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.

peerVue names Moore as COO

Mike Moore has joined healthcare software developer peerVue as senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO).

August 14, 2009

QuadraMed names new chairman

QuadraMed has named James E. Peebles chairman of its board of directors, replacing Robert Pevenstein, who has served as chairman for the last three and one-half years.

August 13, 2009

Brit introduces critical results tool at AHRA

Brit Systems unveiled UrgentWorks, a Web-based application that supports flagging of urgent findings, test results and emergency room discordance by reporting clinicians, and the communication and on-going tracking of results to the ordering physician, at the 2009 Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) meeting this week in Las Vegas.

August 13, 2009

Practice Fusion, Force.com align for PHR launch

Practice Fusion, a provider of Web-based physician practice applications, has received an investment from salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company.

August 11, 2009

QuadraMed posts Q2 loss

Health IT solutions developer QuadraMed has shown a downturn in profitability and revenue for the firm's fiscal 2009 second quarter.

August 11, 2009

Eclipsys ends Q2 in the red, looks to stimulus for help

Health IT system developer Eclipsys has reported declining revenues and a sharp downturn in profitability for the Atlanta-based firm's 2009 fiscal second quarter, which ended June 30.

August 7, 2009

Advanced viz: Augmenting oncology

Detecting cancer is perhaps one of the most powerful applications of non-invasive diagnostic imaging. The capability to catch a cancer early in its development can truly be life-saving medicine, and with the added benefit of advanced visualization technology, a clinicians interpretive skill can be even more powerful. Coupling the strength of MRI with mammography delivers much more might to the provision of breast cancer screening surveillance in high-risk womenthose individuals carrying the breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1), BRCA2 or TP53 gene mutation. Using analytic tools, such as subtraction, multiplanar reconstruction, maximum intensity projection from subtracted images and dynamic analysis of the 3D dynamic series, U.K. scientists have been able to garner critical diagnostic information from MR breast studies.

August 7, 2009

New Novovision module boosts pathology workflow

Novovision has added a flow-cytometry module to its NovoPath anatomic-pathology lab-workflow management system that will, according to the Princeton, N.J.-based company, save as much as 30 minutes on the typical flow cytometry reporting process.

August 6, 2009

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