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.

U.S. should look to Europe for e-health guidance

A recently-published report on EHR and health information exchange initiatives suggests that the United States should look at similar efforts in Europe as a guide for its development of large-scale e-health systems.

August 5, 2009

PACSGear updates MediaWriter

PACSGear, a provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities, has released enhancements to its DICOM CD/DVD burning solution, MediaWriter.

August 5, 2009

CoActiv unveils Auto-Fetch archive

CoActiv Medical is debuting a new archiving solution that provides for the automated recall of relevant prior exams as new images are acquired.

August 5, 2009

Co-founder of athenahealth named HHS CTO

Todd Park, co-founder of athenahealth and a current member of the board of directors of the Watertown, Mass.-based company, has been named chief technology officer (CTO) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

August 4, 2009

Medtronic appoints Bush Administration lawyer as general counsel, SVP

Medtronic has appointed D. Cameron Findlay as senior vice president (SVP), general counsel and corporate secretary, effective Aug. 24.

August 3, 2009

Initiate Systems launches Catalyst software

Initiate Systems, a provider of data-management solutions, has launched the Initiate Catalyst software platform for independent software vendors.

July 30, 2009

Initiate Systems, Datanomic form partnership

Initiate Systems, a provider of multi-domain master-data management solutions for information sharing and data quality, has formed a partnership with Datanomic, a provider of data-quality technology.

July 28, 2009

Three Arkansas health workers plead guilty to HIPAA violations

Jay Holland, MD, of Little Rock, Ark., Sarah Elizabeth Miller of England, Ark., and Candida Griffin of Little Rock, have pled guilty to HIPAA violation charges, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Jane W. Duke.

July 24, 2009

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