Clinician App and Cloud Platform for a Portable Ultrasound Scanner

To work at the bedside, a portable probe needed the hospital imaging workflow on a single tablet

Our client designs portable ultrasound scanners: compact probes that connect to a tablet and bring imaging to the bedside, the ambulance, the rural clinic, and the GP’s office. The hardware was ready for the places where cart-based systems can’t go.

Portability changes who scans and where. Operators are often not senior sonographers, studies happen far from radiology, and the image itself is only half the job. A clinician has to measure it, store it in the right patient record, and, when in doubt, get an expert to look at it quickly.

That meant the product needed six capabilities working as one:

• Live scanning
• Image processing
• Clinical measurements
• DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) export to the hospital PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System)
• Secure cloud storage of studies
• Remote access for a second opinion.

If these live in separate tools, every hand-off is a chance to lose a study or attach it to the wrong patient.

The client also wanted to help less experienced operators capture diagnostic-quality images. Guidance had to work in the field, including where connectivity is weak or absent, so it could not depend on a round trip to the cloud.

The client wanted one team to build all of the clinician-facing software, from the tablet app to the cloud platform and the AI, and brought in Yalantis to do it.

A tablet clinician app connected to a cloud study platform, with DICOM/PACS export, remote second-opinion access, and AI that runs on the device

We built everything around one workflow that runs from the first scan to the remote expert’s sign-off. Clinicians stay in the same app throughout and enter patient data once.