Ikonopedia

Ikonopedia is a cloud-based breast health imaging and reporting platform designed for radiologists, technologists, and breast imaging practices. Founded by internationally recognized breast health radiologists — Dr. László Tabár, Dr. Tom Stavros, and Dr. Michael Vendrell — the platform delivers a complete, closed-loop system ensuring that women and men with potential breast cancer concerns receive timely, safe, and well-documented care from initial risk assessment through to final resolution.

Ikonopedia is built to serve the full care continuum: patients benefit from multilingual, streamlined intake and follow-up communications; radiologists gain intelligent reporting tools with built-in safety checks; IT teams benefit from a secure, fully managed cloud environment; and operations staff gain robust tracking and analytics capabilities across the entire patient population.

Patient-Centered Features

• Multilingual risk assessment questionnaire: Patients complete a detailed intake questionnaire covering personal and extended family history of breast and ovarian cancer and BRCA testing. The questionnaire is available in any patient language, with answers saved and translated into English. Result and reminder letters automatically default to the patient's chosen language.
• Efficient intake process: The questionnaire can be completed online prior to an appointment via a portal, or on-site using a tablet or any web-enabled device. First-visit completion typically takes three to six minutes; return visits take as little as 30 seconds, as prior answers auto-populate for the patient.
• Online Tyrer-Cuzick risk evaluation: Ikonopedia offers a publicly accessible online Tyrer-Cuzick Model Breast Cancer Risk evaluation tool to support patient education and empowerment, complementing but not replacing clinical consultation.
• Timely follow-through: The resolution manager uses lesion-specific patient tracking to correlate pathology results and resolve each area of concern, tracking pathology results directly into individual lesion locations.

Radiologist and Technologist Workflow Tools

• Automated report pre-population: Patient history automatically pre-populates the clinical section of the physician report. Breast density and previous lesion locations are carried forward to the next appropriate report, reducing manual data entry and improving continuity of care.
• Clinical warnings and safety alerts: The system provides radiologists with timely alerts regarding relevant patient and family history during the reporting process. Critical alerts prevent a radiologist from signing a report that conflicts with BI-RADS® guidelines or poses a patient safety risk. Soft alerts allow signing while flagging potential concerns. These checks completely replace the need for any manual QA process.
• Patented icon-based reporting: Teaching files and images from Drs. Tabár, Stavros, and Vendrell are used as patented visual icons to assist in diagnosis and streamline the reporting process.
• Customizable workflows: Ikonopedia supports a wide range of practice workflows, which are customized during implementation to maximize efficiency and safety for each individual practice.

IT Infrastructure and Security

• Cloud-based deployment via AWS: Ikonopedia is hosted on Amazon Web Services across multiple servers and availability zones, ensuring high availability and superior performance with no downtime concerns. Customers are always on the latest version without costly upgrade fees or processes.
• Seamless integrations: The platform integrates fully with Radiology Information Systems (RIS), Picture Archive and Communications Systems (PACS), and enterprise patient portals. Additional integrations with artificial intelligence triage and breast density applications provide automated findings, alerts, and locations that populate directly within Ikonopedia.
• Comprehensive security: All protected health information (PHI) is fully encrypted and stored in a separate database for each customer to isolate potential threats. Ikonopedia follows HIPAA guidelines and industry best practices, employs next-generation security tools, and conducts SOC 2 audits to validate security controls. The company manages all backups, HIPAA compliance, internet security, upgrades, and customer support.

Operational Tracking and Follow-Up Management

• Closed-loop lesion tracking: Ikonopedia is designed as a closed-loop system to track every lesion and area of concern through to complete resolution. There is no limit to the number of lesion-specific findings that can be added, and each finding is automatically created and tracked, improving patient safety and eliminating manual processes.
• Robust patient tracking: Patients are tracked annually for routine exams as well as for individual appointments in between. When a radiologist reports specific findings, recommendations are automated, and every lesion is tracked through the reporting process until resolution.
• Dynamic patient communications: Result and reminder letters are generated dynamically and uniquely for each patient in their preferred language, based on physician selections in the report. Letters can also be sent to the customer RIS for additional tracking or delivery via patient portals.
• Follow-up Manager: Individual findings are managed through customer-defined, multi-protocol steps for resolution. The Follow-up Manager assists staff in contacting patients to schedule appointments, follow up on pathology, or engage referring physicians. Protocol steps can include multiple letters and phone call reminders to ensure compliance and complete communication.

Analytics and Reporting Capabilities

• Automated MQSA audits: Ikonopedia automates annual MQSA audits, providing immediate access to technologist counts, radiologist audits, breast screening audits, and many other reports.
• Ikonopedia Insight Analytics: The platform includes the Insight Analytics tool, which provides comprehensive end-to-end reporting and deep data mining capabilities across any data point. Analytics help identify cancer types, breast tissue density, compliance rates, and high-risk indicators by age group to support population health management.
• Enterprise dashboards: Ikonopedia Insight draws on patient intake information, imaging data, and clinical risk assessments to provide end-to-end visualization of patient care from screening through treatment and follow-up, supporting both practice efficiency and better patient outcomes.
• Research support: Ikonopedia's rich data and simplified reporting capabilities have supported multiple organizations in research, learning, optimization, and advancing best practices in breast imaging.

Ikonopedia maintains a comprehensive HIPAA compliance program covering the protection, use, and disclosure of PHI, business associate agreements, employee training, and procedures for individual access and correction of personal information. The platform is a fully managed SaaS solution, offering lower total cost of ownership compared to server-based alternatives, with all infrastructure, security, and upgrades handled by Ikonopedia.