Phillip Jackson and Dr. Mark Baganz founded SecureRAD LLC seven years ago in the offices of Annapolis’ Chesapeake Medical Imaging.
 
The two noticed the need for a simple system for Chesapeake Medical’s technicians to use when managing MRI and PET scan images going in and out of the office. So Jackson and Baganz decided to create a system of their own.

SecureRAD has since gone global, providing picture archiving and communication systems, or PACS, to customers ranging from single practitioners to some of the largest public and private institutions in the world. Its customers include Toll Gate Radiology in Warwick, R.I., Veterans Affairs Health Care Administration in Palo Alto, Calif., Harvard University and Nuada Medical Specialist Imaging in London.

Since 2008, SecureRAD has installed systems in five countries and 20 states. In the past two years, the company has grown from one to three employees. The company will double its staff by 2013 through the launch of the company's new cloud-based service, SecureSHARE.

SecureSHARE allows healthcare facilities, physicians and patients to use a web portal to exchange medical images in an e-mail like fashion. So if a physician wants to send an image to another for consultation, that physician can use SecureSHARE to do it.
 
This year, the company plans to pull in sales from cloud-based storage and on-site image storage for small-to-medium practices.