Iron Mountain Digital Pathology solutions

Transforming physical to digital

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.

Experienced Whole Slide Image digitisation provider

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.

Free up staff time and storage space, and position yourself for an AI future

• Leverage our extensive in-facility digitisation services where your slides stay within the Iron Mountain storage facilities, protecting fragile slides from transportation and handling damage.
• Improve the efficiency of your overburdened staff and refocus their time on higher-value tasks.
• Digitise your pathology slides, turning them into digitally indexed and easy-to-find WSIs that support collaboration and feed your next-generation AI business initiatives.

Moving and controlling data

Managing large whole slide image (WSI) datasets and maintaining the metadata that describes them is challenging, requiring a knowledgeable and experienced provider.

Managing Whole Slide Image data

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:

An end-to-end digital pathology services provider

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.

Be ready for the future

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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Unlock faster pathology research

Iron Mountain Digital Pathology solutions have many research use case applications, such as:

• Cohort creation
• AI model training and validation
• Asset monetisation

Lead your research organisation toward achieving the following benefits:

Case Study: Technology startup uses artificial intelligence (AI) model training

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.

Outcomes included:

• Handled massive data volumes by scanning thousands of slides and preparing for the expansion to 1.5 million slides
• Enabled AI training by supplying biotech firms with high-quality, de-identified data sets
• Facilitated innovation through the development and training of advanced AI models for research

Innovate in education

Utilise Iron Mountain Digital Pathology solutions in your educational settings, such as the following use cases:

• Student projects
• Webinars
• Grand rounds

Our Digital Pathology solution offers:

Case Study: Cancer Centre with National Institute of Health (NIH) funding

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.

Outcomes include:

• NIH funding was secured by helping the centre meet its project deadlines
• Provided critical operational support during a period of high demand
• Enabled the centre to continue its important cancer research and education without interruption