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Alternatives to Philips IntelliSpace PACS
21 healthcare tools sit alongside Philips IntelliSpace PACS in this directory. Below is what separates each from Philips IntelliSpace PACS on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 6
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Philips IntelliSpace PACS starts at
- On request
Why people look past Philips IntelliSpace PACS
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Philips IntelliSpace PACS entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Philips IntelliSpace PACS carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 6 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Philips IntelliSpace PACS publishes a single plan, IntelliSpace PACS at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Enterprise imaging platform covering PACS, VNA, cardiology and 3D from Fujifilm Healthcare
Priced and rated the same as Philips IntelliSpace PACS on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Cloud medical image exchange and vendor neutral archive, now part of Intelerad
Priced and rated the same as Philips IntelliSpace PACS on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Leading electronic health records system for healthcare organizations
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Philips IntelliSpace PACS does not.
Open source hospital information system and EMR for low-resource hospitals, built on OpenMRS
- Can be used without paying; Philips IntelliSpace PACS cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Period and cycle tracking app that settled with the US FTC in 2021 over sharing health data with third parties despite promising not to
- Can be used without paying; Philips IntelliSpace PACS cannot.
- Sold on a Free with a Premium subscription model rather than quote.
Open source electronic medical record platform for low-resource settings, with no vendor and paid implementers instead
- Can be used without paying; Philips IntelliSpace PACS cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Every Philips IntelliSpace PACS alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philips IntelliSpace PACS (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| Fujifilm SynapseFujifilm Synapse is the more common choice for sites that want PACS decoupled from their modality vendor | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Ambra HealthAmbra Health is the cloud first option when the priority is external image exchange rather than in department diagnostic reading | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Epic SystemsEpic Radiant plus a vendor neutral archive keeps radiology workflow inside the existing electronic health record | Free | Quote | - | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Bahmni | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Flo | Free | Free with a Premium subscription | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| OpenMRS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Clue | Free | Free with a Plus subscription | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| GNU Health | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| DHIS2 | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 3 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Annalise.ai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Included Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Lunit | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Ibex Medical Analytics | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Gleamer | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Aidoc | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Lyra Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Koa Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Meru Health | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| PathAI | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Paige | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
| Beckman Coulter DxONE | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Philips IntelliSpace PACS |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Philips IntelliSpace PACS badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Philips IntelliSpace PACS is most often brought in for a hospital replacing an end of life pacs that already runs a large philips ct and mr estate and wants modality and reading integration in one support contract, a radiology group consolidating several departmental archives into one enterprise archive with a single radiologist worklist, a health system that wants to move diagnostic reading off local workstations into a cloud hosted environment via the aws listing, sites that need server side advanced visualisation so radiologists can do 3d and vessel work without dedicated 3d workstations. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Philips IntelliSpace PACS is broadly right and the question is cost, the Philips IntelliSpace PACS pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Healthcare category lists everything the directory holds, and best healthcare tools ranks them.
Philips IntelliSpace PACS runs on web, windows. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Philips IntelliSpace PACS alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Philips IntelliSpace PACS?
- 21 other healthcare tools are listed in this directory, led by Fujifilm Synapse, Ambra Health, Epic Systems, Bahmni. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Philips IntelliSpace PACS?
- 6 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Bahmni, Flo, OpenMRS, Clue, GNU Health.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Philips IntelliSpace PACS?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Philips IntelliSpace PACS?
- Philips IntelliSpace PACS is most often brought in for a hospital replacing an end of life pacs that already runs a large philips ct and mr estate and wants modality and reading integration in one support contract, a radiology group consolidating several departmental archives into one enterprise archive with a single radiologist worklist, a health system that wants to move diagnostic reading off local workstations into a cloud hosted environment via the aws listing, sites that need server side advanced visualisation so radiologists can do 3d and vessel work without dedicated 3d workstations. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Philips IntelliSpace PACS?
- None of the healthcare tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Philips IntelliSpace PACS alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Healthcare, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Philips IntelliSpace PACS against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Philips IntelliSpace PACS covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every healthcare tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Healthcare category, 21 tools beside Philips IntelliSpace PACS. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.






