Early stage · Gathering interest
Consistent, high-quality echo across your whole department.
Quality assurance, peer review and training feedback for the people who acquire and analyse echocardiograms, being built with cardiac physiologists.
We’re building this with echo professionals. Register your interest to shape it.
Quality is hard to see across a department
Most departments already care about quality. The difficulty is seeing it consistently, and finding the time to act on it.
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Practice varies between practitioners
Image acquisition and analysis differ from one practitioner to the next, even within the same team working to the same protocol.
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Peer review and audit are manual
Choosing studies, re-reviewing them and recording outcomes is done by hand, and it competes with a full list for time.
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Trainee feedback is inconsistent
The feedback a trainee gets often depends on who reviews their scans and when, rather than on a shared standard.
What we’re exploring
These are the areas we are exploring with echo professionals. None of them is a finished feature, and what we build will depend on what departments tell us they need.
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Image quality feedback per standard view
Structured feedback on the technical quality of each standard view, so practitioners can see where their acquisition is strong and where to focus.
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Measurement consistency across the team
A clearer picture of how measurement practice compares across practitioners, to support shared technique and targeted training.
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Structured peer review sampling
Fair, repeatable selection of studies for peer review, with a consistent way to record and discuss the outcome.
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Trainee feedback and portfolio support
Consistent, recorded feedback for trainees, and an easier way to gather evidence of progress, giving trainees and supervisors confidence in logbook evidence.
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Evidence for quality and accreditation work
Summaries that support your department’s quality and accreditation work, without assembling spreadsheets by hand.
EchoAssure is intended for quality improvement, peer review, audit and training. It is not a diagnostic tool and is not intended to inform the care of individual patients.
Privacy by design
Echo data is sensitive, and so is feedback about people’s work. We are designing EchoAssure around both from the start.
- Patient data stays in the department
- We are designing EchoAssure so that patient-identifiable data does not need to leave your department.
- Quality without patient identity
- Assessing the quality of a study does not need to know who the patient is, so the design does not ask for it.
- Designed for UK GDPR and EU GDPR
- Designed from the outset for data protection law in the UK and Ireland.
- Development, not surveillance
- Transparent with staff about what is recorded and why. The focus is professional development and shared standards, not monitoring individuals.
Who’s behind it
EchoAssure is built by a senior echo professional and a technology leader who has built clinical reporting software. It is a venture of C.M Software Solutions Ltd in Northern Ireland.
Clinical lead
Our clinical lead, a practising cardiac clinical physiologist at chief level, is an accredited echocardiographer with more than 15 years’ experience in public and private echo departments across the UK and Ireland.
They make sure what we build reflects how echo departments actually work.
Technology lead
Our technology lead is platform lead and AI transformation lead at an international software company whose platform is used by thousands of people around the world, and has helped build several start-ups, including clinical reporting software.
Through their own consultancy, they have helped dozens of established small and medium-sized businesses work more efficiently and scale.
Register your interest
Tell us a little about you and your department. We’ll use it to decide what to build first, and we’ll contact you about early conversations and pilots.
It takes about a minute. Fields marked required must be filled in.
Questions
Is this available now?
No. EchoAssure is at an early stage and we are gathering interest from echo professionals. Registering helps decide what we build first, and we’ll be in touch about early conversations and pilots.
Will my details be shared?
No. We use your details only to contact you about EchoAssure, and we don’t sell or share them. Our privacy notice explains where they are stored and how to have them deleted.
Is this a diagnostic tool?
No. EchoAssure is intended for quality improvement, peer review, audit and training. It is not intended to diagnose, or to inform the care of individual patients.
Who can register?
Anyone working in echocardiography: physiologists, sonographers, trainees, cardiologists, and education and accreditation leads. We’re focused on the UK and Ireland first, but we’d like to hear from echo professionals elsewhere too.