The iPath telemedicine platform.

An early, point-to-point telepathology system at the University of Basel developed into an open-source, Internet-based platform for telemedicine in 2001. The Internet Pathology Suite (iPath) is a Web-based telepathology platform that permits the online presentation and discussion of cases within user groups. It also allows realtime telemicroscopy across firewalls.

Diagnostic telepathology: long-term experience of a single institution.

Objectives: The paper reviews the development of the application of telepathology in a department of surgical pathology between 1991 and 2003. The goal of the efforts during this time was to give up the concept of programming a single application, available only between two fixed workstations with sophisticated devices and special software, and to find the virtual "largest common denominator" for implementing as many different applications as possible with the same basic system.

Methods: A new telepathology system was designed as a client-server system with a relational database at its centre.