Medicom partners with academic institutions to expand enterprise imaging offerings
Health tech company Medicom is set to expand its capabilities in the enterprise imaging space, thanks to a successful round of funding.
On Monday, the company announced that it had secured commitments from multiple investors, including two leading academic institutions—UPMC Enterprises, the venture capital arm of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and TGH Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Tampa General Hospital. These new partnerships will enable Medicom to incorporate medical expertise into the conversations that drive interoperability in healthcare and research.
"As we continue to strengthen our core enterprise imaging interoperability platform and unlock transformative insights from Real-World Data, we are excited to have two extraordinary partners join our team," Medicom Co-founder and CEO Michael Rosenberg said in a release on the partnerships. "Medicom's alignment with UPMC's and TGH's missions around interoperability and RWD&E will accelerate the platform's evolution and commercialization, and we are excited to see the impact these partnerships will have on our thousands of Medicom Connect and Intellect user organizations."
Brent Burns, executive VP of digital solutions at UPMC Enterprises, added that enterprise imaging solutions are “critical to supporting clinical and academic research” and expressed optimism for how the new partnership will enable the institution to streamline data sharing.
"At UPMC Enterprises, we have a front row seat to the transformation that healthcare is undergoing as data becomes more accessible and interoperability improves," Burns said. “We are thrilled to partner with Medicom and bring their expertise in secure and efficient medical image and data exchange to support UPMC's continued leadership in healthcare research."
Tampa General Hospital has been taking advantage of Medicom’s enterprise imaging offering since 2021. Doing so has “allowed TGH Imaging to increase telemetry, observability and control while reducing overall image exchange costs,” Sherri Lewman, senior vice president of enterprise imaging for the health system, noted in the same release.
Medicom was recognized by KLAS as one of the most promising health IT imaging vendors in 2024. Since its launch in 2017, the company has seen over 300% annual growth, initiated more than 2 million data transfers and been chosen as the enterprise network of choice by the Veterans Health Administration.
In addition to her background in journalism, Hannah also has patient-facing experience in clinical settings, having spent more than 12 years working as a registered rad tech. She began covering the medical imaging industry for Innovate Healthcare in 2021.