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.

Mayo Clinic and Microsoft partner to advance generative AI in radiology
The pair's hope is that their model, which will first focus on chest X-rays, will provide significant benefits for radiology workflows.
ACR partners to create AI foundational model assessment website
Christoph Wald, MD, vice chair of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors, explains the partnerships with academic institutions to create the Health AI Challenge will help provide a better understanding of how foundational AI models work.
Could synthetic images replace the need for contrast?
Synthetic images are often of diagnostic quality and can be reliably used to assess clinically significant prostate cancer while also sparing patients from contrast exposure.
Experts developing AI model that learns from calcium-scoring CT scans
The team hopes to develop a model that will estimate a patient's risk of major cardiovascular events and predict when such events are most likely to occur.
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.

Medicines Company hires Parkin as senior VP of international operations

Glyn R. Parkin has joined the Medicines Company as senior vicepresident of international operations responsible for the design,implementation and leadership of the international organization.

June 18, 2008

Tennessee research institute appoints Manoukian to lead cardiovascular initiative

The Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI) in Nashville, Tenn., hasnamed Steven V. Manoukian, MD, FACC, FSCAI, director of cardiovascularresearch, where he will lead a major cardiovascular research initiativeat SCRI.

June 18, 2008

Medicure appoints Henley as CFO

Medicure, a cardiovascular-focused biopharmaceutical company, has appointed Dwayne Henley as its new chief financial officer.

June 18, 2008

Insurance-driven worklist guides teleradiology assignments

In the busy world of radiology, automated worklist tools help ensurethat the right study gets to the right radiologist in the least amountof time. For example, a worklist will direct an ordered exam toevaluate a patient’s meniscus to a musculoskeletal radiologist, while acranial exam will go to a neuroradiologist for interpretation. However,an element lacking from the parsing capabilities of most worklists isthe capability to filter exam interpretation assignments on the basisof insurance reimbursement.

June 18, 2008

Microsoft launches IT architecture, web services for HHS

Microsoft has released technology architecture and a web servicesframework for the Connected HHS Framework, designed to improveconnections among government agencies that use similar processes indelivering services to their constituents and improve the coordinationof business processes among those agencies.

June 16, 2008

Ziosoft, Johns Hopkins to develop cardiac advanced viz applications

Ziosoft, a provider of advanced visualization and analysis software formedical imaging, is partnering with medical teaching institution, JohnsHopkins University in Baltimore, to explore innovative applications forcardiac CT and MR imaging.

June 16, 2008

ACRIN trial to use Imaging Biometics MR perfusion software

Imaging Biometrics, a provider of advanced visualization andanalytical software solutions, has entered an agreement with theAmerican College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) to evaluate MRIdatasets using its proprietary dynamic susceptibility contrast MRperfusion software, IB Neuro.

June 13, 2008

ONCHIT hires tech firm to tackle medical identity theft problem

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health InformationTechnology (ONCHIT), part of the Department of Health and HumanServices, has awarded approximately $450,000 to Booz AllenHamilton, a strategy and consulting technology firm, to assess andevaluate the scope of the medical identity theft problem in the UnitedStates.

June 12, 2008

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Cardiovascular Business

New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

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Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.

Artificial Intelligence

Mayo Clinic and Microsoft partner to advance generative AI in radiology

ACR partners to create AI foundational model assessment website

Could synthetic images replace the need for contrast?

Experts developing AI model that learns from calcium-scoring CT scans

FDA has approved over 1,000 clinical AI applications, with most aimed at radiology

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