At Mint Medical, we understand data as a cornerstone for improving patient care and groundbreaking research. Our mission is clear: Leave No Data Behind. We are committed to ensuring every piece of information is captured, connected, and utilized to its fullest potential. In the world of medical imaging and radiology, data integrity and accessibility are critical to advancing patient care and clinical research.
Transforming Radiology Through Data Quality
Since 2010, Mint Medical has been developing mint Lesion, a leading software solution for the standardized and computer-assisted review of imaging and clinical data. mint Lesion ensures that generated data is complete, reproducible, and meets the highest quality requirements, which is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Why ‘Leave No Data Behind’ Matters
In healthcare, data tells a story – a story that is often fragmented across systems, formats, processes, and stakeholders. Our mission is to bridge these gaps, ensuring that radiologists and researchers have a complete and accurate dataset to make informed decisions.
With technologies like Event Sourcing, we ensure that no data point is overlooked: every change in data is recorded as an individual event, preserving the context and evolution of data over time. This approach guarantees data flexibility, fosters high scalability and supports real-time adjustments, making it an invaluable tool for clinical workflows.
For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we quickly implemented reporting templates without needing to modify the software binary code. Additionally, for updates to established guidelines, such as PI-RADS or TNM, the flexible data model allows for automatic adjustments and the calculation of new scores, ensuring that data remains usable and comparable.
This approach allows us to preserve the context and evolution of data over time, provide a clear and auditable record of every change, and enable seamless data integration across clinical workflows.
“Deriving valuable insights from medical data often comes with efforts and challenges. Mint Medical’s mantra of “leaving no data behind” addresses these challenges in a unique way: Through AI-powered knowledge models, we assist radiologists and researchers during the image assessment and annotation, creating a result data set with unmatched quality and reproducibility. The underlying semantic data models and data encodings further enable interoperability and leverage the full potential of the collected data.”
– Dr. Matthias Baumhauer, CEO and Co-Founder of Mint Medical
Empowering Research and Innovation
Data quality is not just about completeness; it’s also about ensuring data is standardized, consistent, and interoperable. With mint Lesion, we focus on structured reporting, creating semantic links between clinical assessments and imaging data. This ensures that information is both comprehensive (i.e., every observation is linked to its source) and actionable, meaning that structured data supports longitudinal analysis, AI-driven insights, and research initiatives. Moreover, the information remains contextual, as the semantic understanding is preserved. The data is captured in a standardized and clearly defined way, ensuring that different systems and users can interpret it correctly and consistently. Not leaving data behind also means that all necessary additional information is considered.
High-quality data is also the backbone of clinical trials, disease monitoring, and AI innovation. With mint Lesion, we help researchers consolidate real-world data, ensure consistency across multi-center trials, and drive advancements in radiomics, biomarkers, and predictive modeling.
“When I speak with users, what stands out to them the most is their complete trust in our data. This trust is why, in everything we do—whether it’s innovation or improvements—data integrity is always at the forefront. It’s something we never compromise on. We truly live by the principle of 'Leave No Data Behind’.”
– Husna Chhoangalia, Product Manager
An example of the successful use of mint Lesion for interdisciplinary scientific collaboration is its role within the Radiological Cooperative Network (RACOON), which is part of the Network University Medicine (NUM) and unites all 38 university hospitals in Germany. mint Lesion forms the backbone of the RACOON infrastructure, making all patient information documented on-site (e.g., lab values, treatment history, etc.) available to users via interfaces between the reporting platform and other local data sources (RIS, HIS, etc.).
The Future of Data in Healthcare
From the beginning, Mint Medical was driven by the idea that image reading and reporting software should do more than simply replace separate or loosely-coupled traditional tools. Operating in an interactive and dynamic dialogue with the user, mint Lesion provides assisted data capture through context-knowledge to support radiological workflows. The software’s AI-driven capabilities allow for meaningful, context-specific data to be operationalized and transformed into actionable insights to aid in improved patient outcomes.
“The future of healthcare depends on collaboration, and for us, that means creating tools that break down barriers between systems and disciplines. 'Leave No Data Behind' is not just a motto, it’s our commitment to improving communication across the healthcare ecosystem.”
– Steffen Rupp, Senior Director Healthcare Sales
As we look ahead, our commitment to "Leave No Data Behind" remains central to everything we do. Whether it’s ensuring data integrity in clinical workflows or unlocking insights for groundbreaking research, we are dedicated to empowering healthcare professionals with the tools they need to make a difference.
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