The Lieca SCN400 does a great job at that. 

http://www.leicabiosystems.com/pathology-imaging/epathology/pathologists/image-capture-devices/details/product/leica-scn400-2/

Apart from the ease that it brings to diagnosis and teaching, scanned slide are easily archived digitally. 

Hi, actually Antech (large  vet diagnostic laboratory in USA) is now doing this alot and sending the images to its remotely located veterinary pathologists. I have seen it working and it is very impressive. For medical pathology, I am told ( i dont no for definite), there are issues around the legalities of making a diagnosis using scanned images.

thank you.

We are using Nanozoomer. Try to see the various slides to log in 

http://202.253.12.28/NDPServe.dll?ViewItem?ItemID=21

and sign in as a guest. up to Home and visit any folders.

[email protected] (Haruhiko Sugimura MD, PhD)

thank you for the link!

We use whole slide scans for teaching and it is very powerful but for subtle changes the resolution is not as good as the original slide, especially if the slides are not scanned at 100 x magnification (oil immersion).  However, you can send snapshots of significant findings to experts anywhere for their opinion or you can examine it real time using a webinar with whomever can log in - an even more powerful tool for teaching and diagnosis.

Derek, do you use one of the new high troughput devices?

Hi Gudrun

We couldn't afford to buy a scanner for the low throughput we have so send them away to another university and pay AU$7-15 per scan depending on the resolution and number ordered. Much cheaper for us overall although longer lead-time.

thanks again. We want to prepare for real tele-diagnostics with the "best device on the market". Don't know who will pay ;-)

And there are some legal and technical issues for this project, that have to be solved.

You should contact my collegae Alexi Baidoshvilli at LabPON in Hengelo, the Netherlands (which is one of the largest laboratories in Europe). Although I do research in Utrecht, I do my diagnostic work in Hengelo and for the past 4 years Alexi (together with a few other collegeas in our lab) has been validating and testing multiple scanners (Leica, Hamamatsu and Philips) and programs for quality, speed and accuracy, since we are currently working our way to digitalizing our laboratory for real. At this moment we're also involved in the development of an user-friendly interface for digital pathology for primary diagnostic purposes and tele-pathology. He can tell you all ins and outs of our experiences so far.

Marieke, thank you. I will try to contact Dr. Baidoshvilli.

Dear Gudrun please have a look, we compared scanners in this review: Current Status of Automatisation in the Process of Visualisation and Analysis: What is and what will be important for Toxicological Pathology ? Krinke. G., Noguchi, C., Doelemeyer, A., Kohler, M., Mecklenburg, L., Nolte, T., Persohn, E., Seeliger, F., Wendt, M, Wöhrmann, T. & Germann, P.-G.,  J Toxicol Pathol Vol. 21; 207-221,  2008 (you can download from my publication list;. At AbbVie we are using Aperio system as a global exchange system, but mainly overnight, so the speed might be slow BEst regards Paul

Paul, thank you for your input. I'm glad about the literature.

We recently bought Zeiss Axioscan. Z1

Quite satisfied with it and the objectives have a bit higher NA. This gives quite natural appearance of the scan and, on top, pathologists will like it.

What exact configuration will you need.?

I had worked on 3D Histech Mirax systems, Aperio, Hamamatsu Nanozoomer, Leica SCN400 and recently on Zeiss Axioscan. 

All are good enough. Main concern is price and applications of course.

Ivan, thanks for your input. I'm just collecting infos to see, what a possible configuration may be. In near future we will have meetings with representatives of Hamamatsu, Leica and Roche. Did you have a favourite, when working with the scanners and softwares?