Blackford Platform™
Futureproof your AI strategy with Blackford's
tried-and-trusted Enterprise AI Platform

Blackford's Enterprise AI Platform is trusted by leading hospital systems and healthcare technology providers such as GE Healthcare, Intelerad and Philips.
Seamlessly integrated with your existing workflows, Blackford Platform™ provides a flexible, scalable and secure foundation to underpin your AI strategy and simplify the implementation and ongoing monitoring of multiple imaging and operational AI applications across your Healthcare Enterprise.
Applications from our comprehensive portfolio of 140+ AI portfolio, as well as your own in-house developed AI, can be quickly and efficiently deployed to the platform, reducing procurement and implementation time, costs, and long-term maintenance and enabling cross-departmental interoperability.
Blackford's zero-footprint Accept/Reject Tool allows for the AI results of contextually launched studies to be reviewed before being sent to the PACS.
Platform performance is monitored 24/7 by Blackford Dashboard™ and our customizable AI Analytics Suite provides rich and flexible access to comprehensive clinical data and metrics.
Features of the Blackford Platform™

Interoperability Engine
Efficient, timely and appropriate clinical workflow integration inside and outside of your imaging departments by supplying results in the right format for your systems at the right time.
Fully DICOMcompliant + HL7
DICOM compliant and integrated with DICOM modality worklist to pre-fetch prior studies for analysis. HL7 for orchestration and reporting.

Configurable Dataflow
Configurable data flow management provides multiple adaptable SCPs that maximize data ingestion speed, customizable AE titles for manual triggering, and comprehensive patient consolidation from multiple sources.

Ultra-fast Cache
Ultra-fast hybrid cache manages and prioritizes incoming data, quickly transferring it to clinical applications. Automated cache optimization provides fast access to cached data, cascading storage, and proprietary indexing.

Relevancy Engine
Relevancy engine determines which studies to send to each clinical application and collates descriptor knowledge from all deployments.

Accept/Reject Tool
Blackford's zero-footprint Accept/Reject Tool allows for the AI results of contextually launched studies to be reviewed before being sent to the PACS
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Key Benefits of the Blackford Platform™

Simplify with
one strategic partner
Working with a single partner means one point of contact, contract, deployment,and support, eliminating the extra time and effort to support AI solutions across multiple vendors.

Efficient evaluation,
deployment and maintenance
New applications can be evaluated, validated and deployed quickly and efficiently on the existing platform, reducing deployment time, costs, maintenance, monitoring, and support requirements.

Access a comprehensive portfolio of 140+ AI apps
from a single platform
A single platform to enable deployment and management of multiple imaging and operational AI applications that deliver specific benefits for radiologists and referring clinicians.

Optimize use
of existing resources
Fully integrated
with existing systems to minimize impact and eliminate performance degradation.
Management of DICOM interface minimizes impact on PACS.

A single point of contract, contact, deployment and monitoring
Once installed and configured, additional AI applications can be evaluated, validated and added to your platform quickly, reducing time, risk and costs.

Leverage your existing technology provider relationships to access AI quickly and seamlessly
We partner with leading
PACS and technology providers such as Philips, Intelerad, Rhapsody and Mach7 to simplify the route into AI for healthcare providers

An expert proactive partner providing consultative support
Blackford's experienced team of AI experts is continually reviewing the medical AI space to ensure our customers have access to a comprehensive breadth and depth of AI applications.
Our expert team helps guide you through every step of your AI journey.

Deploy your own in-house developed AI applications
Blackford enables our customers to efficiently and seamlessly deploy your in-house built AI applications
on the Blackford platform, alongside deployment of apps from our extensive partner AI portfolio.
Blackford Dashboard™
Blackford Dashboard™ is a powerful monitoring tool for users of the Blackford Platform™. By providing 24/7 insight into the platform’s health, as well as all activity and data being processed on it, our dashboard allows PACS vendors, PACS administrators and healthcare IT departments to save time through unparalleled access to the key system health and analysis information they need.

Activity Monitoring
Provides real-time information on processing activities, such as numbers of studies received, number of jobs triggered, number of jobs that produced results, total job turn-around time, and how often third-party applications were triggered.

Data Monitoring
Generates summaries of data processed on Blackford Platform across any time period, from minutes to years, including reported totals as well as graphs.

System Health Monitoring
Provides detailed information about the running status of Blackford Platform, as well as monitoring information on the server it is running on, including memory and hard drive space.

Secure
Encrypts all monitoring data during transmission, does not transmit any PHI and access requires two-factor authentication.

Mobile Enabled
Several of our applications work across desktops, tablets and mobile phones.

Accept/Reject Tool
Blackford's Zero-Footprint Accept/Reject Tool allows for the AI results of contextually launched studies to be reviewed before being sent to the PACS
Who we help

Radiologist Clinicians
Radiologists, Radiology Directors, Technologists and other radiology staff
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Non-Radiologist Clinicians
Clinicians, Neurologists, Oncologists, Orthopods and other referring Clinicians
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Administration
Senior hospital administrators including CIO, CMO, CMIO, CFO and legal counsel
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