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.

Spooner named CIO of the year

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society have chosen William Spooner, senior vice president and CIO at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, Calif., as the recipient of the 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award.

January 13, 2010

Fujifilm undergoes exec shakeup

Fujifilm Medical Systems has announced a series of changes to its executive team.

January 13, 2010

HHS seeks to re-identify de-identified HIPAA data

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to solicit and award a task order contract to acquire services for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), in order to re-identify a health Information Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) de-identified dataset.

January 13, 2010

Invasion of the Body Scanners

The news that a man tried to destroy a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day by igniting chemicals hidden in his underwear has officials across the globe rethinking the issue of airline security. One of the major considerations under discussion for improvements is the use of full body scanners.

January 7, 2010

RSNA: TeraRecon highlights flurry of clinical, education activity

TeraRecon, a provider advanced visualization and decision support solutions for medical imaging, released details of research presentations and educational activities supported by the company at the 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 29 through Dec. 4, 2009.

January 7, 2010

Report: Remote monitoring, care will improve quality, save money

Connected health--continuous, remote monitoring of chronic conditions, as well as online and mobile care--will improve quality, contain costs and provide a new level of convenience for health consumers, according to a report from New York City-based consulting company Accenture.

January 6, 2010

QuadraMed selects Dunn as new sales, marketing VP

Healthcare technology provider QuadraMed has named Thomas J. Dunn as its senior vice president of sales and marketing.

January 6, 2010

Canon appoints Duca as president of subsidiary Virtual Imaging

Canon U.S.A., a digital imaging provider, has appointed Chris Duca as president of Virtual Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon.

December 31, 2009

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