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 approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology
Diagnostic imaging leads the way in AI product approvals by a mile, 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.

RSNA: Toshiba highlights panoply of products

Toshiba America Medical Systems is showcasing a cornucopia of diagnostic imaging technologies at the 2009 Radiological Society of North Americas (RSNA) conference.

October 20, 2009

CDW, Cerner ink reseller accord

CDW Healthcare has signed an agreement with Cerner to sell the Kansas City, Mo.-based health IT developer's line of physician practice products.

October 20, 2009

Experts review storage concerns as meaningful use gets closer to reality

Healthcare facilities will face numerous challenges prepping for meaningful use requirements in the coming years. On Thursday, a Web-broadcast seminar sponsored by Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP, entitled Organizing Healthcare with Storage Visualization, concentrated on some issues and current practices concerning IT storage in relation to the pending meaningful use requirements.

October 16, 2009

Iron Mountain extends platform for cloud storage

Information protection and storage services company Iron Mountain announced this week that it is opening up its Archive Services Platform to application providers.

October 16, 2009

MedQuist, Clario ink agreement

MedQuist has reached a reseller agreement with Clario Medical Imaging to market and resell Clarios zVision software.

October 15, 2009

CardioDx appoints Lange as board chair

CardioDx, a cardiovascular genomic diagnostics company, has appointed Louis G. Lange, MD, PhD, as chairman of its board of directors.

October 12, 2009

Report: Telemedicine spending to approach $3.6B annually by 2014

The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business, according to a report from market research firm Pike & Fischer.

October 12, 2009

Advanced visualization: Cutting costs, dose

The capabilities of advanced visualization imaging technology seemingly grow on a monthly basis. Not only can these applications bring new service lines onboard a practice, they also can help to lower patient radiation dose. A team from the departments of radiology and vascular surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have used post-acquisition CT data processing to enable the use of nonenhanced CT for the detection of endoleak in the repair of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysms.

October 9, 2009

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