The practice of pathology is entering a period of broad adoption of digital workflows, as near real-time access to “digital slides” offers opportunities to greatly improve clinical outcomes and accelerate research.

However, digital workflows must be executed properly, and this starts with the successful digitization of glass slides by means of whole slide scanning. Get this part right, and it will positively benefit the rest of the pathology workflow.

Let’s look at the seven most prominent pitfalls encountered in whole slide scanning and the potential solutions for overcoming them – click to download the Seven Pitfalls of Whole Slide Scanning.