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.

FDA has now approved more than 1,000 clinical AI applications, most aimed at radiology
Radiology products lead the way for AI approvals by a long shot, accounting for more than 70% of all applications on the list.
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.
ACR Assess-AI national data registry tracks performance of clinical algorithms
Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the ACR Board of Chancellors, explains how the new Assess-AI National Radiology Data Registry is designed to help monitor accuracy and other metrics for radiology artificial intelligence.
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.

NeHC names nine board members

National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has elected nine leaders in healthcare fields to the organizations board of directors.

February 1, 2010

Health groups to FTC: Exclude health professionals from "red flags" rule

A letter was sent to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz by leaders of the American Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, American Dental Association and American Veterinary Medical Association to exclude healthcare professionals from a red flags rule intended to combat identity theft.

February 1, 2010

Hughes becomes CFO at Medipattern

Medipattern has appointed John Hughes chief financial officer (CFO), effective Feb. 1.

January 30, 2010

Broadlane undergoes executive shakeup

Healthcare management provider Broadlane has announced that the company's board chair Patrick T. Ryan will assume the CEO position, while Thomas Sherry, chief operating officer, will become president.

January 29, 2010

Broadlane undergoes executive shakeup

Healthcare Management provider Broadlane has announced that the company's board chairman Patrick T. Ryan will assume the CEO position. Also, Thomas Sherry, Broadlanes chief operating officer will become president.

January 29, 2010

Report: Data breach costs steadily rising

U.S. organizations continue to experience increased costs from data breaches, according to a recent study from the consulting firm Ponemon Institute. The average organizational cost of a data breach increased nearly 2 percent, from $6.65 million in 2008 to $6.75 million in 2009.

January 29, 2010

Report: 22% of healthcare employers plan to hire in 2010

Twenty-two percent of healthcare employers said they plan to increase the number of full-time, permanent employees in 2010, up from 17 percent who said the same last year, according to a survey from Chicago-based online recruitment Web site CareerBuilder.

January 29, 2010

Study: MRA + computer-aided detection can better detect brain aneurysms

MR angiography (MRA), with the addition of a specially designed computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme, has proven to have greater accuracy than MRA alone, and may have the ability to improve the sensitivity of intracranial aneurysm detection on MR images, according to the findings of a collaborative project of Mayo Clinic and IBM.

January 28, 2010

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