This is your source for insights on digital pathology with its challenges and what to do to overcome them. Here you will also find newsworthy events of Grundium.
- blogFebruary 10th, 2021
MAGNIFICATION: DOES IT MATTER WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN?
Viewed through a 40x lens, objects seem twice as big as with a 20x lens. It seems logical to think a higher magnification objective is “better”. But does it matter what it says on the tin?
Full story - blogDecember 3rd, 2020
HOW TO MAKE INTRA-OPERATIVE FROZEN SECTION PATHOLOGY MORE PRACTICAL
When there’s a patient on the table in cancer surgery, the options used to be either to have a pathologist ready at the microscope to diagnose the frozen tissue specimen, or close the section and send the patient home to wait for the histopathological diagnosis by way of regular pathology laboratory workflow. Apart from being costly, the long wait is arduous for both the patient, the hospital and the whole health care system.
Full story - blogNovember 26th, 2020
REMOTE IMAGING AT SATELLITE CLINICS & CENTRALIZED DIAGNOSIS
The small footprint but high resolution Grundium Ocus®40 is the chosen imaging component in Zoetis’ distributed digital pathology service. The system reduces the time of cats’ and dogs’ diagnosis from weeks to only minutes. This is tomorrow’s distributed digital pathology service today.
Full story - blogOctober 22nd, 2020
CANCER EXPERTISE IN FINLAND
In this brochure Business Finland has collected the most important cancer research innovators from Finland.
Full story - blogAugust 17th, 2020
API INTEGRATION TOOLS
The Grundium Ocus series slide scanners make digital pathology very easy. An Ocus scanner is fully remote usable and cloud connected to make the best professional diagnosis available for all life, anywhere in the world.
Full story - blogJuly 20th, 2020
TELEPATHOLOGY WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Moving from conventional light microscopes into digital pathology can seem daunting. Many digital systems are cumbersome and come with proprietary software, which require changing the hospital workflow. Big change is usually unwelcome, especially when resources and people are already scarce. The Grundium Ocus® makes the best professional diagnosis available for all life. Here’s why it is so easy to use.
Full story - blogJuly 13th, 2020
(ECO-)SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS IN DIGITAL PATHOLOGY WORKFLOWS
The digital transformation of pathology is necessary, but even if the core technologies are already available, applying them in practice in hospital workflows takes time and effort. To speed things up, the benefits of novel methods over the existing must be clearly demonstrated (read this and this for more information).
Full story - blogJune 16th, 2020
THE GRUNDIUM IMAGING SYSTEM IS NOW PATENTED
Grundium has been issued a US patent of the title “Microscope comprising a movable objective-camera system with rolling shutter camera sensor and a multi-color strobe flash and method for scanning microscope slides with proper focus”.
Full story - blogJune 2nd, 2020
PERSONAL SLIDE SCANNER VS. CONVENTIONAL MULTI-SLIDE SCANNER
In digital pathology, a small portable scanner can handle some workflows better than conventional big scanners. As the awareness of an alternative to multi-slide scanners grows, comparing similarities and differences is a convenient way of wrapping one’s head around a new idea. Scanning speed often comes up as a metric to contest the platforms. But does it really matter?
Full story - blogMay 15th, 2020
THE GRUNDIUM OCUS® VS. THE OCUS®40
Two practical scanners making the best professional diagnosis available for all life. What’s the difference? Here is how the Grundium Ocus® series offer a choice in telepathology and digital microscopy.
Full story - newsMay 10th, 2020
GRUNDIUM LAUNCHES A SECOND MICROSCOPE SCANNER
On June 12th 2020 Grundium launches the Ocus®40 scanner, a sister model to the Ocus®, which has been on the market since 2018. The new scanner comes with a near-identical form factor and weight, but it does a few things differently from the previous model.
Full story - blogMay 4th, 2020
THE GRUNDIUM IMAGE STITCHING METHOD IS PATENTED
Composing a single accurate image of a number of microscopic scanning points (i.e. stitching) becomes especially demanding when parts of the specimen are empty or have repetitive patterns in them. Grundium knows how to mitigate this problem and it has been granted a patent.
Full story - blogApril 15th, 2020
TELEPATHOLOGY MADE SIMPLE
When you just can’t be in more locations at once and you can’t increase the hours in a day, what do you do?
Full story - blogMarch 9th, 2020
WHAT IS DRIVING DIGITAL PATHOLOGY?
Pathology is in transition. There simply aren’t enough pathologists to go around. With an aging population the number of pathology cases and the number of samples to process keeps growing. Since new graduate pathologists can’t be trained and educated fast enough to satisfy demand, the only option* is to make the existing and incoming pathologists process more samples. Since just working more hours is not feasible for medical professionals in charge of diagnosing to save lives, we must find a way to make the pathologists work more efficiently.
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