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.

Michigan seeks ARRA funding for health IT development

Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm announced Monday that the state will apply for funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to improve healthcare quality, reduce costs and enhance patient privacy through electronic exchange of health information.

September 17, 2009

IOM recommends HHS accumulate, disperse data on ethnicity

The Institute of Medicines (IOM) Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) develop and disperse lists of narrowly defined ethnic categories, as well as written and spoken languages, as part of an effort to standardize the collection of information on patient race, ethnicity and language.

September 17, 2009

Survey: Wisconsin hospitals rapidly becoming health IT adopters

By the end of the 2008 fiscal year, 50 percent of Wisconsin hospitals were considered to be high users of health ITa 25 percent increase over 2007, according to the Wisconsin Health Associations Annual Survey of Hospitals.

September 17, 2009

Hansen debuts updated robotic catheter system, new catheters

Hansen Medical has received FDA clearance for its next-generation Sensei X robotic catheter system. Also, the company is introducing the Artisan Extend control catheter in the U.S., and the Lynx robotic ablation catheter, an irrigated ablation catheter, in Europe.

September 16, 2009

Report: Medical automation technologies market to reach $23B by 2014

The U.S. market for medical automation technologies is worth about $13.1 billion in 2009, and is expected to reach $23.2 billion in 2014, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate of 12.2 percent, according to a market research report from BCC Research.

September 15, 2009

AIM: Collaborative effort needed to advance health IT

An editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine is calling for a significant collaborative effort on the part of health information technology stakeholders, to realize the full promise of health IT.

September 14, 2009

Three HIEs form live, multiregion info exchange

Three Indiana and Ohio organizations have started sending clinical test results, reports and other medical information among their health information exchanges (HIE) in what is thought to be the countrys first live, multiregion clinical information exchange.

September 10, 2009

Radiology: Structured reporting may not fix quality problems

Structured reporting might not necessarily solve quality problems associated with free-text dictation, according to a study published Aug. 25 online in Radiology.

September 10, 2009

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