Internet of Things May Help Agencies Respond to Zika

Internet of Things May Help Agencies Respond to Zika

Think of a digital image that is the size of a dining room table. Now consider scanning that image for a particular color or pattern. There is a great deal of space to survey. But the individual who needs to analyze that image need not be present in the dining room.
That's how Deepak Puri, the chief solutions architect for a San Francisco-based technology consultancy called Skilled Analysts, explains digital pathology. What undergirds this process is virtual microscopy, technology that allows a pathologist to remotely view a blood or tissue specimen on a glass slide on a microscope that creates a high-resolution image, which is then saved in the cloud.