Our story
Fifteen years of DICOM infrastructure,
distilled into one API call.
Dicomly isn't a slick tool wired together overnight with AI to ride the trend — it has a story. It comes from a tech team building secure DICOM systems in production since 2010, including a platform acquired by Philips.
- 2010
FetView goes live: a cloud DICOM SaaS
First production deployment of FetView, an OBS/GYN reporting platform built on DICOM 3.0. Studies were received over the public Internet, routed to the cloud receiver via server firewall and IP rules.
- 2011
FetView DICOM Gateway
Shipped the FetView DICOM Gateway, an on-premise device deployed at the imaging site. It wrapped the DICOM stream in a VPN tunnel and forwarded it to the cloud receiver.
- 2013
Cloud storage
Built a sharded storage layer on CIFS/SMB (Samba), accessed by the imaging devices. TLS in transit, encryption at rest.
- 2014
Cloud storage decommissioned
Retired the CIFS/SMB (Samba) storage system. Samba over WAN was unreliable in production: connection timeouts, session loss, and high latency variability.
- 2015
A service fleet, TLS-secured throughout
FetView, now operated by Zeitgeist Health SE, ran as a fleet of independent services with DICOM connectivity TLS-secured end to end. The platform earned ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification.
- 2015
Fully containerized
Moved the entire service fleet to Docker, about a year after the Docker 1.0 release — an early production Docker adopter in healthcare, running stateful DICOM services in containers.
- 2016
Self-hosted AI: DICOM image categorisation
Built a TensorFlow Serving prototype to categorise OBS/GYN DICOM studies in FetView, running inference on in-house servers with no images sent to external services. Shelved after validation.
- 2017
First Kubernetes prototype
Migrated the FetView microservice fleet to Kubernetes. The service setup became declarative and repeatable, and recovery under load was predictable.
- 2018
No more hardware: pure TLS connectivity
Retired the on-premise FetView DICOM Gateway. The device was the largest source of operational burden and onboarding friction. Moved to pure TLS connectivity, no hardware at the imaging site.
- 2020
Going all-in on AWS
Migrated production infrastructure entirely to AWS: managed services, global regions, and auditable compliance. Removed the last self-managed server overhead.
- 2021
Acquired by Philips
Philips acquired Zeitgeist Health SE, the company behind FetView. Independent validation that the team understood medical imaging, security, and production healthcare software.
- Today
Dicomly — the connectivity API
Dicomly packages more than a decade of running DICOM over the Internet into a connectivity API. Receiving DICOM from a hospital is one API call.
The hard parts are done. What's left for you is a single API call.
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