Connect imaging systems across hospitals. Share studies intelligently. Accelerate diagnostics. One unified, vendor-neutral platform.
The Growing Crisis
Radiology networks worldwide face a critical breaking point — an aging workforce, rising demand, and systemic overload are compromising patient outcomes.
"16 of 27 EU member states fall below the average of 127 radiologists per million. 45% of Europe's radiologists are over 51, with 19% set to retire within five years — yet imaging demand is projected to surge 70% by 2030."
"The UK faces a 29% shortfall in radiology consultants, projected to reach 39% by 2029. CT and MRI demand grew 8% in 2024 while the workforce grew only 4.2% — the gap is widening every year."
"Diagnostic error rates increase by 226% when radiologists read 67–90 studies per shift versus 19–26. Meanwhile, 51% of radiologists report clinical burnout — a direct threat to patient safety."
"In 2024, 976,000 imaging scans in England breached the one-month reporting target — a 28% increase year-on-year. Reporting backlogs exceed 7 days in a third of European hospitals."
Sources: EU-REST / European Commission Census · PubMed Central (PMC) · Royal College of Radiologists 2024 Workforce Census · American College of Radiology · Medscape Physician Burnout Report 2024 · NHS England Diagnostic Data
Radiologist Experience
HubNex operates inside your existing ecosystem. Studies appear on your worklist. You read. Reports deliver themselves. You never leave your PACS.
A teleradiology request from a partner hospital appears directly in your RIS — automatically routed, prioritised, and labelled. No VPN. No portal login. No phone call.
Relevant historical studies from other institutions are already surfaced before you open the case — queried, fetched, and linked automatically. No chasing down CDs or calling IT.
AI annotations, bounding boxes, and measurements are baked directly into the DICOM — rendered as Secondary Captures readable in any viewer. Clinical history and labs are pre-populated into your dictation software.
Open the study in the same viewer you use every day. No retraining. No new hanging protocols to configure. Subspecialty routing means you only see cases matched to your expertise.
Dictate and sign as normal. HubNex intercepts the HL7 ORU, routes the finalised report back to the requesting hospital's EMR automatically. The loop closes without you lifting a finger.
The Platform
A vendor-neutral ecosystem that enhances collaboration, accelerates workflows, and supports better patient outcomes.
DICOM Viewer
Connect imaging across every hospital in your network. Prior exams are immediately accessible, wherever they're stored — eliminating delays and duplicated scans.
Dr. Maes is typing…
Secure, seamless sharing for second reads, joint diagnostics, and multidisciplinary teamwork across sites — as if everyone is in the same reading room.
Intelligently distribute cases across your radiologist network based on subspecialty, urgency, capacity, and modality — reducing burnout and improving turnaround.
Define rules once — studies are automatically triaged, routed, and escalated without manual intervention. Reduce administrative overhead on every case.
Built for healthcare from the ground up. End-to-end encryption, role-based access control, immutable audit logs — meeting GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 requirements.
When local capacity runs thin, tap into a verified network of subspecialists. Connect to the right expert for second reads, urgent cases, or overflow reporting.
HubNex layers over your existing infrastructure. No forklift upgrades, no data migration, no clinical disruption — just an immediate connectivity layer that works from day one.
The Edge Gateway deploys on-premise as a VM and communicates using 100% outbound HTTPS/443 only. No inbound firewall rules. No VPN tunnels. No network reconfiguration required — ever.
HubNex auto-detects critical findings at sign-off and immediately dispatches SMS and pager alerts to the ordering physician. A mandatory acknowledgement click seals the FDA Part 11 audit trail.
HubNex embeds a secure, tokenized chat URL directly into the DICOM Study Description and HL7 OBX segment. One click in your PACS opens a web chat locked to the originating technologist and study. No app. No login.
Intelligent Routing
Not every study is the same. HubNex routes with clinical awareness — urgency, modality, compliance, and patient history all factor into every dispatch decision.
When a study is routed to the reading radiologist's PACS, HubNex automatically queries the originating hospital's archive and forwards relevant prior exams — no manual retrieval required.
Urgent studies are routed immediately to the nearest available radiologist. If no acknowledgement is received within 10 minutes, HubNex automatically escalates to the next available reader.
HubNex enforces routing rules at the study dispatch layer — a study never reaches a site that doesn't meet the required clinical or regulatory criteria for that modality.
From install to reporting — up and running in under 30 minutes.
Install our lightweight gateway on-premise. Connects read-only to your PACS/RIS via DICOM/HL7.
Set intelligent rules: prioritize by subspecialty, urgency, modality, or AI-driven triage.
Studies flow encrypted between approved sites. No PHI stored in the cloud. Full audit trail.
Radiologists read using their own viewers. Analytics dashboard tracks TAT, volumes, and efficiency.
Join our pilot program or reach out to learn more.
FAQ
Everything you need to know about integrating HubNex into your radiology network.
Still have questions?
Talk to our team →HubNex is a cloud-edge platform that securely connects hospitals' PACS/RIS systems, enabling intelligent sharing of imaging studies based on workload, subspecialty, and urgency. It's ideal for multi-site health networks, radiology departments, imaging centres, and referring physicians.
HubNex is a technology layer — not a reading service. You retain full control over your data and radiologists. HubNex simply enables secure, intelligent study sharing across your network — you choose who reads what, and when.
No. HubNex overlays your existing PACS/RIS systems via an on-premise Edge Gateway that integrates through standard DICOM/HL7 protocols — enhancing workflows without requiring any system replacement or data migration.
Deploy the lightweight Edge Gateway (software or VM) on-premise. It connects read-only to your PACS/RIS via DICOM/HL7, extracts metadata, and securely communicates with the HubNex cloud. No PACS replacement is needed and the full deployment takes under 30 minutes.
Yes. HubNex is fully vendor-neutral and compatible with all major PACS systems. In low-bandwidth situations, the Edge Gateway automatically buffers and queues study transfers, then resumes seamlessly once connectivity is restored.
HubNex uses a hybrid cloud-edge architecture. The Edge Gateway runs entirely on-premise within your own datacentre, handling all DICOM/HL7 communication. Orchestration metadata passes through HubNex's ISO 27001-certified cloud — but imaging data itself never leaves your network unless you explicitly configure shared-study transfers to other approved sites.
Most single-site deployments are live within 30 minutes of Edge Gateway installation. A multi-site network rollout — including routing configuration, RBAC setup, and user training — typically completes in 2 to 5 business days. We assign a dedicated implementation engineer to every deployment.
Yes. HubNex uses end-to-end encryption (TLS 1.3), role-based access control, immutable audit logging, and optional pseudonymization. No PHI is persistently stored in the cloud — studies are transferred transiently and remain within your governed infrastructure.
Access is governed by granular, hospital-configured roles. Only authorized users at designated sites can view, assign, or report on studies. Every action generates an immutable, timestamped audit log that your compliance team can export at any time.
Patient imaging data (DICOM files) never leaves your on-premise infrastructure. HubNex's cloud layer handles only metadata and routing instructions — not PHI. For European customers, this architecture fully satisfies GDPR data residency requirements. For US customers requiring HIPAA BAA, we provide a signed Business Associate Agreement as standard.
Yes. HubNex's cloud infrastructure is ISO 27001 certified. Our architecture is designed to support NIS2 compliance for healthcare operators of essential services — including network segmentation, incident response procedures, and supply-chain security assessments. We provide a full compliance documentation pack on request.
Routing rules let you prioritize by modality, subspecialty (neuro, cardiac, paediatrics), urgency codes, or AI-driven triage scores. If a radiologist is unavailable or at capacity, cases auto-reassign to the next-best available expert within your network.
No. HubNex overlays existing workflows transparently. Radiologists and clinicians continue using their familiar viewers and reporting tools — HubNex orchestrates study movement and routing silently in the background without any new UX to learn.
HubNex provides rule-based routing out of the box (modality, urgency code, subspecialty, time-of-day). Optional AI triage integration allows external AI screening tools to inject urgency signals — for example, escalating a suspected PE or stroke study to the top of the worklist automatically. HubNex acts as the orchestration layer; clinical AI models are plugged in via our open API.
Yes. Referring clinicians can be granted a limited-access role that allows them to track study status, receive report notifications, and download finalised reports — without access to routing controls or administrative functions. Access is managed by your site administrator and scoped per clinician.
Live dashboards show study flow, turnaround times, workload distribution by radiologist, and SLA-breach alerts. Analytics track volume trends, team efficiency, and gateway performance — all exportable for data-driven optimization and board reporting.
All plans include 24/7 monitoring of the Edge Gateway with automated alerts. Standard support is business-hours with a 4-hour response SLA. Enterprise plans include 24/7 dedicated support with a 1-hour critical-incident SLA and a named customer success manager. Uptime SLA is 99.9% for the cloud orchestration layer.
HubNex is priced on a per-site subscription model, making costs predictable regardless of study volume. Network-wide enterprise agreements are available for health systems connecting five or more sites and include volume discounts. All pricing is bespoke — contact us for a quote tailored to your network size and workflow complexity.
Contact Us
Whether you're a healthcare provider, radiology group, or IT partner — our team is here to help you explore how HubNex can transform your imaging workflow.
Gent, Belgium
(+32) 486 036 288
(+32) 484 367 188
contact@HubNex.net
Gent, Belgium
(+32) 486 036 288
(+32) 484 367 188
contact@HubNex.net