On Jun. 25, 2020, in support of Mayo Clinic’s digital health and practice transformation initiatives, the Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology announced it had initiated an enterprise-wide digital pathology implementation of the Sectra digital slide review and image storage and management system to enable digital pathology.

In 2019, the Mayo Clinic Division of Anatomic Pathology performed nearly 200,000 pathology consultations in support of the Mayo Clinic practice and more than 1,100 health care organizations around the world.

Specializing in rare and complex pathology cases across all medical subspecialties, the new solution enabled the pathology practice to enact additional operational efficiencies, leverage image sharing and collaboration features, and build a digital pathology image archive to advance educational, research, and artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives.