Agora Care Clinical testing begins in Geneva

In a key milestone, Geneva-based Agora Care is launching three clinical pilots in the Health Valley. ImageRive, the radiology center part of the UNILABS network will be the first to test Agora Care Platform. As Professor Osman Ratib explains to Startupticker.ch, the free platform for patients consists of two parts: the front end which is a web-app especially designed for patients and referring physicians (not for diagnosis) and a back-end managing complex and secure workflow for:

• data acquisition for radiology centers
• manual upload of imaging data by the patients themselves
• management of access and communication of data that is fully managed by the patient
• All the necessary functions to transfer the data to selected physicians and healthcare institutions

Agora Care 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. The patient who owns an account on the Agora Care platform will receive radiological images from imaging centers as soon as they are completed and will be able to have them automatically forwarded securely to the referring physicians. The free platform for patients will represent a huge step forward.

Addressing a growing global market

As the need for big data and large reference databases grows to support precision medicine, personalized treatments and clinical trials, the team led by Professor Osman Ratib is working hard to empower patients and accelerate research. The market is expected to reach USD 73.8 billion by 2025. To further grow and seize this opportunity, the cofounders are currently finalizing their second financing round before summer. Based in Geneva and supported by Fongit, the company employs already 7 persons.

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