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.

Vital Images posts losses for Q1

Vital Images, a provider of enterprise-wide advanced visualization andanalysis solutions, has reported losses for the first quarter of 2008, whichended March 31.

Vital launches ViTAL Enterprise

Vital Images, a provider of enterprise-wide advanced visualization andanalysis solutions, has launched the ViTAL Enterprise, enablingunlimited enterprise access to the ViTAL solution offering.

ONCHIT awards $600K for NHIN demonstration project

Six health systems and health information exchanges havereceived grants from the Office of the National Coordinator of HealthInformation Technology (ONCHIT) for participation in the development ofa nationwide health information network (NHIN).

Loper to lead Government Affairs at AdvaMed

Brett Loper has joined the Advanced Medical Technology Association(AdvaMed) as senior executive vice president and director of GovernmentAffairs.

HHS outlines final health IT plans under Bush administration

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published itssemi-annual regulatory agenda, identifying 62 actions it intends totake across the department, in the final year of President George W.Bush’s administration.

Federal agencies share open connection for national health info exchange

The connection shared by federal agencies to the Nationwide HealthInformation Network will be open, flexible and extensible,possibly making the network useful to organizations outside the federalgovernment in the future, according to Federal Health Architectureofficials.

UltraRAD debuts new product, service offerings

UltraRAD, a medical image and information management technologydeveloper of West Berlin, N.J., has released a clutch of new offeringsand upgrades to its product suite.

Former GE, Kodak exec Kerpelman to helm Bio-Optronics

Dan Kerpelman, who will join Bio-Optronics as president and CEO, has acquired a majority of the healthcare workflow technology company's shares.

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Radiology Business

The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business

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.

Cardiovascular Business

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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