Joint Pathology Center Goes Digital, Signs Deals with Proscia, Huron

It’s a major endorsement of digital pathology and whole slide imaging. Last week, the federal government’s Joint Pathology Center announced agreements with two digital pathology companies. The goal is to digitize incoming slides and archived slides, support a digital pathology workflow, and make the digitized slides searchable to pathologists and researchers. The first agreement was announced on Oct. 20. The Joint Pathology Center (JPC) will use Philadelphia-based Proscia’s Concentriq “digital and computational platform” as the foundation for management of images, data, and workflow