Life Image
Life Image is the world's largest medical evidence and image exchange network providing access to points of care and curated imaging data. Founded in 2008, Life Image's Interoperability Suite is a digital platform that uses vendor-agnostic integration standards to connect more than 10,000 facilities, 160,000 providers, 58,000 global clinics, and millions of patients with life sciences, medical devices, and telehealth companies.
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| Industry | Medical Image Sharing |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Matthew A. Michela (CEO) |
Number of employees | 100 |
| Website | www |
The Interoperability Suite is interconnected to a technical ecosystem of EHRs, PACS, AI solutions, cloud environments, and analytics platforms. Its industry-leading connectivity solutions include Provider Exchange, Patient Connect, Network Build, Network Access and RWD Curation. Life Image is the exclusive provider of Real World Imaging,™ large-scale, heterogeneous, de-identified imaging sets linkable to other longitudinal data.
Key Statistics
Company growth
Outside of its historical hospital network centered in academic medical centers, the company now has a number of other healthcare sectors on the Life Image network:
- Telehealth (in both teleradiology and care coordination)
- Health plans
- Physicians and small physician groups
- Imaging centers
- Life sciences
- Artificial intelligence
- Clinical research
- Direct to consumer and consumer sponsored application
A Growing Partner Network
In November 2017, Life Image announced a partnership with Google Cloud Platform to develop novel solutions in artificial intelligence and machine learning.[6]
In March 2019, Life Image partnered with swyMed, a leading provider of mobile telemedicine solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership to enhance telestroke capabilities. This engagement improves the ability for physicians to collaborate and coordinate care while using swyMed's offering by seamlessly integrating relevant clinical and imaging data into the telemedicine encounter.
In the summer of 2020, Life Image announced two additional partnerships; one with Rapid AI and one with Hyland Healthcare. RapidAI™ is the worldwide leader in advanced imaging for stroke. The partnership extends the availability of Rapid®’s life-saving neuroimaging platform through Life Image's cloud network—facilitating direct connections between organizations that benefit from stroke imaging collaboration. Hyland Healthcare is a leading provider of connected healthcare enterprise imaging and content services. The partnership between Hyland and Life Image will improve data and imaging access between healthcare providers and their patients.
Value of the Life Image Network
The Life Image network delivers unique value across the health ecosystem. Our industry-leading connectivity solutions include Provider ExchangeTM, Patient ConnectTM, Network BuildTM, Network AccessTM and RWD CurationTM.
Provider Exchange: The Life Image Interoperability Suite is a set of applications for network connectivity across an ecosystem, enabling interoperability between providers, patients, and healthcare stakeholders. With Provider Exchange, providers can exchange medical images along with all types of medical data with your referral sites and on an ad hoc basis with patients and other providers.
Patient Connect: The Patient Connect Portal gives patients the ability to digitally collect both diagnostic images and medical data – securely online in one place. Doctors and patients can share with each other seamlessly. Unlike other portals, the Patient Connect Portal gives patients control over collecting and sharing images and medical data with care teams in order to manage chronic and complex conditions.
Network Build: This enterprise solution was designed to meet the growing market need to establish large-scale clinical networks and effectively manage the movement of advanced data, including medical images, in order to coordinate care and innovate. Telehealth, medical device companies, biopharma, regional HIEs, health systems and others rely on Life Image to get a global network up and running quickly without the need for onsite IT personnel.
Network Access: Life Image partners gain access to a patient-centered, global network with the ability to integrate advancements into healthcare workflows. Together, we are making groundbreaking innovations more readily available to hospital systems and patients.
RWD Curation: Life Image specializes in ‘living’ data sets of novel imaging that's linkable to other clinical information. We are the only company on the market today to bring large, heterogeneous, de-identified and linked imaging data sets integrated to longitudinal clinical outcomes to support your real-world evidence programs or for AI software creation, improvement, validation, or maintenance efforts.