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Cloud-based platform for managing and sharing digital medical images for healthcare providers, ensuring HIPAA-compliant storage.
Key people at DICOM Grid.
DICOM Grid is a New York, New York-based healthcare technology company that provides a cloud-based platform for managing, exchanging, and storing digital medical images. Operating on a subscription-based business model, the company's proprietary software suite facilitates secure, HIPAA-compliant diagnostic imaging workflows and health data archiving for a broad network of 750 healthcare providers and 15,000 physicians. The enterprise platform currently serves several major medical institutions and hospital systems across the United States, including recognizable clinical customers like Memorial Hermann and Stanford Children’s Health. Prior to officially rebranding its corporate operations as Ambra Health in September 2016, the enterprise successfully secured $39 million in total venture funding from lead investors such as Canaan Partners, CHL Medical Partners, and the Mayo Clinic. DICOM Grid was originally founded in 2004 by Dr. Shahram Partovi and Dr. Roger Bird.
Key people at DICOM Grid.
DICOM Grid is a healthcare SaaS company that builds a cloud-based platform for medical image management, exchange, and viewing, including DICOM and non-DICOM data. It serves healthcare providers, hospitals, physicians, and patients—such as Mayo Clinic, Stanford Children's Hospital, Memorial Hermann, and over 750 providers—solving the problem of siloed medical images by enabling secure, easy sharing across institutions via web browsers and mobile viewers.[1][2][5][6] The platform, originally launched as DG Suite, offers vendor-neutral archiving (VNA), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), image routing, and HIPAA-compliant storage, with strong growth including 70% revenue increase in 2015 and near-doubling in early 2016, plus repeated KLAS awards for best medical image exchange from 2014-2017.[2][5][6][9] In 2016, it rebranded to Ambra Health (a DBA of DICOM Grid, Inc.), raised $6M in funding to total $39M, and expanded under Intelerad ownership, maintaining leadership in imaging workflows.[2][5][6][9]
Founded in 2004 in Phoenix, AZ, as DICOM Grid, Inc., by CEO Morris Panner and CTO Geoff Crawshaw, both serial entrepreneurs from OpenAir, Inc., which they built and sold to NetSuite.[1][2] Panner brought healthcare IT experience from early teleradiology ventures, while Crawshaw specialized in medical billing, virtualization, and radiology software like RMS.[1] The idea emerged to digitize and cloud-enable medical imaging, breaking silos for cross-institution access; early traction came from customers like Memorial Hermann, Baptist South Florida, and Barrow Neurological Institute, with HIPAA approval and KLAS awards solidifying momentum by 2014.[1][2] Pivotal moments included the 2016 rebrand to Ambra Health amid rapid growth and $6M funding led by Canaan Partners, plus product expansions beyond DICOM.[2][5][6]
DICOM Grid rides the shift to cloud-based healthcare IT, addressing imaging data silos amid rising demand for interoperable, accessible diagnostics in a fragmented U.S. system. Timing aligns with HIPAA evolution, EHR integration mandates, and post-2010s cloud adoption in medicine, fueled by cost pressures (e.g., storage savings) and telehealth/radiology booms.[2][5][6][9] Market forces like value-based care and AI-driven imaging favor its VNA/PACS backbone, enabling efficient workflows for large systems and research; it influences the ecosystem by setting standards for secure sharing, supporting 2,000+ organizations via Intelerad, and expanding globally to North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.[8][9]
DICOM Grid (as Ambra Health) will likely deepen AI integrations for imaging analytics, global expansion, and life sciences partnerships, capitalizing on Intelerad's scale for EHR/AI synergies. Trends like multimodal data (beyond DICOM), regulatory pushes for interoperability, and clinician mobility will propel growth, evolving its role from exchange leader to core imaging infrastructure amid healthcare digitization. This positions it to "heal" information access gaps, as founders envisioned, sustaining impact for providers and patients.[5][6][9]
