---
title: 'Episode 229: Ashley Faber – The Digital Pathology Buyer’s Guide Every Lab Needs'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-229-ashley-faber-the-digital-pathology-buyers-guide-every-lab-needs'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2026-05-18'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ng3edt3qz8qurg2s/Ashley_Faber8h85v.mp3'
---

# Episode 229: Ashley Faber – The Digital Pathology Buyer’s Guide Every Lab Needs

Today my guest is Ashley Faber, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Proscia What we discuss with Ashley: Ashley’s role at Proscia Why Proscia wrote the Digital Pathology Buyer’s Guide Why it’s important to differentiate between the need…

## Summary

Today my guest is Ashley Faber, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Proscia

What we discuss with Ashley:

- Ashley’s role at Proscia

- Why Proscia wrote the Digital Pathology Buyer’s Guide

- Why it’s important to differentiate between the need for an IMS vs an Enterprise Platform

- Evaluating software first not the scanner

- Why you should bring Pathologists in early

- Aligning stakeholders and criteria

- Treating pathology data as an asset

- Some thoughts on future proofing

- Don’t neglect evaluating support and after hours coverage

- Where to download the guide

Links for this episode:

[InVision from Cision Vision](https://demo.cisionvision.com/)

[The Path to PathA](http://www.thepathtopatha.com/)

[Pathologists' Assistant Shadowing Network](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14605997/)

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

[Digital Pathology Club](https://digitalpathology.club/digital-pathology-beginners-guide-notification?am_id=dennis985)

[Proscia's Digital Pathology Buyer's Guide](https://info.proscia.com/digital-pathology-buyers-guide)

[Report on the 2025 DICOM WSI Connectathon](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S215335392600115X)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/peopleofpath/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=87f3e0df-5864-418e-a5b3-5fdd260ba05b)