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. 

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Van Moore named ACR chair

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Board of Chancellors recentlynamed Arl Van Moore, Jr, MD, FACR as its new chair at theorganization’s recent 83rd Annual Meeting and Chapter LeadershipConference (AMCLC) in Washington, D.C.

House moves forward with health IT promotion bill

A House subcommittee focused on health issues yesterday approved a bill(HR 4157) designed to boost health IT usage nationally through privacystandards and EHRs (electronic health records).

Health IT use grows in hospitals, helps boost care quality

Health IT has the potential to offer considerable quality of careimprovements such as improving clinical informatics, diagnosis,treatment, patient safety and decreasing inefficiencies, according to anew study from the Mathematica research firm.

TEPR speakers urge HIT adoption, but stories reflect a lack of progress

If the opening session speakers at the Medical Records Institute annualconference Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR 2006), held thisweek in Baltimore, were anything to judge by, widespread adoption ofelectronic health records isn’t likely in the near future.

Blum to head customer operations at Misys

Misys Healthcare Systems has appointed Kathy Blum to vice president ofCustomer Operations as part of the company’s Hospital Systems executivemanagement team.

States join privacy and security collaborative

RTI International announced yesterday that 22 states have signedagreements to join a national public-private collaborative aimed ataddressing privacy and security policy questions affectinginteroperable health information exchange.

InnerWireless names new marketing VP

InnerWireless Inc., a provider of in-building wireless systems, hasnamed addition of Christopher Click as vice president of marketing.

DeJarnette names new national sales manager

Jennings Brooke Tracy has been named as national sales manager forDeJarnette’s dyseCT and responsible for growing sales of the productline.

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