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My goal was to completely replace light microscopy and become fully digitized so we could make a full diagnosis on the screen. We wanted to be able to bring morphology in every lab in our system to the same level. Scopio enables us to standardize morphology results, and the image is as good as looking through a microscope.

Hematopathology is the last frontier for digitization because of the difficulties of getting a good 100x scan of our smears so we were really excited to implement Scopio. Our big focus with digital pathology is improving quality. With Scopio, when we have the AI decision support doing the differential for us, we can focus on what really matters. We are looking at more cells than when we were doing manual diffs which were only 100 cells. We have improved statistical significance and improved confidence that we have not missed a rare cell type.

The reason Scopio was our platform of choice was the quality of the slide imaging; we need images of excellent quality for diagnostics. But also important is the ability to move freely around the slide, see the full field view, and look at different regions. You need to do that to see an area of dysplastic cells or increased blasts, for example, that were not in your differential subcounts. Especially with blasts, multiple myeloma, and other plasma cell dysplasias, you need to be able to move freely around the slide to identify areas of abnormal cells. Scopio’s Full-Field imaging capabilities at 100x made this possible.

With Scopio, we saw advantages in standardization, remote viewing of slides, and the potential for nine hospitals to share expertise and access information seamlessly. Our aha moment came when we had a 13-year-old in our emergency department. There was a CBC slide being reviewed and the tech saw malaria. Malaria hadn't even been ordered by the emergency doc as there was no indication to order it. And there it was. We discovered with the Scopio platform the opportunity for the experts at another hospital to pull that slide up, take a look and speciate that at five miles away,but it could have been a hundred miles away. 

Scopio was very straightforward to introduce. At first, we kept the microscope in the lab and encouraged staff to use it while they became comfortable with the new system. Very quickly, no one was using the microscope anymore. It's very easy for me to share the images across sites, across different teams, 24 hours a day, including with the medical staff, the consultant, and the haematologists. Then, we can get the right outcomes for those patients, not only in terms of more accurate and quality results but also quicker diagnosis.