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IBEX BH – Increasing access to osteoporosis diagnosis

Imagine a world where a patient receiving an X-ray for a primary fracture could be automatically screened for osteoporosis and put on immediate treatment to reduce the risk of secondary fractures. With IBEX BH, this is becoming a reality. IBEX BH opportunistically identifies patients at heightened risk of fracture by returning DXA-like outputs such as…

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Reducing costs and improving quality of life through earlier detection of osteoporosis

Health economics modelling shows that adoption of IBEX Trueview​® software for the early diagnosis of osteoporosis could save £9.2 million in costs and generate 1,650 QALYs over 20 years for a typical NHS trust. Tackling the Osteoporosis Crisis Using advanced physics modelling and AI methods, IBEX Trueview® turns standard X-rays into an opportunity for early diagnosis of osteoporosis, a disease that currently affects…

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Simulated Clinical Study Reveals Trueview Accurately Predicts Wrist Bone Health

IBEX recently completed a simulated clinical study, where a population of 30 wrist X-rays were synthetically generated for a population with bone health ranging from normal to severe osteoporosis. The IBEX Trueview Bone Health Classifier returns a measure of a patient’s bone health from a standard digital radiograph, without the need for any specialist hardware such as DXA. Synthetic…

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A New £4bn Market for DR Manufacturers

IBEX is pleased to help spread the word of poor bone health, and, most importantly, offer a solution for earlier and more widespread detection of this deadly disease. Osteoporosis: a £50bn Global Problem Osteoporosis may not have the same visibility as breast cancer, but it is a massive global healthcare problem with a financial cost…

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Tackling Osteoporosis – The Hidden Killer

A FRACTURE TSUNAMI… …is approaching and the resulting human and socioeconomic burden will have an enormous impact on all countries with ageing populations. Gaps and Solutions in Bone Health: A Global Framework for Improvement (http://worldosteoporosisday.org/thematic-report-2016) An estimated 3 million people in the UK have osteoporosis, with 500,000 fragility fractures a year costing the NHS more…

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IBEX TRADEMARKS REGISTERED

The UK patent office has granted trademark registration to IBEX for the IBEX goat device and the names IBEX and IBEX Trueview.  These cover all aspects of IBEX X‑ray technology (hardware and software) for medical, veterinary, NDT, industrial and other non-medical applications. This further establishes IBEX’s place in the global domain of X-ray imaging technology.