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. 

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Siemens launches mobile DR w/ wireless detector

Siemens Healthcare is unveiling its first mobile digital x-ray system with a wireless detector at UKRC 2011 in Manchester, England.

Imaging under fire: Inside the combat radiology tent

Forty-two miles north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in the notorious Sunni Triangle lies the largest U.S. military hospital in Iraq, the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group in Balad. This level III facility is the epicenter of the militarys highest-ever survival ratefor soldiers wounded on the Iraqi battlefield, 98 times out of 100, if they make it to Balad, physicians will save their lives.

GE Healthcare, Cisco offer network-based tracking

GE Healthcare Performance Solutions and Cisco have joined forces to help hospitals better manage the flow of patients, staff and equipment.

NEJM: ACOs don't show quick return on investment

Although the accountable care organization (ACO) model could generate savings and lead to more coordinated care, many organizations that embrace the model could lose money in the first three years, according to a perspective published March 23 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Online EMR resource site launches

EMRapproved.com has launched an online resources and EMR technology directory, which provides EMR/EHR research, consulting and vending services, as well as EMR-compatible hardware and technology packages to assist healthcare organizations with EMR implementation and project planning.

IntelliDose expands Allscripts partnership

Six oncology centers across the country are adding IntelliDose software for oncology-specific functions to their Allscripts EHR systems.

Bayer, Vital align on advanced viz

Vital Images and the diagnostic imaging unit of Bayer Vital have agreed to coordinate their respective advanced visualization software and contrast agents with the aim of improving radiologists efficiency in Germany.

Advanced Visualization: Goes Enterprisewide, Sort of

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has mandated that facilities integrate advanced visualization imaging from CT, MRI and nuclear medicine into their EHRs/EMRs by 2015.

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Radiology Business
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A significant milestone’: First US patients receive doses of new PET radiotracer for CAD

Back in September, the FDA approved GE HealthCare’s new PET radiotracer, flurpiridaz F-18, for patients with known or suspected CAD. It is seen by many in the industry as a major step forward in patient care. 

Cardiovascular Business
Continuation of 99mTc-PYP shortage prompts need for alternative cardiac amyloidosis imaging

After three years of intermittent shortages of nuclear imaging tracer technetium-99m pyrophosphate, there are no signs of the shortage abating.