Guilford’s Butterfly Network, Inc. announced Tuesday it will partner with software firm Ambra Health to expand the capabilities of its bedside ultrasound device.
Butterfly Network will integrate Ambra’s software into its existing Blueprint platform to enhance access to and shareability of imaging data from its portable Butterfly iQ+ ultrasound device. The integrated platform will allow providers in hospitals and health systems to view and securely share ultrasound information, the company said.
The combined product is slated to be available in the first quarter of this year and will be offered to both new and existing Butterfly Network clients.
Butterfly Network Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer Darius Shahida said, “Leveraging Ambra’s capabilities in medical data management, our Blueprint platform can now more seamlessly integrate as part of the clinical workflows and with the many systems that care teams depend on. This partnership will greatly accelerate the transformational potential Butterfly can have across hospitals and health systems, and across the industry at large.”
Ambra Health, a New York-based division of Canada’s Intelerad, works with eight of the top 10 hospitals across the U.S. to streamline medical imaging.
Intelerad President Morris Panner said, “Encounter-based imaging has the power to transform diagnostics and care delivery. Ambra’s cloud-based technological underpinning is poised to speed realization of this potential.”
Set to move to Boston later this year, Butterfly Network merged with hedge fund-backed Longview Acquisition Corp. and went public last year in a deal valued at $1.5 billion. Founder Jonathan Rothberg’s development of a bedside or “encounter-based” ultrasound device helped vault the company into the ranks of billion-dollar-valuation tech unicorns in 2018.
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