NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambra Health, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced that Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Weill Cornell Medicine have selected Ambra's best-in-class imaging solutions. The latest wave of leading enterprise customers marks significant growth for Ambra, which has continued to expand its platform to deepen patient engagement and accessibility, including a new app launched last month and new patient portal capabilities. Ambra Health will be showcasing its medical image management solutions at Booth #1122 at the upcoming Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference on November 25 - 30 in Chicago, Illinois.

The Ambra Health platform offers hospital networks the ability to receive and exchange imaging with ease, widen referral networks, and increase the availability of imaging data so that it can be used for research, AI, and machine learning innovations. Enabling access to imaging across departments and facilities is critical to speeding up communication among medical staff and reducing time-to-care delivery. A successful image management strategy powered by Ambra Health not only covers imaging acquisition but also the return of valuable information to the referring network or directly to the patient.

At leading facilities, like Johns Hopkins Medicine, the sharing of medical images often includes receiving information from referring physicians and patients. Today, with Ambra Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine uploads over 600 imaging studies per day. Providing referring physicians with access to imaging can be a powerful way to reduce duplicative studies, and patient portals boost patient engagement as well as drive administrative efficiencies and improve care.
Previously, Cincinnati Children's Hospital was burning costly CDs several times a day while receiving more than 30,000 outside imaging studies each year. Today, Cincinnati Children's Hospital uses Ambra's gateway software to to share and receive images electronically from other image sharing platforms across their wide network and route them to where they need to be when they need to be there. The use of these gateways has helped to reduce redundant imaging and additional anesthesia for duplicate MRI procedures among their pediatric population. "When Cincinnati Children's was looking for an image sharing solution we thought the network mattered. It turns out it doesn't. Gateways matter," said Alex Towbin MD, Radiologist, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging Associate Chief, Clinical Operations and Informatics Neil D. Johnson Chair of Radiology Informatics.

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