope, Philips’ goal is to bring the digital switchover benefits currently enjoyed by radiology departments to this very important area of disease diagnosis.