Education

Your Medical Imaging Education Platform

High-quality education without compromising your time.Teach radiology with professional tools in a secure, collaborative environment.

 

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Radiology educators face considerable challenges when attempting to deliver world-class, effective education.

Resources and time with staff are typically critical limiting factors. The absence of a streamlined educational process further complicates their efforts.

Collective Minds Education provides a cutting-edge platform for complete radiology training, saving time and resources.

Transform Medical Imaging Education with Collective Minds

  • Profesional tools: Clinical-Grade DICOM viewer.
  • Share data for your course quickly and easily.
  • Save time reusing your previous classes and questions.
  • Exam and quiz module.
  • Interactive communication channels.
  • Easy live or asynchronous teaching sessions.
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  • It's not complicated
  • It works fast
  • It's as easy to work as an ordinary workstation"
Dr. Vibeke Berg Løgager

Dr. Vibeke Berg Løgager
Herlev University Hospital

Clinical-Grade DICOM viewer

An integrated clinical grade DICOM viewer ensures that educators and learners have access to professional high
quality imaging tools: presenter and measurement tools, PET-CT, Mr and NM Fusion, Histogram, Calibration line, MPR, CINE, Align and lock, sync Windowing and many more.

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Exam and quiz module

Enhance your teaching by adding quizzes or examinations. By linking cases to customizable questionnaires you have built a self assessment with auto-correction or an examination where you as a teacher will review the results.

Interactive communication channels

Interactive communication channels
within the platform allows learners to ask
questions, discuss cases, fostering a global
community of collaborative learning.

Interactive channels
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Share data for your course quicker and easier

Connect your hospital or local computer using CM Connect. This way you can share any DICOM studies automatically. Before the data is transferred from your local environment, it is de-identified and pseudonymized. This allows your preparation to be focus/topic driven.

Create Your Radiology Seminar

Embedded DICOM Viewer: Seamlessly view and interact with medical images directly in your seminar.
Hide and Show Case Details: Control the visibility of case details to enhance learning and engagement.
Password-Protected Seminars: Ensure your seminar's privacy and security with robust password protection.

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Easy live or asynchronous teaching sessions

You can organize any size of events, live, online or hybrid.  Collective Minds Education has a record of over 1.000 participants on the same case at the same time.

+200

Institutions connected directly to Collective Minds.

+150

Visualization tools for teaching.

+1 000

Participants reviewing a case simultaneously.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to do to use Collective Minds Education platform in my Institution?
Your Institution needs to have an agreement with Collective Minds; after that, we will be ready to help you.
What can I do with cases to enhance my teaching once uploaded?

Once cases are uploaded, you can leverage them for:

  • Case collection – Build curated libraries of teaching cases.
  • Case discussions – Facilitate interactive group discussions and reviews.
  • Exams and quizzes – Design assessments to test students' knowledge.
  • Seminars – Conduct teaching sessions with tools to hide/show diagnoses or include polls.
What are the financial options available for purchasing and maintaining your platform?

The most common financial option is a subscription based model, i.e a monthly cost for the platform access. Payments can be done on a yearly, quarterly or monthly basis.
A monthly fee is a better option for ad hoc or individual educational events. Contact sales@cmrad.com for more information.

Do you offer flexible pricing plans based on our usage needs and budget constraints?

Yes, the pricing is based on the customer needs. We offer various tiers of pricing based on the scope. Reach out to sales@cmrad.com for more details regarding pricing options.

How does the Education platform work?
Check our extensive help guide:  https://help.cmrad.com/clinical-education
How do I upload a case?
You can learn how to post a case in this video
How do share my content?
You can share your content in multiple secure ways:

Email and Invite to Group Feature: Share your content in a closed and private environment.
Shared Collections or Playlists: Generate a password-protected link to share specific cases.
Shared Seminars: Use seminar features that allow you to hide/show diagnoses and run live polls, accessible via a password-protected link
Are there customizable privacy settings to control access to sensitive information?

Groups control access to your imaging data. As a group owner, you have full control over who is provided access either as a member, with limited access, or as another group owner. As new cases with imaging data enters the group, you can control how the group notifies its members about the changes.

Are there additional costs for scaling our usage or adding more users?

The pricing follows the price plan agreed with you upon initial signatures. If usage increases beyond the initial agreement, a review of your subsciption will be undertaken in line with the tiers in our pricing table.

How does your platform handle collaboration among users and teams?

You can configure permissions for each project member, allowing you to grant access to shared tasks or make results visible to project members. Invitation to a project can be done directly by entering an email address and name.

Are there tools for real-time collaboration such as video conferencing or shared document editing?
Collective Minds education is compatible with any video conferencing and screen sharing external solutions.
What integration options do you offer?

CMRAD can receive cases sent from the hospital image archive (PACS).

Integrate your learning management system (LMS) for user provisioning, single sign on and specific access controls. 

We offer a robust API for other customized integrations.

Is your platform compatible with our existing IT infrastructure and software?
CMRAD Connect is compatible with all PACS systems as long as they can add another destination/node.

CMRAD platform is cloud-based and accessible from anywhere as long as you are connected to the internet.
How easy is it to migrate our current data and workflows onto your platform?

There are three methods available for uploading data into CMRAD:

1. CMConnect: This option allows you to push cases directly from your PACS system.

2. Web Upload: Upload cases individually and directly into the pipeline when they are stored locally on your computer.

3. Bulk Transfer via sFTP: As a premium service, we can handle the ingestion of your data into the platform through bulk transfer.

Existing workflows will need to build the pipeline directly within the system.

What level of technical support do you provide, and what are the response times?
The deployment engineers will assist you with the installation of CMRAD Connect. The Customer Success team will support you with project configurations and platform features, tailored to the specifics of your agreement. Our office hours are Monday through Friday, from 9 AM to 5 PM. Collective Minds Service Level Agreement.
Are there training resources or support materials available to help onboard our team?
Yes, customer success will educate super users on the platform. We have help articles here:
help.cmrad.com
How frequently do you update your platform, and how do you handle feature requests?
Our platform undergoes regular updates, including major feature releases several times a year and ongoing critical patches and security enhancements. We prioritize feature requests based on a structured process that considers client feedback, market trends, and technical feasibility. Feature requests are evaluated based on their potential impact and alignment with our roadmap. We keep clients informed about major updates and new features through our release announcements and newsletters.
Can we customize the platform to meet specific institutional or departmental needs?
The platform itself allows complex and customised configurations. New customised features can be developed if stated in the agreement. The cost and the timeline depend on the complexity of the feature.
How do you ensure the long-term reliability and sustainability of your platform?
We prioritize platform reliability and sustainability through a robust, multi-layered approach. Our scalable cloud infrastructure enables dynamic resource allocation. Automated monitoring and alerting systems proactively identify and mitigate potential issues. Regular code and infrastructure reviews, adherence to industry best practices, and rigorous testing and internal controls ensure platform stability. Our comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plan safeguards data integrity and platform resilience.
How does your platform comply with the GDPR or other laws and regulations regarding data protection and privacy?

Collective Minds is designed to empower hospitals, medical societies, and institutions by providing a secure and compliant platform for data sharing in clinical education and training. We address the critical challenges of safeguarding patient privacy and ensuring data protection while enabling collaboration. Rooted in privacy by design, our platform offers a secure processing environment that adheres to the highest privacy standards, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

As a dedicated Data Processor, we manage data strictly on behalf of institutions delivering clinical education and training, ensuring it is used only for authorized educational purposes and under their explicit instructions. Our platform incorporates a comprehensive framework of legal commitments, technical controls, and operational safeguards to maintain a trusted and compliant environment for data processing.

Our innovative solution, CM Connect (link), ensures that data is encrypted and pseudonymized within the hospital or institution before it is shared with our cloud. This guarantees that personal data remains protected during transfer and processing while aligning with local and EU-level privacy requirements. Once the data enters our secure cloud environment, it benefits from uniform, robust security measures that facilitate further processing in a legally compliant and ethically sound manner.

With Collective Minds, you can confidently collaborate and share data for clinical education and training projects while safeguarding patient privacy and personal data protection at every step.

What measures do you have in place to protect our data and intellectual property?

Before collaborating with Collective Minds, your institution must sign a Master Services Agreement (MSA) and a Data Processing Agreement (DPA). These agreements are essential to establish a secure and legally compliant framework that enables the delivery of our services in full alignment with all regulatory requirements.

This framework ensures that your institution retains full ownership and control of its data. Collective Minds operates as a Data Processor, managing data strictly according to your instructions. This commitment extends beyond personal data to include any materials, knowledge, or intellectual property generated, guaranteeing your ownership of all training content, outputs, and resources. Therefore, unless agreed otherwise with Collective Minds, you will own all the educational content you create.

Collective Minds is designed to address the complexities of managing data for clinical education and training initiatives. We process data exclusively on your behalf without determining its purpose or influencing its use, ensuring that all activities remain aligned with your educational objectives and regulatory requirements.

Can you provide details on where our data will be stored and how it will be secured?
The Platform operates on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Germany GmbH servers located in Frankfurt, ensuring compliance with strict legal and data sovereignty requirements, including GDPR, while maintaining top-tier performance and IT security.
AWS was chosen for its unmatched security, scalability, and global data availability, essential for a multinational clinical data sharing platform. It holds globally recognized certifications, including ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1/2/3, NIS2, GDPR, and HIPAA, ensuring robust security and data protection practices.

In Frankfurt, AWS employs server replicability across multiple Availability Zones, ensuring data remains secure and accessible even in the event of server failure. The platform is also designed to meet local legal requirements worldwide (e.g., Australia, Canada, India, the US, and Europe) while maintaining consistent, stringent compliance standards across the global platform.

Our infrastructure, which includes encryption, firewalls, and continuous monitoring, ensures high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance, making it ideal for secure healthcare collaboration.

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