With over 150 independent software vendors developing machine learning solutions for medical imaging, sorting through the plethora of options to select vendors is a challenge. Here are 10 factors radiologists should consider (and questions they should ask) before partnering with vendors providing AI solutions for medical imaging.
1. Clinical Relevancy
The foremost consideration for healthcare providers adopting AI into their clinical workflow is relevancy. Does the AI solution truly
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Payment Integrity: Is AI The Real Answer to Reducing Overutilization?
Some experts estimate that $200 billion is wasted each year on unnecessary or excessive medical testing and treatment. This could be up to 40% of the unnecessary spending in the system today.
Despite the extreme focus to reduce the total amount spent on healthcare, why does extensive spending on unnecessary or excessive tests or procedures continue? The easy answer is because it is often difficult to spot what is unnecessary or excessive.
There are certainly moments when overutilization of
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Q/A: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela Talks Data Sharing Challenges in Breast Imaging
- President and CEO Matthew Michela talk about how Life Image is creating easier access to breast imaging data while also solving some of data sharing’s biggest snags.
Interoperability—it’s the long-awaited result that evolving HIT promised
to bring with it, and yet, it still gets left behind. Disparate data is not a
problem exclusive to one data type or innovation; breast imaging, for example,
has created some of the toughest challenges. However, there is now an app for
that.
Life Image,
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Google Adds Suki As One of Their First Clinical Digital Voice Assistant Partners
- Google has just added Suki—an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant that lifts the administrative burden from doctors—as one of Google Cloud Global Healthcare Solutions’ first clinical digital voice assistant partners. - As one of Google Cloud’s first partners offering a digital clinical assistant, Suki will also use its voice technology to develop and improve language models for physician-focused applications.Today, Suki, an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant that lifts the
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Analysis: Why EMRs Will Not Replace Enterprise Imaging IT
The growing influence and uptake of electronic medical records (EMRs) in healthcare have driven debate over the future role of specialist clinical and diagnostics software. With interoperability in the health sector still a major challenge, many health providers are looking to simplify their IT systems, consolidating to fewer software platforms and few vendor partners. With recent extensive and long-term investment in EMR systems, some healthcare providers considering the EMR as a potential
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HP Rolls Out Expanded Healthcare Portfolio to Address Patient Safety, Care Coordination, Data Security
- HP expands its healthcare portfolio of end-to-end print and PC products to address patient safety, care coordination, clinical efficiency, and security.
- HP’s new innovations assist with three critical areas of patient safety: Health-care associated infections, electromagnetic interference, and patient identification.
- HP Healthcare Edition MFPs also include the Biscom for Healthcare app, which is completely integrated with the Epic and Cerner EHR platform.
Today at the
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2 Healthcare Supply Chain Priorities Supporting Value-Based Care to Watch in 2020
- GHX Survey finds healthcare supply chain data and standardization key to accelerating healthcare’s shift to value-based care.- The survey highlights the role of healthcare supply chain data will play during the year(s) ahead in solving the cost-quality-outcomes equation.Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company has announced the results of a survey conducted among its Best 50 provider organizations regarding healthcare supply chain priorities for
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Novo Nordisk, Noom Partner on Digital Health Solutions for Obesity
- Novo Nordisk and Noom collaborate to improve the lives of people living with obesity through digital health solutions focused on weight management and education. - Collaboration builds off a successful 8-month pilot with Novo Nordisk using Noom’s behavior change platform for more than 4,000 people with obesity.Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company and Noom, a behavior change company, today announced a collaboration on digital health solutions focusing on weight management and education,
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NTT Data, Google Cloud to Develop Healthcare Solutions to Improve Patient Experience
NTT DATA Services, a global technology services provider, today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to develop next-gen healthcare solutions designed to improve patient experience, while creating more efficient operations and reducing costs for providers and health plans.Collaboration DetailsNTT DATA is working with Google Cloud to deliver digital offerings in cloud, analytics and artificial intelligence that enable providers to gain better access to insights and solutions needed to
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Healthcare Virtual Assistant Market to Reach $1.76B by 2025
The global healthcare virtual assistant market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 24.7% from 2018 to reach $1.76 billion by 2025, according to market research published by Meticulous Research.The emergence of Healthcare Virtual Assistant MarketVirtual assistants are AI and rule-based systems that interact with humans to perform various tasks. These assistants use cognitive technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and neural networks to enable interactive communications
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