{"id":14327,"date":"2021-06-23T06:40:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T04:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/agora-cares-platform-gives-patients-control-over-their-medical-images\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:40:18","slug":"agora-cares-platform-gives-patients-control-over-their-medical-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/agora-cares-platform-gives-patients-control-over-their-medical-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Agora Care\u2019s platform gives patients control over their medical images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building on a decades long track record of developing renowned open source platforms for the management and analysis of medical images, Med-IT start-up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agora-care.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agora Care<\/a> is determined to provide patients with the most secure and convenient digital platform for storage and management of medical images.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva-based start-up\u2019s solution will give patients the opportunity to be fully in control of their medical images using a simple web-based platform allowing them to share the results of imaging procedures with medical practitioners and healthcare providers anywhere in the world at any time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of access to previously performed examinations is a major source of erroneous medical decisions and unjustified costs \u2013 not to mention the unnecessary radiation that patients are exposed to due to repeated exams,\u201d explains Prof. Osman Ratib, CEO of Agora Care.<\/p>\n<h4>Geneva, an ideal runway to launch innovative digital health ventures<\/h4>\n<p>In addition to the closing of a $ 1 million pre-seed financing round, the start-up also announced the appointment of Dr. Jurgi Camblong, co-founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophiagenetics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOPHiA GENETICS<\/a>, as chair of the Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Agora Care also benefits from the support of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fongit.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FONGIT<\/a>\u00a0foundation in Geneva. \u201cWe are delighted to see the interest that Agora Care is rapidly gaining\u201d says Antonio Gambardella, Director of FONGIT. \u201cAs a state-supported organization, we believe that Geneva, home to WHO and a world-class university hospital (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hug.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HUG<\/a>), is an ideal runway to launch this innovative digital health venture with global ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva Med-IT start-up Agora Care, thanks to its new generation of web-based, patient-centered storage for medical images, has announced the closing of a $ 1 million pre-seed financing round and the nomination of Sophia Genetics\u2019 CEO as Chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[833],"tags":[890,974,902],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-science","tag-healthcare","tag-ict","tag-personalized-medicine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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