Company Formed to Organize the World’s Trillions of Medical Images

Avandra has launched out of stealth, offering the healthcare industry a federated central repository for medical imaging and clinical data.

Avandra’s network aims to organize trillions of global medical images and create a data ecosystem for research and innovation. It uses industry-leading de-identification and tokenization solutions to securely deliver aggregated, multimodal data to power the future of health.

“Imaging serves as a clinical point of truth and is central to most health care diagnoses. Yet, researchers face significant challenges in accessing and sorting through the trillions of medical images and reports to find the specific patient studies relevant to their research, even within the same medical system,” Avandra Founder/CEO Ryan Tarzy said. “Avandra unlocks access to the insights currently hidden within medical imaging. By streamlining the sharing process and prioritizing patient data protection, we aim to foster a secure, collaborative medical research ecosystem that responsibly drives forward innovation.”

Avandra’s medical image ecosystem was built as a data marketplace for:

• Biopharma: Supporting clinical trial design and patient selection, access to niche datasets for rare diseases and novel therapies, accelerating preclinical to clinical translation, and identifying and validating imaging biomarkers.
• Medical researchers: Accelerating access to diverse datasets to meet the needs of academic and medical researchers by providing comprehensive imaging data analysis, supporting multi-center imaging studies with standardized data, and scalable solutions to accommodate multiple research projects.
• AI companies: Training and validating algorithms on large, diverse multimodal datasets, accessing raw and annotated imaging data, and benchmarking model performance against diverse populations.

In tandem with its launch, Avandra has closed a collaboration with Datavant, a health data platform company focused on securing the world’s medical data and ensuring both its accessibility and usability. Datavant will enable Avandra to promote a transparent, secure, and informed data exchange, providing actionable clinical insights and value to health systems and their research partners. As the largest health data network, Datavant includes more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics.

The collaboration will also help integrate multimodal last-mile data, including imaging and clinical data, into Avandra’s secure federated network. Avandra has secured other commercial agreements across health systems, life sciences, and biotech. Avandra is currently involved in several patient imaging studies that support research on various therapeutic areas, with an initial focus on oncology, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Avandra is the largest federated network for de-identified medical image data. Recognizing the vital role of medical imaging in healthcare diagnoses, Avandra was created to organize the more than 2 trillion medical images worldwide to advance research and innovation. Its network serves as a diverse data and analysis marketplace for biopharma, researchers, providers, and artificial intelligence companies.