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.

CFO Barbieri departs TriZetto

Bob Barbieri, the TriZetto Group’s chief financial officer (CFO), has departed the company for personal reasons.

Study: HIE development underway in 75 percent of states

Three-quarters of U.S. states have begun developing a health information exchange (HIE) of some kind, according to a new report from the State-Level HIE Consensus Project.

Vital Images hits advanced visualization sales milestone

Vital Images has surpassed the milestone of 3,000 customers andapproximately 5,000 installations of advanced visualization softwaresolutions.

Lemaitre replaces co-founder as CoreValve CEO

CoreValve has appointed Daniel T. Lemaitre as CEO, who succeeds JacquesSéguin, MD, PhD, co-founder of CoreValve. Séguin will remain within thecompany as chairman of the board.

SIIM 2008: Where Imaging, Informatics & Ingenuity Meet

When the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meets forits annual symposia in Seattle this month (May 15-18), the hot topicswill be everything PACS—imaging center workflow and IT infrastructure,working with ‘ologies outside of radiology, operational policies andprocedures, RIS and PACS replacement strategies, disaster recoveryplanning, communicating test results and IHE vs. Service OrientedArchitecture (SOA).

CMS uses $50M from DRA funds to award 20 Medicaid IT grants

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded $50million in IT grants to 20 states to improve access to primary medicalcare for Medicaid beneficiaries.

DoD, VA cite progress in record-sharing

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) reported to the Senate on the progress that has been made to integrate their systems and improve care to wounded veterans.

N.H. governor seeks to improve health IT infrastructure

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch has directed the Citizens HealthInitiative to develop a plan for improving the state's healthinformation infrastructure to improve healthcare quality andaffordability for residents.

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Radiology Business

The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

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Cardiovascular Business

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

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Cardiovascular Business

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

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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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