Technology

Corista’s DP3’s system is bringing to market the next generation in imaging processing, compression and distribution technologies for use in medical imaging applications. Our technologies enable the application, transport and compression of medical images, particularly those in Pathology, which currently reside on glass slides.

Corista is building a Digital Pathology Processing Platform (DP3) to holistically manage the life cycle of Pathology image management

The sheer size of pathology’s digitized images presents a substantial technical challenge to the healthcare professionals that handle and manage the images, including Doctors, Hospitals & Healthcare Centers. With current technologies the file size has represented an absolute barrier to utilization of a digital platform for Pathology, which works within a network.

Corista’s technology addresses this barrier and will provide an end to end solution for the practice of pathology in a digital setting.

A digital environment will provide economies for Pathology and become the market standard for the practice area over the next decade.  Corista believes the benefits enjoyed by Radiology, which began its migration to digital imaging over the past 20 years, will also be enjoyed by Pathology.  The primary benefits of digital imaging for Radiology have been:

• improved patient care
• reduced healthcare delivery costs
• expanded physician referral networks
• compliance with government archiving requirements

The requirements physicians face from a constantly increasing workload, and demands for quality assurance with enhanced efficiency, and regulatory constraints to archive medical information are among the many factors impacting the work process in Pathology. The practice of Pathology supported by Corista’s Digital Pathology Processing Platform (DP3) will enable the digitizing of macroscopic or microscopic images and relevant patient information for Pathology specialists to perform primary diagnosis, second opinion consultations, frozen section real time diagnosis and consultation in addition to the archiving of images, education and research, and continuing medical education (CME).

Participants within this network will be able to capture digital macroscopic and microscopic images linked to patient demographic and clinical information and the user will be able to manage and control this information for diagnosis, consultations, storage and archiving, education, and research.

Read the abstract of the paper published by Massachusetts General Hospital's pathology department in cooperation with Corista, which was presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting in April of 2008. (you will need Adobe Reader to view the abstract)