IBM and i3 Archive Give Women Access to World’s Largest Digital Mammography System

IBM and i3 Archive Give Women Access to World’s Largest Digital Mammography System

IBM and i3 ARCHIVE, Inc. today announced that i3 has put the power of managing healthcare and fighting breast cancer into the hands of women around the country by launching MyNDMA, a personal health management portal linked directly to i3’s National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA), the world’s largest archive of digital mammography images and related data.

i3 and the NDMA were formed as a result of an overwhelmingly successful federally-funded project launched six years ago by the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with IBM, to change how hospitals and doctors store and access digital mammography images. Using IBM technology, i3 created a nationally coordinated system to help doctors and researchers diagnose, treat and find a cure for breast cancer.

When the project began, only four hospitals contributed records and had access to the NDMA database. Now, 24 hospitals can access the database of more than one million digital mammography images, giving an estimated 300 doctors and researchers unprecedented access to patient records, allowing faster diagnosis and treatment.

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