Intelemage: Secure and Compliant Access to Medical Images and Clinical Data

As the digital-imaging realm is embraced across the healthcare sector, there arose a need for secure and compliant access to medical images and associated data for all players in the healthcare system. “The exchange of medical images and associated data in the healthcare ecosystem has historically been a manual and time-consuming process,” expounds Dan Braga, Co-founder and VP, Business Development, Intelemage. “There was an increased demand to make this process faster, more compliant, and less expensive.”

Intelemage, through its flagship medical image sharing solution known as the InteleGRID, has brought significant value to all players in the healthcare space including physicians, hospitals, research organizations, and life sciences companies.“The combination of our image transfer technologies as well as workflow management solutions puts us in a very unique position in the industry,” explains Braga. “Our approach is focused strongly on both the life sciences industry as well as the hospital and physician communities, as you cannot be successful in one without truly understanding the other.”

All Intelemage solutions include the ability to perform edit checks on the medical images, as well as clinical data, prior to ever leaving the sending institution. This significantly decreases errors and ensures that the data is accurate and ready to move on to the next step in the workflow process. Furthermore, Braga emphasizes the need to leverage mobile technologies in various use cases of their technology. For example, orthopedic surgeons are not always in front of a computer when the need for a consult arises, therefore the need to have medical images and associated data available on mobile devices is important. There is little to no barrier to entry to getting started with Intelemage solutions, as all solutions are sold on a transactional basis with minimal to no capital investment required. Moreover, their solutions are highly configurable. “Configurable to us means that the client can make configuration changes without getting the vendor involved, whenever appropriate. Organizations may not know what they want right away, therefore need a system that they can grow with at their own pace, both operationally and financially.” opines Braga.