Fujifilm, PRECIDX Team Up to Make Digital Pathology More Accessible

Fujifilm Healthcare Americas and PRECIDX, a healthcare data optimization company, partnered to integrate Fujifilm’s Synapse Pathology solution with the PRECIDX Optimization Platform (POP) to reduce digital pathology file storage by 85%.

Whole-slide images are enormous, with a single high-resolution image often ranging from 2 to 4 gigabytes—the size of a high-definition movie. With large laboratories producing thousands of these images daily, the accumulated data volume quickly reaches petabytes, creating challenges.

Integrating Fujifilm’s Synapse Pathology with POP aims to combat this challenge—Synapse Pathology is a comprehensive pathology PACS tool that streamlines case management through advances in digitization to speed case turnaround time. Synapse Pathology delivers digital images for diagnosis 1.99 hours faster than glass slides, Fujifilm said.

POP is a software solution designed to make healthcare data ecosystems more manageable, scalable, and affordable. It can reduce the file size of large digital pathology images by up to 85% without sacrificing diagnostic quality. It can also transfer files up to ten times faster and standardize data for interoperability.

Together, the combined technologies are engineered to optimize unstructured data, allowing better interoperability, faster performance, and reduced storage costs for enterprise imaging in healthcare and research.

“The benefits of digital pathology are numerous—including increased efficiency, speedier diagnoses and enhanced remote access. However, the high storage costs of digital slides remain one of the major challenges for providers who have transitioned to digital as well as a barrier to adoption for others,” said Dr. Mark Lloyd, VP of digital pathology at Fujifilm Healthcare Americas. “We’re elated to partner with PRECIDX, an innovator in the data optimization space, to address this concern with a robust technological advancement. Our joint technology solution offers a major opportunity to make digital pathology far more feasible for health systems that need to be conscious of the total cost of ownership of a digital pathology system.”

“Digital pathology holds immense promise for transforming healthcare by enhancing diagnostic accuracy, driving precision medicine, and improving patient outcomes,” added Kenneth Tang, co-founder and CEO and of PRECIDX. “Our partnership with Fujifilm, a recognized leader in the space, enables us to enhance their best-in-KLAS Synapse Pathology system with our proprietary data optimization solutions. Together, we’re tackling the storage cost challenge head-on and poised to be a true gamechanger for the digital pathology industry.”

In July, Fujifilm launched FDR Go iQ, a portable digital radiography solution for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).