SSF supports global healthcare by bringing together inventors, their promising new technologies and medical practitioners of all types. For instance, content-based image retrieval, a technology still in its early stages, holds vast implications for stimulating a new generation of diagnostic and research tools.

Propagating this technology's use throughout the medical world will encourage its acceptance and simultaneously, create a more robust database. SSF will assist by creating an extensive repository of medical and biomedical imagery around which teams of researchers, medical personnel, computer scientists, technologists and industry representatives can collaborate to realize the technology’s full potential.