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. 

iSOFT, iMDsoft ink distribution deal

iSoft Health will begin distributing clinical information systems provider iMDsofts MetaVision suite in Germany.

HIMSS: Carestream to unveil new clinical data archive

Carestream Health (Booth #6751) will showcase its new Carestream Clinical Data Archive with a consolidated data storage and management solution for various data types, regardless of vendor, at HIMSS10 in Atlanta during the first week of March.

HIMSS: GE to highlight eHealth platform

At HIMSS10 in Atlanta during the first week of March, GE Healthcare (Booth #7039) will unveil and highlight remote monitoring technologies that assist point of care decision making.

Survey: 50,000+ health IT jobs could be created by 2015

Most health IT professionals believe that at least 50,000 new jobs in health IT will be created by 2015, according to healthcare nonprofit organization American Society of Health Informatics Managers.

VA sets up digital dashboard, 71% of projects on target

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has posted a digital dashboard Web site for public viewing to provide transparency into the departments cost, schedule and overall performance of IT projects.

ACCA honors C. Ross Berry

C. Ross Berry, MBA, has been tapped as the 2010 recipient of the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators Award of Excellence.

Merge Healthcare posts losses for Q4, slight gains for FY09

Health IT company Merge Healthcare has reported net losses for its fourth quarter of 2009, despite pulling into the black for the 2009 fiscal year.

McKesson releases new practice management software

Health IT company McKesson has released the new Lytec 2010 practice management software and its latest version of Lytec MD.

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.