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Ambra Health
Cloud medical image exchange and vendor neutral archive, now part of Intelerad
As of 1 September 2026, Ambra Health's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Ambra Health is a cloud medical image management and exchange platform used to move DICOM studies between hospitals, referring physicians, patients and research sites. Softwr lists it under Healthcare. Ambra Health is made by Intelerad Medical Systems, available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Ambra Health does
Ambra Health is a cloud native platform for medical image exchange, storage and viewing. Its core job is moving DICOM studies across organisational boundaries: a transferring hospital pushing a trauma CT to a receiving trauma centre, a patient uploading a disc from an outside imaging centre, a clinical trial site sending studies to a central reading facility. It includes a cloud vendor neutral archive, a zero footprint HTML5 viewer that needs no client install, and upload portals for patients and referring practices. The distinguishing capability is that Ambra was built for the boundary rather than for the reading room. Traditional PACS assumes images stay inside one organisation; Ambra assumes they do not, and its identity reconciliation, patient matching and permissioning are built around receiving studies with foreign accession numbers and mismatched patient identifiers. That is why health systems commonly run Ambra alongside a departmental PACS rather than instead of one. The ownership change is the fact that should change a shortlist. Intelerad acquired Ambra Health, ambrahealth.com now redirects to the Intelerad client support pages, and Ambra is presented as one product line within Intelerad enterprise imaging. It is still sold under the Ambra name, but a buyer is now buying into the Intelerad portfolio and its roadmap priorities, and should ask explicitly how Ambra is positioned against Intelerad own cloud PACS before signing a multi year term.
What people use it for
- A trauma centre that receives transfers from regional hospitals and needs outside CT studies readable before the patient arrives, not after a disc is walked in
- An oncology programme collecting outside imaging for multidisciplinary tumour board review from dozens of referring practices
- A clinical research organisation routing de identified trial imaging from many sites to one central reading facility
- A health system trying to eliminate the CD import desk by giving patients and referring practices a direct upload portal
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- Intelerad now owns Ambra and ambrahealth.com redirects to Intelerad client support, so a buyer is committing to the Intelerad portfolio roadmap and should get written positioning on Ambra versus Intelerad own cloud PACS before signing.
- Ambra is built for cross organisation exchange, not for high volume in department diagnostic reading, so a radiology group that expects it to replace a departmental PACS finds the reading ergonomics and hanging protocols thinner than a dedicated PACS client.
- Pricing scales with study volume and stored capacity, so a health system that turns on patient upload broadly sees storage grow from low value outside studies it never intended to retain, and the renewal reflects that.
- Identity reconciliation of studies arriving with foreign patient identifiers still needs human review at volume, and sites that budget for zero touch matching end up staffing an imaging records queue.
- Adoption depends on referring practices actually using the portal, and the vendor cannot make that happen, so image exchange projects frequently stall at the outreach and change management step rather than at the technology.
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- Ambra HealthvsEpic Systems
Epic Systems: Epic Care Everywhere already moves some imaging between Epic sites, which can cover part of the exchange need at no extra licence
Pricing
What Ambra Health costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Ambra Health
On request
- Priced by annual study volume and stored capacity
- Exchange partner connections and upload portals scoped per deployment
- Zero footprint viewer licensed with the platform
- Integration and HL7 interface work quoted as professional services
Capabilities
Features
Image exchange
Push and pull DICOM studies between organisations without VPN or point to point interfaces
Cloud VNA
Vendor neutral archive holding DICOM and associated documents, with retention policies by study type
Zero footprint viewer
HTML5 diagnostic and clinical viewer that runs in a browser with no client software
Patient upload portal
Lets patients or outside practices upload a disc or files directly, removing the CD import desk workflow
Identity reconciliation
Matching and merging of studies arriving with foreign patient identifiers and accession numbers
Clinical trials workflow
De identification and routing of studies to central reading facilities for research
API and HL7 integration
REST API plus HL7 order and result interfaces into the electronic health record
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Questions people ask
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Is Ambra Health still sold under its own name?
Yes. Intelerad still markets Ambra Health as a named product line, but the standalone website redirects to Intelerad, and support and contracting run through Intelerad.
Can Ambra replace our PACS?
For image exchange, archiving and clinical viewing, yes. For high volume diagnostic radiology reading it is generally deployed alongside a departmental PACS rather than instead of one.
Is pricing published?
No. It is quoted by annual study volume, stored capacity and the scope of exchange connections.
Does the viewer require software on referring physician machines?
No. The viewer is zero footprint HTML5, which is the main reason referring practices adopt it at all.
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