Life Image
Life Image is the world's largest healthcare network for exchanging clinical and operational information, including medical images. Founded in 2008, Life Image has spent the past 10 years innovating an interoperable network ecosystem, that connects hospitals, pharmaceuticals, medical device and telemedicine companies, individual physicians, and patients with medical imaging machines, storage databases, and electronic health records (EHRs). Today, the Life Image network connects over 1,500 facilities in the United States and over 50,000 clinics globally, including 8 of the top 10 U.S. hospitals.
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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 |
With its beginnings in medical image exchange, Life Image now orchestrates the flow of any and all clinical evidence, to help care teams across the patient's journey make on-time and informed decisions.
Key Statistics
- 1500+ U.S. facilities, including academic medical centers and health systems
- 8 of top 10 U.S. Hospitals
- 58,000 global providers
- 4 Billion images exchanged
- 10+ million clinical encounters changed each month
Life Image Approach
Life Image was founded on the belief that health IT is too complex and doesn’t integrate well into existing physician workflows. Its goal is to support digitization, image exchange, and an information governance strategy that is easy to implement, easy to scale, and easy to sustain without significant impact to hospital or pharma IT teams.
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)
- Radiology benefit management
- Physicians and small physician groups
- Imaging centers
- Life sciences
- Clinical research
- Direct to consumer and consumer sponsored application
Using artificial intelligence at scale across a global healthcare network
In November 2017, Life Image announced a partnership with Google Cloud Platform to develop novel solutions in artificial intelligence and machine learning.[1]
Patient Engagement
Life Image currently offers a patient engagement platform aimed at addressing a broad but specific medical problem: women's breast health. This patient-centric solution is built upon the Life Image medical information access network and has been specifically tailored for women's breast health under the brand of Mammosphere.
Mammosphere allows all types of clinical information, including breast health records, to be acquired securely and stored digitally, while maintaining diagnostic quality and sharability with physicians, researchers, and patients.
Patients can store these records in diagnostic quality regardless of the form they are received in. They can add records from any prior or ongoing physical documentation they may have (old CDs, reports, and or files), and then share all or part of those records with any provider or care-giver who needs the information for patient care.
Given Life Image's long history of working with providers, when a patient shares their information, the record can be absorbed by the hospital or physician's own information systems so they have access to it in the way they normally access records.
In March 2018, Mammosphere was selected as the digital platform to enable the WISDOM Study, a study of 100,000+ women, to find the safest and most effective breast cancer screening schedule. It is being conducted by The Athena Breast Health Network, a collaboration of breast cancer experts, health care providers, researchers, and patient advocates at five University of California Medical Centers (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCSD, UCSF) and the Sanford Health System.[2]