Beagle: The SaMD Integration Solution

Beagle is our middleware solution that provides secure, standardised, and scalable environments for hospitals to deploy and monitor Software as a Medical Devices.

Beagle allows us to bring together SaMD vendors with healthcare providers, removing the technical integration pain of vendors and addressing organisational barriers to adoption.

The Software as a Medical Device landscape extends far beyond clinical AI tools, and Beagle handles the integration and deployment of all types of SaMD, offering hospitals a single point of contact for the entire sector.

What It Does

  • Middleware Solution

    Beagle hosts and facilitates the deployment of various SaMD tools developed by different vendors. This middleware approach helps hospitals manage the complexity of integrating multiple solutions from different sources.

  • Integration and Deployment

    Beagle simplifies the process of implementing SaMDs by providing a consistent, scalable environment where these tools can be deployed and managed. It reduces the friction between developers and healthcare providers, who often face significant challenges in getting these technologies into clinical use.

  • Addressing IT and Organisational Blockers

    One of Beagle's main value propositions is its ability to directly address the operational concerns of hospital IT departments and management. By partnering with established and trusted technology providers like Red Hat and IBM, Beagle enhances trust and eases concerns about reliability, security, scalability, and longevity.

  • Standards and Compliance

    We are committed to providing healthcare institutions with access to best-in-class SaMD products, ensuring that all tools on the platform meet a high standard and work seamlessly together.  We assess vendors to ensure sustainable, regulatory compliant engineering practices, reducing the burden on hospitals to quality assure and integrate multiple AI solutions independently.

  • Scalability and Flexibility

    Beagle is built on Red Hat OpenShift, which allows it to be deployed across various environments, including on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures. This flexibility means that Beagle can be tailored to the specific needs and resources of different healthcare providers, whether they are small clinics or large hospital networks.

  • Supporting the AI Lifecycle

    Beagle facilitates the entire lifecycle of AI tools in a clinical setting—from training on relevant datasets to deployment, ongoing use, and eventual updates or replacement. This end-to-end support is crucial for maintaining the effectiveness and relevance of AI tools as medical technologies and needs evolve.

Technologies

  • Red Hat OpenShift® is a comprehensive application platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications, including AI-enabled apps, at scale.

  • Enlitic is a healthcare data management company using AI to expand capacity and improve clinical workflows in radiology and enterprise wide.

Beagle is not an SaMD itself, but rather a Medical Device Data System (MDDS).  It is a tool that transfers, stores, and displays medical data without making medical decisions, meaning it is free to operate without strict regulatory oversight.