Digital Pathology Display Standards: Why Medical Monitors Change Diagnostic Accuracy | Tom Kimpe

If your digital pathology deployment has a brand-new whole-slide scanner, a solid IMS, and petabytes of storage — but your pathologists are reading on consumer monitors — you may have a serious problem you haven't budgeted for yet.In this episode of Imaging Informatics Unplugged, Jason sits down with Tom Kimpe, VP of Technology & Innovation for Healthcare at Barco, for a deep-dive webinar from Canada Health Infoway on the critical role the display plays in the digital pathology imaging chain. Tom unpacks why color gamut matters more in pathology than almost any other imaging domain, how color variability sneaks in at every step of the workflow — from tissue staining through scanner to viewer to display — and what the peer-reviewed science actually says about diagnostic accuracy and reading efficiency when pathologists use medical-grade versus consumer monitors.Spoiler: a 6–8% reduction in reading time. 100% diagnostic concordance on medical displays versus measurable drop-off on consumer hardware. Missed concurrent diseases. These aren't marketing claims — they're published, peer-reviewed findings.Whether you're a PACS admin, imaging informatics specialist, or radiology IT leader expanding into enterprise imaging and digital pathology, this is the kind of workflow and display standardization knowledge that will save your organization from an expensive mid-project scramble. If you're working toward your CIIP credential, the CIIP Foundations Program at nagelsconsulting.com is exactly where this conversation fits into the bigger picture — and keep an eye out for the upcoming DICOM training program with hands-on live imaging learning labs that will make concepts like ICC profiles and DICOM WG-26 click in a whole new way.Learn more at nagelsconsulting.comKey Topics CoveredWhy pathology tissue has a broader colour gamut than sRGB displays can reproduce — and what that means clinicallyHow colour variability is introduced at every link in the digital pathology chain: lab prep, scanner, viewer, and displayThe difference between consumer, professional, and medical-grade displays — and why it matters for pathology specificallyICC colour profiles: what they are, how they work, and why adoption is accelerating toward an industry standardPeer-reviewed evidence showing measurable impact of display quality on diagnostic accuracy, concordance, and reading efficiencyThe DICOM WG-26 ecosystem: how file format standardization is finally catching up to scanner adoptionWhere display procurement falls through the cracks in digital pathology deployments — and how to fix it