# Alara Imaging

> Alara Imaging is a San Francisco healthcare technology company building a private compute platform for radiology. Its flagship product, the Alara Medical Imaging Gateway, is edge-orchestration software that sits inside a hospital and moves imaging data securely and bidirectionally between facilities and the cloud. Founded out of UCSF research, Alara serves as a CMS measure steward, giving health systems a HITRUST-certified, HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant way to calculate and report new radiology quality measures - including a CMS-endorsed measure to standardize CT radiation doses and reduce avoidable cancer risk.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Nate Mazonson (Co-Founder & CEO), Rebecca Smith-Bindman (Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer), Marc Kohli (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~34 employees
- **Products:** Alara Medical Imaging Gateway, CMS Measure Compliance, Cloud Enablement & Integration, Radiology Data Security
- **Notable:** Co-developed a CMS-endorsed quality measure to standardize CT radiation doses across US hospitals., Achieved HITRUST Certification (April 2024)., Passed SOC 2 audit without exceptions; HIPAA compliant.

## Products & services

- **Alara Medical Imaging Gateway** — Edge-orchestration software that runs as a local node inside a health system, enabling real-time, bidirectional data flow between facilities and the cloud for medical imaging workflows.
- **CMS Measure Compliance** — Securely and cost-effectively computes CMS quality-measure calculations - including the CT radiation dose measure - so hospitals can report to Medicare/Medicaid quality payment programs. Alara acts as a measure steward.
- **Cloud Enablement & Integration** — Health system integration and data management connecting DICOM and HL7 sources to cloud and AI workloads.
- **Radiology Data Security** — HITRUST-certified, HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant handling of medical imaging and radiology data, with computation kept at the edge.

## Achievements

- Co-developed a CMS-endorsed quality measure to standardize CT radiation doses across US hospitals.
- Achieved HITRUST Certification (April 2024).
- Passed SOC 2 audit without exceptions; HIPAA compliant.
- Serves as a CMS measure steward for new radiology measures.
- Secured partnerships with Bayer, NVIDIA, UCSF, Qaelum and the American College of Radiology.
- Recognized via SBIR/NIH-backed research portfolio for its imaging gateway.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Expanded executive team with Jill Spear (VP Operations, ex-Volpara Health) and David Mezzoprete (VP Business Development).
- **2024-12** — Announced an initiative with the American College of Radiology around radiology quality measures.
- **2024-04** — Achieved HITRUST Certification for its software.
- **2024-02** — Appointed Dr. Jay Bronner (former President & CMO of Radiology Partners) as Director.

## Links

- Website: https://alaragateway.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alara-imaging-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/alaracare

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