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.

Healthcare hacker attempts double in Q4

Security company SecureWorks recently reported that attempted hacker attacks aimed at its healthcare clients doubled in the fourth quarter of 2009 from an average of 6,500 per healthcare client per day in the first nine months of 2009 to an average of 13,400 per client per day in the last three months of 2009.

January 26, 2010

Welch Allyn features portable ECG, wireless connectivity at Arab Health Congress

Medical equipment manufacturer Welch Allyn will preview a portable electrocardiograph (ECG), as well as showcase medical exam lights and a wireless connectivity module for the Spot Vital Signs LXi device at this week's 2010 Arab Health Congress in Dubai, U.A.E.

January 26, 2010

CDC Software acquires Aussie software provider

Technology company CDC Software has acquired Australian-based software company PeoplePoint Software. The monetary terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

January 25, 2010

Panel: Health IT adoption starts at the local level

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted that the healthcare industry will be positively transformed by technology during a recent Nashville Healthcare Council panel discussion on the future and current state of health IT.

January 22, 2010

Kobashigawa and colleagues migrate from UCLA to Cedars-Sinai

Cardiologists at the California Heart Center, who developed one of the largest U.S. heart transplant programs, are moving from the University of California, Los Angeles to assume leadership roles at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. The group, which will remain in private practice, will also become part of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation.

January 21, 2010

Valentine becomes Cerner's COO

Michael Valentine has been named as executive vice president and chief operating officer of health IT company Cerner. According to the Kansas City, Mo.-based company, Valentines position had been changed from executive vice president and U.S. general manager, effective Jan. 7.

January 21, 2010

Voalt heads West with iPhone app

Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., has become the West Coasts maiden ship for health IT company Voalt's application Voalt One to be employed on iPhones receiving voice, alarms and text messages in one application to all of their point-of-care workers, including nurses.

January 19, 2010

Unisys to sell HIM business to Molina for $135M

Unisys has signed an agreement to sell its health information management (HIM) business to Long Beach, Calif.-based health organization Molina Healthcare for approximately $135 million in cash.

January 19, 2010

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