INFINITT North America announced a collaboration with Hamamatsu Corporation to jointly promote Hamamatsu whole slide scanners and INFINITT Digital Pathology Solution to its United States customers. By partnering with Hamamatsu, INFINITT can offer an enhanced integration with NanoZoomers, enabling laboratories and pathologists to seamlessly review slides in an end-to-end operational workflow. Further, the ability of IDPS to integrate with LIS will allow pathologists to work more efficiently in a digital environment.

Hamamatsu's NanoZoomer series of whole slide scanners has been developed with almost 70 years of experience in photonics. IDPS allows scanned images to be analyzed by advanced digital and computational tools, and enables rapid communication with multiple users for second opinion or multi-disciplinary team (MDT) review. As laboratories adopt digital pathology, they must leverage a complex hardware and software solutions ecosystem to facilitate pathologists' workflow.

In addition, these laboratories are now recognizing that the image quality, flexibility, and the reliability of the whole slide scanners are critical to helping users get over the adoption chasm within the organization. According to Don Ariyakumar, Product Manager at Hamamatsu, interoperability is key to the success of the adoption of digital pathology, so working with partners is very important for organizations such as Hamamatsu. Don, additionally acknowledges that the customers should be able to build the best-of-breed products for their organizations.

Hamamatsu and INFINITT bring together Hamamatsu's NanoZoomer whole slide scanners with INFINITT's enterprise platform to manage images, data, and algorithms to streamline pathology workflows.