SwiftMR® Enterprise Customer Story
How SimonMed Standardized MRI Across Its Enterprise — and Built the Foundation for Longitudinal Care
Across 180 imaging centers in 10 states, SimonMed operates one of the largest outpatient MRI environments in the United States, spanning multiple manufacturers, field strengths, scanner generations, and systems with existing OEM deep-learning reconstruction. With SwiftMR, SimonMed created one MRI performance strategy across the enterprise without replacing the fleet, and built the foundation for quantitative and longitudinal imaging.
John Simon, MD, and Sean Raj, MD
Founder and CEO · Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, SimonMed Imaging
The Enterprise Challenge: One Patient, Different Scanners
SimonMed’s national MRI network includes multiple manufacturers, a range of field strengths, newer and legacy scanners, and systems with different levels of built-in AI. That diversity creates a fundamental challenge for a large imaging enterprise.
MRI image appearance, signal, and noise can vary with the scanner, the field strength, and the acquisition environment. A patient may have one exam at one SimonMed location and return years later to another center using a different MRI system. For longitudinal imaging, those differences matter.
SimonMed technologists run 180+ MRI scanners spanning manufacturers, generations, and field strengths.
Did the patient change, or did the scanner?
When physicians are following small findings or measuring change over time, scanner-dependent variability can make serial exams harder to compare.
“If you had an MRI done on one scanner, you may go to a different facility and it may be done a little bit differently.John Simon, MD, Founder and CEO
For a network of 180 centers, asking every patient to return to the same location and the same scanner for every follow-up is not a scalable solution. SimonMed needed to address the problem across the fleet itself. The challenge was not improving one MRI scanner. It was creating greater consistency across an entire MRI enterprise.
Every SimonMed Imaging center as of 2026.
One Enterprise. One MRI Performance Standard.
SimonMed needed a solution that could operate across the MRI infrastructure already in place. That meant supporting scanners from multiple manufacturers, generations, and field strengths, including systems already equipped with OEM deep-learning reconstruction. And it had to do so without forcing SimonMed into a fleet-wide hardware replacement or scanner upgrade strategy.
The enterprise requirement was clear: one technology layer across a highly diverse MRI fleet.
SimonMed Evaluated the Market for an Enterprise Solution
SimonMed was already experienced in evaluating and deploying AI across its organization. When it assessed MRI acceleration and image-enhancement platforms, the technology needed to meet more than a scanner-level performance test. It had to work at enterprise scale.
SimonMed evaluated major solutions against requirements that included:
What distinguished SwiftMR was its ability to meet these requirements as a single enterprise solution — delivering consistent performance across SimonMed’s diverse MRI fleet without requiring a scanner-by-scanner hardware or OEM software upgrade strategy.
“We rigorously evaluated every major solution in the market, and this was a clear decision.Sean Raj, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer
From Decision to Enterprise-Wide Deployment in 10 Days
Once SimonMed selected SwiftMR, it did not want the technology confined to a prolonged pilot. The organization moved more than 180 MRI scanners across its network to SwiftMR in just 10 days.
No new scanner hardware was required. SimonMed deployed SwiftMR across the MRI infrastructure it already owned rather than approaching the transformation scanner by scanner.
“We could be stuck in a pilot purgatory, or we could pivot fast and just go enterprise wide.Sean Raj, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer
SwiftMR demonstrated that MRI AI could scale with the enterprise.
One AI Foundation Across the MRI Fleet
With SwiftMR deployed across its MRI network, SimonMed established a foundational AI layer across a highly heterogeneous fleet. The value extends beyond making individual scans faster.
Standardization
Create greater consistency across vendors, scanner generations, field strengths, and locations.
Capital Efficiency
Extend the performance and value of existing MRI infrastructure without requiring scanner replacement or OEM hardware and software upgrades.
Enterprise Scalability
Deploy and manage one MRI performance strategy across a national network instead of implementing isolated solutions scanner by scanner.
Network-Wide Clinical Consistency
Deliver consistent image quality across scanners and locations, giving radiologists greater confidence in longitudinal comparison.
Standardization Is the Foundation for Longitudinal Care
For SimonMed, enterprise MRI standardization supports a much larger objective. The organization is building toward imaging that can follow a patient across time, not simply produce a series of disconnected examinations.
But longitudinal imaging only becomes truly useful when physicians can have greater confidence that a measured change reflects the patient, rather than differences introduced by the scanner or acquisition environment. That is why standardization matters.
A patient may be scanned in Florida today and California years later. The MRI system may be older or newer, at a different field strength, or from another manufacturer. The goal is not to make every scanner identical. It is to create a more consistent imaging foundation across the enterprise so serial imaging can become more meaningful over time.
Measure the patient, not the scanner.
A scan here has to be comparable with one taken years later, at another center, on a different machine.
From MRI Performance to MRI Intelligence
Standardization is not the endpoint. It creates the foundation for the next layer of value: quantification and longitudinal tracking. SimonMed is expanding its use of imaging into programs focused on areas including brain health, body composition, and longitudinal care.
SwiftMR provides the reconstruction foundation across the MRI fleet. SwiftSight extends that foundation into quantitative imaging and longitudinal analysis. Together, they support a broader evolution of MRI.
Enhance
Create a stronger, more consistent imaging foundation across the fleet.
Quantify
Turn imaging into objective, reproducible measurements.
Track
Follow meaningful changes across patient visits and over time.
Predict
Leverage longitudinal imaging data to surface earlier, deeper insight into patient health.
Beyond a Point Solution
SimonMed was not simply looking for another reconstruction product. Its relationship with AIRS Medical has developed around a broader vision for where imaging is going: from MRI performance and standardization today toward quantitative and longitudinal imaging tomorrow.
“We’re not just buying a point solution. We are in true partnership.Sean Raj, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer
For an enterprise imaging organization, that distinction matters. Technology decisions made across hundreds of scanners have to solve today’s operational problem while supporting what the organization wants to do next.
For SimonMed, SwiftMR provides that foundation.
One Enterprise. One MRI Foundation. More Possibilities Ahead.
SimonMed started with a problem common to large imaging organizations: a heterogeneous MRI fleet operating across a distributed network. By deploying SwiftMR enterprise-wide, SimonMed created a common AI foundation across more than 180 MRI scanners without replacing the fleet.
That foundation supports greater consistency across the network today while enabling SimonMed’s broader vision for quantitative and longitudinal imaging tomorrow.
One enterprise. Multiple vendors. One MRI foundation.
What Could One MRI Standard Unlock Across Your Enterprise?
Mixed vendors. Different scanner generations. Multiple field strengths. Existing OEM AI. See how AIRS Medical can help you standardize MRI performance across the infrastructure you already own, and build the foundation for the next generation of MRI intelligence.
Testimonials reflect SimonMed Imaging’s own experience. Individual results vary by scanner, sequence, and protocol.
SwiftMR is FDA 510(k)-cleared in the United States to support images with scan time reduction by up to 50%.
