Durham, NC, and Chicago, IL, November 6, 2025, DataFirst and Gradient Health have announced a strategic partnership designed to bridge the gap between medical data management and AI innovation. Through this collaboration, imaging providers using DataFirst’s Silverback® Workflow Engine can now seamlessly enable secure, de-identified data sharing for AI development via Gradient Health, creating new revenue opportunities while contributing to more representative and unbiased medical AI systems.
Imaging providers working with DataFirst can opt in to make their de-identified imaging data research-ready and accessible to AI developers through Gradient’s secure platform, Atlas. Participating institutions can monetize their data assets and generate recurring revenue by contributing de-identified data via the Silverback platform.
In today’s medical technology landscape, innovation depends on access to high-quality, representative data. Without it, progress stalls, and the technologies meant to improve care risk serving only a narrow few. Gradient Health’s World Without Data initiative highlights this challenge: without participation from all types of healthcare providers, AI systems will widen health inequalities and exacerbate bias. The partnership between Gradient Health and DataFirst helps close that gap by making participation simple, secure, and rewarding for imaging providers of every size.
“Our mission is to make medical AI both more representative and more accessible,” said Josh Miller, CEO of Gradient Health. “Partnering with DataFirst means healthcare providers can now move from simply managing their data to actively contributing to the next generation of medical innovation while being rewarded for it.”
“Healthcare Institutions are recognizing that they have currency in the digital world, and that currency is data,” said Beau Jones, CEO of DataFirst. Our partnership with Gradient empowers institutions with a purpose-built technology platform to access, normalize, and de-identify clinical data for research, clinical trials, and AI development.
Gradient Health and DataFirst look forward to expanding the partnership and helping more imaging providers take an active role in shaping the future of medical AI —not just as recipients of new technologies, but as contributors to their development.
Existing DataFirst customers can contact their account manager to learn more about the program, opt in, and begin receiving revenue share for their de-identified imaging data.
About Gradient Health
Gradient Health enables medical AI developers to access diverse, de-identified imaging datasets representing real-world populations. By partnering with healthcare institutions around the world, Gradient provides researchers with the data they need to develop, validate, and deploy AI safely and effectively.
Learn more at GradientHealth.io
About DataFirst
DataFirst Corporation is the leading provider of exclusive end-to-end, scalable integration, interoperability, and migration technology solutions for the Healthcare IT market since 1990. Focused exclusively on enterprise imaging Interoperability challenges, The SilverBack® Integration Workflow Engine is a powerful, intelligent routing, interoperable enterprise imaging platform and integrated HL7 engine that ensures healthcare data (images, clinical reports, and discrete clinical information) is fully integrated and always accessible – resulting in better patient care and improved IT performance. Additionally, Silverback® empowers clinicians with an industry-leading platform for accessing, cataloguing, and anonymizing clinical data for AI enablement and predictive algorithm development.
Learn more at Datafirst.com