Episode 26 - Thomas Barr, Industry Innovation

Tom Barr is an industry veteran. He was an early adopter of digital pathology - utilizing various hardware platforms as well as commercial and custom software. We will look at some of the early challenges to whole slide imaging (WSI), software solutions, networking, storage and interoperability Tom was instrumental in developing VIPER (Virtual Imaging for Pathology Education and Research) at Nationwide Children's Hospital and developing the digital pathology network used in clinical trials for many of the large cooperative groups as well as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)program. He is currently a founder at HyperPath Solutions.