Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks.

Commercially available AI increases breast cancer detection by nearly 20%
Results from the world’s largest prospective artificial intelligence study revealed the system could significantly benefit breast cancer screening programs.
Clinicians want AI to show its work
Providers are more likely to trust AI when they understand how it arrives at its conclusions.
New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA
Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.
PHOTO GALLERY: Medical imaging technology at RSNA 2024
Take a virtual tour around the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting to see the sights and new technologies displayed across the vast exhibit hall floors.
Cardiology, radiology specialists debate CCTA’s rise as a go-to imaging modality for CAD
CCTA is being utilized more and more for the diagnosis and management of suspected coronary artery disease. An international group of specialists shared their perspective on this ongoing trend.

HIMSS: Getting to profitable decision support

LAS VEGASCollapsing reimbursement, accountable care and the massive complexity of the healthcare system is making profitable clinical decision support more important than ever, said Adrienne Edens, system vice president and CIO, St. Lukes Health System, during a lecture at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference. The six-hospital system is based in Boise, Idaho.

March 2, 2012

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

As I glance out the window to ponder the remnants of the Leap Year Blizzard that has slammed across the Midwest, the weather seems to reflect this seasons health IT storms.

March 1, 2012

Siemens names Fisher VP

Siemens Healthcare has appointed David Fisher as vice president, healthcare policy and strategy in the U.S., effective Feb. 27.

February 23, 2012

Johnson & Johnson taps Gorsky as CEO

Alex Gorsky, vice chairman of Johnson & Johnsons executive committee, has been named CEO. He will succeed Bill Weldon, who has served as the companys CEO and chairman since 2002. Gorsky was nominated for the position at the companys annual board of directors meeting.

February 23, 2012

HIMSS: Leadership survey sees increase in CMIOs, identifies priorities

LAS VEGASOne nugget gleaned from the 22nd annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) leadership survey data released is that the number of CMIOs is increasingwith respondents reporting a 6 percent year-over-year increase from 2011. The survey, presented at HIMSS12, included feedback from 302 health IT professionals who represent more than 600 hospitals in the U.S.

February 22, 2012

HIMSS: CIOs need to embrace marketing

LAS VEGASMarketing is not a dirty word, Steven R. Bennett, MA, vice president at Kirby Partners in Heathrow, Fla., said during Marketing the Healthcare IT Project; a Feb. 21 session at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

February 22, 2012

VMware teams with Peake Healthcare for medical imaging cloud

Virtualization and cloud infrastructure developer VMware has partnered with Peake Healthcare Innovations to provide a secure cloud platform for collaborative patient care.

February 16, 2012

HIMSS: Etiam introduces image management system

Etiam (Booth 3773), a developer of medical image connectivity technologies, is introducing the Etiam-Connect, a system for communicating and managing images beyond the enterprise, whether in hard copy, CD or electronic format at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas Feb 20-24.

February 16, 2012

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