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.

Teramedica nets U.S. patent for content management system

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a Milwaukee-based medical informatics company, was granted U.S. patent number 7,583,861 for its Evercore-Smartstore clinical content management system.

September 9, 2009

Advanced visualization offers new practice possibilities

One of the compelling arguments for the utilization of advanced visualization imaging technology is that it can extend the capabilities of currently deployed modalities, offering practices the opportunity of expanding service lines. A team of researchers at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., have used post-acquisition CT data processing to enable the 3D visualization of the periampullary region of the ampulla of Vater. Noninvasive evaluation of this structure using CT, conventional MRI and transabdominal sonography is often limited.

September 4, 2009

HIPAA 5010 testing service goes live

The Data Interchange Standards Association has launched DISAcert, an automated, scenario-based online testing service to ensure compliance with new 5010 transaction standards related to HIPAA.

September 3, 2009

HIMSS looks to Denver, Boston for Davies Public Health winners

Recognizing public health achievement through health information management, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) awarded the Boston Public Health Commission, Infectious Disease Bureau and Denver Public Health, Denver Public Health Information Service as recipients of the 2009 HIMSS Davies Public Health Award of Excellence.

September 3, 2009

GE developing wireless monitoring system

GE Healthcare has launched an initiative aimed at developing wireless medical monitoring systems that could replace the tangle of bedside cables used to capture patients vital signs.

September 3, 2009

AHA endorses Extension smart card

The American Hospital Association (AHA), through its subsidiary AHA Solutions, has endorsed Extensions HealthID, a secure smart card that holds individual patient data for use by hospitals.

September 1, 2009

KLAS: Community hospitals cite physician adoption as key item in HIS selection

Unlike past purchase decisions where cost and resource requirements dominated, community hospital executives now consider physician adoption the foremost criterion when purchasing a hospital information system (HIS), according to a report released Tuesday from KLAS.

August 25, 2009

Vanguard joins PHR consortium

Vanguard Health Systems is the newest member of the Dossia Consortium, a non-profit organization comprised of nine other U.S. employers that give employees access to their health data through personal health records (PHRs). The Dossia Founders now include Applied Materials, AT&T, BP America, Cardinal Health, Intel, Pitney Bowes, Abraxis BioScience, sanofi-aventis U.S., Wal-Mart and Vanguard.

August 22, 2009

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