In today's digital world, telemedicine is an advancing science. Connecting healthcare givers across distances, telepathology is one of the significant applications of telemedicine. The telepathology services by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in the US is one of the best models of telepathology that many pathologists rely on. In the Indian economy, with the great urban and rural divide in healthcare, telepathology can be a great asset to diagnostic healthcare. In rural India that lack good pathology set-ups and in urban India where pathology group practice is yet to catch up, telepathology can be a well applied technological tool.
Telepathology is the electronic transmission of pathological images usually derived from microscopes, from one place to another for interpretation and diagnosis. Essentially, it involves a slide scanner, a large computer server and large bandwidth network links. The images transmitted can be still images or a video clip which again can be live or stored and forwarded transmissions. The images transmitted could be selected by the person sending them or with the advanced software, the recipient can have remote control of the microscopic stage, focusing and objectives. In fact, it is possible to digitally scan the whole slide and produce a virtual slide for actual viewing by a virtual microscope.
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