Inspirata, EMC team up on digital pathology
Inspirata, a provider of a digital pathology workflow solution, said that EMC Corp. will the on-premise and cloud-based utilities required for anatomical pathology image storage, data retrieval, and data security for Inspirata’s customers.
Inspirata offers a “solution-as-a-service” business model, which bundles all of the hardware, software, data storage, services, and resources as operating costs, which are then spread over the life of the engagement. That is opposed to requiring up-front capital investment by the institution.
“Inspirata digitizes glass pathology slides and then leverages the high-resolution images to provide pathologists with new decision-support aids such as computational image analytics and content-based image retrieval, enabling them to make better informed decisions,” Inspirata CEO Satish Sanan said in a statement. “This process requires petabytes of data storage and real-time image retrieval, so we needed to find a partner who could provide us with a highly reliable, scalable, secure, and flexible big data analytics platform. EMC’s data lake offers everything we need to automate the pathology workflow and, ultimately, to support better cancer diagnostics through data analytics.”