Illuminate

What Illuminate does

Illuminate (legal entity: Softek Illuminate, Inc.) is a private healthcare technology company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. The company develops AI-powered clinical surveillance software that analyzes unstructured data in hospital EMR systems—primarily radiology reports and clinical notes—to identify patients with incidental findings (lung nodules, abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms, adrenal masses, pancreatic cysts, cerebral aneurysms, IVC filters) who require follow-up care that was missed or never explicitly recommended. Documented operational outcomes include 47,234 lives saved, 130,000 aneurysms identified that were lost to follow-up, 8 minutes saved per complex radiology read, and 6,000 radiologist hours recovered annually across its customer base.

The company's core platform, Discovery360, powers disease-specific surveillance programs and is supported by a modular suite of solution components: ActKnowledge (patient follow-up tracking), PatientView (instant clinical data retrieval), InSight (vendor-neutral clinical search), Analytics (radiology performance management), and PeerReview (co-developed with Mayo Clinic). The proprietary NLP software and a patented data-ranking algorithm process clinical text and structured EMR data across approximately 9.7 billion documents indexed in customer environments. The platform is integrated with all major U.S. EMR systems (Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, MEDITECH, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, NextGen) and more than 12 PACS vendors.

Illuminate sells exclusively through direct enterprise sales and a small set of reseller agreements (notably Viz.ai), targeting U.S. hospital systems, academic medical centers, and government health programs. Revenue is generated through SaaS licensing with quote-based pricing plus professional services for implementation and nurse-navigation support. The company reports 70+ hospitals as customers and lists notable clients including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, Henry Ford Health System, University of Kansas Health System, University of California Davis Health, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Loyola Medicine, Ardent Health Services, WellStar Health System, and the VA Department of Veterans Affairs.

Name

Illuminate

Legal name

Softek Illuminate, Inc.

Website

https://illuminate.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Illuminate (Softek Illuminate, Inc.) is a private Kansas-based healthcare AI company whose proprietary NLP platform analyzes unstructured EMR data to identify at-risk patients with incidental findings, sold exclusively to 70+ U.S. hospital systems and academic medical centers via direct enterprise sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Clinical Surveillance Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Orchestration & Imaging Analytics Platforms (Model Management/Triage) (HLACALAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Imaging Informatics & Workflow (PACS/RIS/VNA) (HLAHABAI), Enterprise Integration Engines & Interface Management (HL7 v2/X12/API) (HLACABAC), Healthcare Terminology, Ontology & Code Set Management (SNOMED/LOINC/ICD/RxNorm) (HLACAIAF)

Keywords

• Clinical surveillance software
• EMR data analytics
• Healthcare NLP platform
• Patient follow-up tracking
• Radiology informatics

Headquarters

HQ city

Overland Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Software Licensing: SaaS licensing model for healthcare organizations to access Illuminate's AI-powered patient management and disease surveillance platform. Includes Discovery360 suite and Illuminate product modules.
2. Professional Services: Implementation services, nurse navigation support, and custom workflow configuration for healthcare organizations deploying the platform.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Illuminate provides an AI-powered platform (Softek Illuminate, Inc.) that uses proprietary natural language processing to analyze unstructured clinical data inside hospital electronic medical record (EMR) systems, identifying patients with incidental findings such as lung nodules, aortic aneurysms, and adrenal masses, and routing them into structured disease surveillance and follow-up programs. Its product suite centers on the Discovery360 workflow platform alongside Illuminate platform modules (ActKnowledge, PatientView, InSight, Analytics, PeerReview) sold to hospitals, academic medical centers, and government health systems.

Product overview

Illuminate is a platform-plus-modules architecture consisting of the core Discovery360 platform and multiple integrated solution modules. Discovery360 is a multi-phase workflow solution for identification, follow-up, and coordination of treatment for at-risk patients. The Illuminate platform itself provides AI-powered EMR data access and insights. The product portfolio includes ActKnowledge (patient follow-up tracking), PatientView (instant patient data access), InSight (clinical search engine), Analytics (radiology practice analytics), and PeerReview (peer learning solution). These modules work together within the Discovery360 ecosystem to enable healthcare organizations to identify patients with incidental findings, track them through surveillance programs, and ensure timely follow-up care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Discovery360™: Multi-phase workflow solution for identification, follow-up, and coordination of treatment for at-risk patients.
• Illuminate PeerReview
• Illuminate ActKnowledge™
• Illuminate PatientView™
• Illuminate InSight™
• Illuminate Analytics™

Products and services

• Discovery360 Multi-phase workflow solution that powers the identification, follow-up, and coordination of treatment for at-risk patients, encompassing software and services for incidental surveillance and screening programs for hospitals and health systems.
• Illuminate Platform AI-powered platform for EMR data access, management, and insights, providing workflow-conscious solutions that improve EMR data access, management, and insights for patient follow-up care and outcomes.
• Illuminate ActKnowledge Patient follow-up tracking module that simplifies the process of identifying and tracking at-risk patients and getting them under an incidental surveillance program, powered by workflow-conscious AI.
• Illuminate PatientView Instant patient data access module providing immediate access to patient clinical summaries, surgical reports, lab tests, prior imaging reports, and related pathology diagnoses at the point of read without requiring EMR login.
• Illuminate InSight Vendor-neutral clinical search engine providing instant access to any report in the hospital's radiology, pathology, lab and clinical notes, featuring a patented data-ranking algorithm for delivering relevant results from hundreds of millions of records.
• Illuminate Analytics Radiology practice analytics module for proactive monitoring of daily scheduling and resource allocation, comprehensive report production, trend identification, and business practice management, with integration to QGenda and Lightning Bolt scheduling systems.
• Illuminate PeerReview Data-driven peer learning solution for radiology practices, co-developed with Mayo Clinic and other leading healthcare organizations, offering a collaborative environment for diagnostic accuracy and quality improvement with HIPAA-compliant peer collaboration.

Quantifiable outcome

• 47,234 lives saved through early detection and follow-up programs
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration21 records

AI capability8 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ResolvercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 March 2026Partnership to assist online service providers in meeting regulatory requirements for online safety enforcement. Combines Trust & Safety expertise with Resolver's risk-management tool called OSCAR to ensure compliance is evidence-based and operationally aligned with regulatory expectations for EU and UK regulations.
• Viz.aicoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorReseller agreement partnership to improve quality of care for aortic aneurysm patients. Viz.ai distributes Illuminate's surveillance technology as part of their connected care platform for health systems.
• EpiccoreTechnology or IntegrationEMR integration partnership. Illuminate connects with Epic's EMR system for seamless data exchange and clinical workflow integration.
• CernercoreTechnology or IntegrationEMR integration partnership providing data extraction from Cerner Millennium and Clarity databases for historical data loading and ongoing clinical updates.
• MedexprimminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorReseller agreement partnership for medical imaging data management and interoperability solutions.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Blackford Analysis: Blackford is an AI-imaging platform that curates, deploys, and orchestrates third-party radiology AI algorithms — competing for the same AI-orchestration budget that Illuminate's Discovery360 targets.
• Nuance (Microsoft): Nuance's PowerScribe and DAX Copilot are clinical-NLP platforms that ingest unstructured radiology reports and clinical notes — directly competing with Illuminate InSight and ActKnowledge for the same radiology-workflow budget at the same hospital customers.
• Viz.ai: Viz.ai's connected-care platform coordinates stroke and now aortic aneurysm care with AI; Illuminate is both a Viz.ai reseller and a peer competing for vascular surveillance budget at the same hospital systems.
• Aidoc: Aidoc is an enterprise imaging-AI orchestration platform that runs triage and workflow models across PACS — directly comparable to Illuminate's AI/surveillance layer on top of radiology infrastructure.
• 3M Health Information Systems (MModal): 3M/MModal is the legacy incumbent in clinical NLP for radiology reporting and computer-assisted coding, competing head-to-head for the unstructured-text-analysis workload Illuminate targets inside EMRs.
• Riverain Technologies: Riverain offers AI radiology workflow and incidental-finding detection tools (e.g., ClearRead), competing with Illuminate ActKnowledge for the radiologist-productivity and missed-finding use case.

Emerging players

• Arterys: Arterys delivers cloud-native imaging AI and analytics across modalities — a comparable cloud-AI radiology platform competing with Illuminate Analytics for imaging-analytics dollars.
• Zebra Medical Vision (Nanox): Zebra Medical (now part of Nanox) ships AI algorithms for incidental findings across CT — overlapping with several Illuminate disease modules, though at broader radiology-AI breadth.

Broad incumbents

• Merative (formerly IBM Watson Health): Merative markets enterprise imaging and clinical workflow tools and integrates with PACS and EMRs — overlapping with Illuminate as a broader healthcare-IT incumbent and former employer of Illuminate's commercial leadership.
• RadNet / DeepHealth: RadNet through DeepHealth operates one of the largest radiology AI-deployment footprints in the US; it sells AI-enabled reporting and workflow broadly, overlapping with Illuminate's radiology-workflow positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/illuminate-inc.

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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