Ambra Health (formerly DICOM Grid), is a software company that provides solutions for

medical image sharing Medical image sharing is the electronic exchange of medical images between hospitals, physicians and patients. Rather than using traditional media, such as a CD or DVD, and either shipping it out or having patients carry it with them, technology ...

DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data. DICOM is most commonly used for storing and transmitting medical images enabling the integ ...

and non-DICOM data between patients, physicians, and hospitals.

History

The company was founded as DICOM Grid, Inc. in 2004 to make digital medical imaging on a cloud based platform. DICOM Grid launched their cloud based platform as DG Suite, that allows to store

diagnostic imaging Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging seeks to rev ...

and health data in its platform that can be accessed and shared by the healthcare providers and patients. The platform was later approved under the

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy– Kassebaum Act) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1 ...

(HIPAA). It received best in KLAS awards continuously from 2014 to 2017 and also received 2016 SIIA CODiE award. In September 2016, the company re-branded itself to Ambra Health a DBA of DICOM Grid, Inc. As of 2017, the company claims to have 750 healthcare providers using its platform.

Products and Services

* DICOM and non-DICOM image viewer *

Medical Image Sharing Medical image sharing is the electronic exchange of medical images between hospitals, physicians and patients. Rather than using traditional media, such as a CD or DVD, and either shipping it out or having patients carry it with them, technology ...

* Image routing *

Vendor Neutral Archive A Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) is a medical imaging technology in which images and documents (and potentially any file of clinical relevance) are stored (archived) in a standard format with a standard interface, such that they can be accessed in ...

* Cloud computing based Picture & Archiving Communications System

Funding

* March 2010- $11.88 million * Nov, 2010- $7.5 million * May, 2012- $5 million * July, 2014- $6 million * Nov, 2015- $3 million * March, 2016- $6 million * September, 2016- $6 million

Partnerships

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* drchrono * Modernizing Medicine * Radiological Society of North America * RSNA Image Share
CommonWell Health Alliance

References

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