DataFirst Company Newsletter

MAY 2023

A NOTE FROM BEAU

Welcome to our first company newsletter. As we continue to grow our business, I see a dynamic organization tackling new challenges and opportunities every day. I am constantly amazed and proud of our team as we exceed customer expectations in delivering world-class solutions while developing and deploying industry-leading technology. With the complexity and magnitude of our projects always expanding, I know it's difficult to track and recognize all the new activity and movement within the organization.

To keep everybody up to date on our business, we will periodically publish the latest and most relevant information about the team, customers, technology, and industry. I would also like to solicit your input and ideas to ensure that we are communicating in a cadence and format that works for all.

I know our greatest asset at DataFirst is the team. The value and impact of your feedback is critical to our success. If you have ideas, issues or just want my opinion, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me directly. Thank you all for making our company the industry leader and my second family.

Beau

EMPLOYEE NEWS

Happy DataFirst Anniversary!!

Congratulations, and THANK YOU for all your hard work and dedication over the years.

Employee	Title	Years of Service
Phil Hicks	Project Manager	13
Mark Rose	Implementation Engineer	12
Nick Blume	Migration Engineer	10
Mackie Springer	Project Manager	10
Chuck Corogenes	Director of Business Development	10
Erick Holmstrom	Solutions Architect	8
Ken Page	Migration Engineer	7
Scott Welliver	Senior Solutions Architect	5
Scott Rulapaugh	Manager of Software Implementations	5
Brad Pate	Director of Professional Services	3
Richard Rooks	Senior Software Engineer, R&D	3

Welcome to our newest team members who joined us in 2023.

Tony Palmer	Executive Director of Engineering Services
Keith Betkowski	Senior Account Executive
Colleen Kinzley	Project Manager

Employee Spotlight - Meet Brad Kueter

As an eight-year veteran of DataFirst, Brad has been instrumental in the company’s growth. The R&D Quality Control and Verification Specialist wears many hats and continues to take on new responsibilities. He plays a key role in the development of Silverback® and works closely with customers from initial demos to configuration and testing during deployments.

Outside of work, Brad enjoys the great outdoors with a passion for fishing and hiking across the country. He faithfully roots for the hometown Tampa Bay Rays and hasn’t lost hope that the Minnesota Twins will return to the glory days. Brad lives with his family in Cocoa, Florida.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

To support our continued growth and add talent to our team, we have several opportunities available and posted to join DataFirst. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please send them one of the following links. If you have any questions, please reach out directly to Brad Pate for more information.

We have published these opportunities at the sites below. Please take a minute to review.

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DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

Christian and the team have spent significant time and effort creating new features and improving existing functionality within Silverback®. In May, the team is releasing Silverback® IV, encompassing months of hard work and a new look and feel. Here are a few new items and a snapshot of the new interface.

New Silverback® Installer and Update Platform

New Prefetch Menu and Relevancy UI

New Portal with:

System Monitoring
SMS Notifications & Email Notifications
Streamlined Menu and Options
Dark or Light Mode Option
MUCH more...

CUSTOMERS AND PROJECT - HIGHLIGHTS

New Migration Projects

McLaren Healthcare - Grand Blanc, MI (Fuji Project)

Scope - 30 million studies across 12 different sites; multiple sources to include tapes migrating to Fuji Synapse PACS and VNA. Phased site migration is scheduled for the next three years.

Team - Mark Hazlip, Chris Adams, David Allenson

Start Date - 4/15/2023

New Silverback® Initiatives

Envision Radiology - Silverback® in Texas Market

Scope - Building on the HL7 and Prefetch development led by Chris Johns, our SW enables them to market their services to other imaging centers/hospitals / referring physicians in the new region because they can quickly integrate our system to retrieve the priors housed on non-Envision systems.

Team - Scott Rulapaugh, Brad Kueter, and Chris Johns

Start Date - March 2023

Silverback® Business - New Agreements

Luminis HealthCare, MD

The contract was signed on April 7, 2023.
Scope: 2 locations with HA to handle advanced study distribution.
Deployment: Plan to go live in May.

MemorialCare, CA

The contract was sgned April 21^st.
Scope: SB Pro with a focus on SCO-BTO conversion workflow.
Deployment: Plan to go live at the end of June.

Other Activity

POC(Proof of Concept) with Everlight Radiology

This radiology group conducts operations across Australia and the UK. With significant growth in study volume, Everlight has experienced DICOM workflow issues that create bottlenecks across the network. They are looking to deploy Silverback® to ensure efficient and intelligent study distribution from hundreds of modalities and multiple locations while deploy our solution in a global architecture that is both on-prem and in the cloud.

Christian and the team have mapped a solution and approach to demonstrate our capabilities and fix their problems. The POC will start in June and last a couple of weeks.

EVENTS

HIMSS: April 18-20, Chicago, IL

The Health Information and Management Systems Society(HIMSS) brings 40K professionals from across the globe with a focus on IT technology and solutions. The conference brings in people from around the globe and features countless roundtables and keynotes from technologists, clinicians, and executives. This is our first time as exhibitors, and we had a great team representing DataFirst.

Activities - The team held more than 20 meetings and demos of our Silverback® platform. On Wednesday, they hosted a short happy hour at the end of the day for customers and partners.
Marketing - This campaign generated over 150,000 impressions through our website, social media, email, and onsite presence at HIMSS.
Team - The team was well-represented in sales, operations, and technical expertise. Tony P., Brad K., Scott R., Will, Tommy, and Beau were all present in Chicago at HIMSS.

UP NEXT

SIIM: June 14-16, Austin, TX

Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). This annual conference brings technologists from around the industry with a focus on education and new product development. This year will involve exhibits focusing on all imaging specialties and numerous presentations and information on AI, infrastructure, and standards. Our team on the ground will be composed of both sales and technologists. We will send photos of the booth and events throughout the conference.