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Ambra Health

company with software for medical image sharing

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ39056062
Source-derived summary

Ambra Health (formerly DICOM Grid), is a software company that provides solutions for medical image sharing of DICOM and non-DICOM data between patients, physicians, and hospitals.

History

The company was founded as DICOM Grid, Inc. in 2004 to make digital medical imaging on a cloud based platform. DICOM Grid launched their cloud based platform as DG Suite, that allows to store diagnostic imaging and health data in its platform that can be accessed and shared by the healthcare providers and patients. The platform was later approved under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It received best in KLAS awards continuously from 2014 to 2017 and also received 2016 SIIA CODiE award.

In September 2016, the company re-branded itself to Ambra Health a DBA of DICOM Grid, Inc. As of 2017, the company claims to have 750 healthcare providers using its platform.

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The public source identifies “Ambra Health” as company with software for medical image sharing. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ambra, Health and company.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2014, 2017, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ambra, Health and company providing the first useful test.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39056062. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2014, 2017 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Ambra Health” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.