Clinical labs

We help hospital laboratories create confidence with high-quality image review, automated quality assurance, and consistent display performance.

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Digital pathology for clinical labs

Clinical laboratories face growing pressure to deliver accurate diagnoses while managing increasing case complexity, staffing challenges, and rising expectations for turnaround times. Digital pathology is helping labs modernize their workflows by enabling remote case review, improving access to expertise, and creating a foundation for collaboration and future AI applications. As laboratories transition from microscopes to digital workflows, maintaining diagnostic confidence and workflow efficiency becomes essential.

The challenges clinical labs face

Managing workloads
Diagnostic quality
Remote work
Maintaining QA
AI readiness

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Managing workloads

Many pathology departments are handling growing caseloads while facing workforce shortages and increasing case complexity. Pathologists must review more cases in less time without compromising diagnostic quality or patient care.

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Diagnostic quality

Digital pathology introduces new technologies into the diagnostic workflow, including scanners, image management systems, and diagnostic displays. Hospital laboratories need confidence that images are presented consistently so pathologists can make reliable diagnostic decisions.

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Remote work

Consultations, second opinions, and subspecialty reviews often involve experts who are not physically present in the laboratory. Digital workflows enable collaboration across locations, but laboratories need solutions that ensure the same high-quality viewing experience wherever cases are reviewed.

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Maintaining QA

Quality assurance no longer ends with slide preparation. In digital pathology, image acquisition, image management, and display performance all become critical checkpoints that can influence diagnostic confidence and consistency.

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AI readiness

As clinical laboratories explore AI-assisted diagnostics and image analysis, they need a digital pathology environment that supports standardized image quality and dependable workflow foundations. Successful AI adoption begins with confidence in the underlying digital workflow.

How Barco can support your clinical lab

Barco helps clinical laboratories create confidence throughout the digital pathology workflow. Our solutions support high-quality image review, automated quality assurance, and consistent display performance, enabling hospital labs to prepare for the future of pathology while continuing to deliver high-quality patient care.

Our products for clinical labs

Digital pathology displays

Discover a pioneering ultra-high definition medical-grade display, designed exclusively for digital pathology.

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SlideRightQA

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QAWeb Enterprise

Our medical displays are FDA cleared and CE marked, QAWeb Enterprise is FDA listed and CE marked.

Trends in digital pathology

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