A secure solution for capturing, storing, and sharing intestinal ultrasound (IUS) data.

Introducing Bridge

IUS generates large cine loops, often across extensive bowel segments in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, creating datasets that are difficult to store, de-identify, and share securely. Manual workflows are slow, error-prone, and create bottlenecks for clinicians, trial sites, and educators.

Bridge is designed specifically for these challenges.

Bridge provides a suite of logistical tools for IUS data de-identification, calibration, optimisation, transmission and storage, making it ideal for clinical trials, routine clinical practice and education.

Why Bridge?

Purpose-built for IUS
Faster workflows
Secure & compliant

Bridge securely connects directly to your ultrasound system

Local Entrolytics PACS

Review, organise, calibrate, and annotate IUS studies without data ever leaving your site.

Intuitive de-identification

Quickly and easily redact sensitive data, update DICOM headers, and block patient identifiers.

Seamless data transmission

Securely export to CROs and Entrolytics.

Optimised for large cine loops

Robust handling of the extensive datasets generated in Crohn’s disease and UC.

Structured organisation

Searchable archive with anonymised IDs for easy recall during follow-up or teaching.

Training support and site activation

Rapidly share scans with experts for review and feedback to accelerate learning and site setup.

Compliance

GDPR/HIPAA compliant workflow with full site control over what leaves your system.

Fully audited chain of custody for GCP compliant integration where necessary

Who is Bridge for?

Practitoners

Store IUS scans securely and track patient progress over time with GI-specific measurement tools and side-by-side longitudinal review on Entrolytics.

Clinical trial sites

Redact, rename, and securely transmit uncompressed trial data with confidence.

Educators and students

Easily de-identify and share scans of any size to support training and collaboration. Create teaching sets, annotate scans, and provide structured feedback.

How does Bridge work?

Acquire

Conduct your IUS study as usual on your ultrasound system.

Ingest

Scans are routed directly to Bridge via secure hardware connected to your ultrasound system.

Review

On Bridge, a local version of Entrolytics allows you to review, organise, and annotate your IUS data. Sensitive data is redacted, and DICOM headers are updated to match trial or clinical requirements.

Upload

De-identified scans can be securely transmitted to CROs or Entrolytics.

View

Studies can be accessed within Entrolytics for longitudinal comparison, training review, or collaborative feedback.

Case study Enabling Seamless IUS Data Submission for Clinical Trials

Enabling Seamless IUS Data Submission for Clinical Trials

The Challenge:

A leading site in a multicentre IBD clinical trial using intestinal ultrasound (IUS) faced a familiar bottleneck: exporting IUS data for the CRO.

Their existing PACS setup was not connected to the ultrasound machine, and manually de-identifying DICOM files created risk, delays, and inconsistent naming leading to rejections by the CRO.

The Solution: Bridge

To streamline their imaging workflow, they deployed Bridge for de-identification, and structured data transfer.

Using Bridge, the clinical team could:

Automatically route IUS series from the scanner to the Bridge Box

Perform redaction and update DICOM headers while preserving calibration & automatically checking for errors or deviances from the imaging guidelines.

Data export to USB for upload to sponsors portal

Case study Enhancing Ultrasound Training for Clinicians Using Bridge

Enhancing Ultrasound Training for Clinicians Using Bridge

The Challenge:

A university hospital with an established gastroenterology fellowship recently expanded its curriculum to include IUS training. However, instructors faced several barriers where the GI-led IUS program ran outside of Radiology:

Scattered scans: No central repository for storage or reviewing of trainees’ scans.

Data privacy risks: Scans used in teaching often contained patient identifiers which is fine for in-hospital use but for external support risked data privacy.

Limited feedback loop: Trainers couldn’t efficiently review and annotate trainee scans for educational feedback.

No easy sharing: Collaborating with other institutions required time-consuming, manual de-identification processes.

The Solution: Bridge

Bridge’s secure hardware automatically routed scans from the ultrasound system via the Bridge Box to Entrolytics.

Effortless de-identification: With built-in redaction tools, trainees could remove patient identifiers.

Structured organisation: All de-identified scans were catalogued by trainee and date, making it easy for supervisors to track progress and curate teaching sets.

Collaborative review: Educators annotated scans directly in Entrolytics, providing visual feedback.

Case study Enhancing Clinical Ultrasound Workflow with Bridge

Enhancing Clinical Ultrasound Workflow with Bridge

The Challenge:

A small stand-alone gastroenterology clinic with IUS incorporated in routine care for IBD wanted to store and recall IUS for follow up.

A conventional PACS solution was both too broad (for all imaging modalities) and also sub-optimal for the unique considerations around IUS (namely size of the data).

IUS scanners not connected to PACS: no easy way to keep track of previous scans to review for comparison during follow-up visits.

Limited collaboration: When clinicians wanted input from colleagues, sharing scans was slow and insecure.

The Solution: Bridge

To improve IUS integration into clinical workflows, the clinic implemented Bridge enabling the team to:

Automatically store scans: IUS images were securely routed from the ultrasound machine via Bridge Box to Local Entrolytics, without needing manual export or conversion.

Maintain a central record: All scans were stored in an organised, searchable archive tied to anonymised patient IDs and annotated with bowel wall thickness measurements.

Enable peer review: Clinicians could easily share de-identified studies with colleagues within the practice or external experts for second opinions or review while enabling training in-house.

Bridge FAQs

Does Bridge send PII out of the institution?

No, it is designed to assist investigators in safely and quickly removing PII before data leaves site and minimise study rejection by CRO’s.

Does Bridge need external internet connection?

No, Bridge can work fully offline but we do recommend enabling telemetry to enable its support.

Can Bridge handle large IUS file sizes?

Yes, it is designed to ingest any IUS data and provides a rich toolset to enable post processing in line with scan requirements.

Can we not use our existing PACS?

Sometimes, but many sites are not PACS connected and downsampling/compression make data unacceptable for the study.

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