From Specialist Direct: Specialist Direct (SDI), a leader in delivering telepathology solutions for the organ transplant industry, is pleased to collaborate with Piedmont Healthcare and the Piedmont Transplant Institute to provide the most accurate and timely kidney and liver biopsy interpretations. By utilizing Specialist Direct, Piedmont is able to receive round-the-clock biopsy study interpretations to optimize the number of lifesaving organs that are available for transplant.
Specialist Direct is unique that it has one of the nation’s largest pathologist subspecialist teams whose members have advanced transplant case experience. With over 100,000 people in the U.S. on the waitlist for lifesaving organs, the accuracy of kidney, liver, and other advanced biopsy interpretations by SDI is critical in ensuring that organs that are suitable for transplant can be placed.
“The exceptional team of pathologists at Specialist Direct, with their expertise in donor organ biopsy evaluation, has empowered us to expand our acceptance criteria for more complex kidneys and livers—providing critical insights that enhance decision-making, improve patient safety, and ultimately save more lives,” said Clark Kensinger, M.D., multiorgan transplant surgeon and Surgical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Piedmont Transplant Institute.
“We are proud and humbled to collaborate with Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, known as one of the premier transplant hospitals in the U.S. from both an excellence and reputation perspective,” said Scott Rombach, Founder and CEO of Specialist Direct. “Piedmont has had great success in leveraging our Transplant Telepathology solution to optimize donor biopsy evaluations and save lives.”
Specialist Direct’s SDI Cloud platform is specifically designed to enable transplant hospitals in conjunction with organ procurement organizations to rapidly share secure digital pathology images, facilitating efficient collaboration between pathologists, surgeons and other clinicians. SDI Cloud in conjunction with Specialist Direct’s network of transplant experienced pathologists leads to faster decision-making, improved operational efficiencies, and a greater number of organs available for transplant recipients.
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