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. 

EHNAC announces MSO accreditation program for Maryland

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards development organization and accrediting body, has launched its Management Service Organization Accreditation Program (MSOAP).

Practice Fusion, Good Health Media offer free EMR platform

Health ad network Good Health Media and EMR company Practice Fusion have partnered to provide a free EMR system supported by targeted advertising.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure names prez, exec VP

Breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure has appointed Elizabeth Thompson as president and Katrina McGhee as executive vice president (VP) and chief marketing officer.

Riverain appoints Bares as sales, marketing VP

Riverain Medical, which develops image enhancement technology for digital chest x-ray images, has appointed Rich Bares as executive vice president of sales and marketing.

AngioDynamics adds to exec team

AngioDynamics has appointed Scott Solano as senior vice president (VP) and chief technology officer, and Scott Etlinger to the position of senior VP of global operations.

ContextVision taps Tollstadius as CEO

ContextVision, which partners with medical imaging manufacturers for image enhancement, analysis and processing technologies, has appointed Anita Tollstadius as CEO, effective immediately.

Johns Hopkins researchers develop cloud computing software for RNA sequencing

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore have developed new software, known as Myrna, to improve the speed at which scientists can analyze RNA sequencing data using cloud computing, according to an article published online in Genome Biology.

BridgeHead Software, Dell offer joint data management tool

BridgeHead Software and Dell have begun offering hospitals Medical Archive, a joint tool to store medical and administrative data in a centralized repository within an enterprise storage environment.

Around the web

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

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.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.