What You Should Know:
- RADLogics today announced that it has secured
510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application,
which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear
to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review.
- RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions
– including this application – are
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M&A Analysis: 3 Benefits of Siemens Healthineers’ $16.4B Acquisition of Varian Medical
What You Should Know:
- Siemens Healthineers and Varian Medical announce a $16.4B deal in an all-cash transaction on 2nd August 2020.
- Deal expected to close in 1H 2021.
- Varian Medical will maintain its brand name and operate “independently”
- Siemens AG will drop holding in Siemens Healthineers from 85% to 72% as part of the transaction.
News of the deal between Siemens Healthineers and Varian Medical will have caught many industry onlookers off guard on Sunday evening.
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TeraRecon Acquired by SymphonyAI: What is the Impact for Medical Imaging Market?
On the 4th March 2020, TeraRecon announced it had signed an agreement to be acquired by the SymphonyAI Group. Here are the facts of the deal, followed by our take on the potential impact on the medical imaging market:
- The terms of the deal were not disclosed and TeraRecon will continue to operate business as usual. However, it will benefit from greater financial backing and the synergistic technologies from other companies in the Group’s portfolio.
- TeraRecon is an Advanced
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UChicago Medicine Selects Life Image’s Breast Health Data Tool
- UChicago Medicine working with Mammosphere by Life Image to allow patients easy, secure access to their breast imaging and to support the WISDOM Study to establish screening guidelines. - Mammosphere was developed to support women throughout their entire breast health journey, including contributing to scientific research. By offering patients this digital tool, patients in the WISDOM Study will have additional tools to support their long-term commitment to the research.Life Image, the world’s
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MaxQ AI to Offer Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) AI-Powered Apps on Blackford Platform
- MaxQ AI and Blackford today announced that MaxQ AI’s FDA-cleared and CE Marked ACCIPIO ICH applications for stroke, traumatic brain injury and head trauma are now available on the Blackford Platform.- Fully integrated with existing systems, the Blackford Platform simplifies the implementation and management of multiple imaging applications and AI algorithms and reduces the load on PACS. - MaxQ AI now has distribution agreements in place with trusted CT OEMs, PACS software, and AI Ecosystem
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MaxQ AI Expands Partnership with GE Healthcare’s PACS Solution
- MaxQ AI and GE Healthcare announces the expansion of their partnership that will bring the power of AI-enabled solutions into hospitals and emergency rooms worldwide.- MaxQ AI’s ACCIPIO ICH and Stroke platform will be integrated into the next generation of GE Healthcare’s PACS and Universal Viewing platforms- This addition makes GE Healthcare the first to offer a comprehensive CT and PACS MaxQ AI offering. MaxQ AI, the industry-leading medical diagnostic AI company, today announced that the
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Philips Unveils Next-Gen Enterprise Imaging Solution to Embed Intelligence Across Patient Journey
- Philips launches next-generation enterprise imaging solution designed to connect clinical capabilities and optimize workflows around every step in the patient’s journey.- The new enterprise imaging solution supports hospitals and imaging centers as they seek to connect and optimize performance, improving the patient experience, health outcomes, and staff experience, while lowering the cost of care.Royal Philips, today introduced its next-generation enterprise imaging solution that delivers a
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IBM Watson Health Unveils Imaging AI Marketplace of FDA-Cleared Solutions
- IBM Watson Health unveils two new products at RNSA 2019, Clinical Review 3.0 and The Imaging AI Marketplace. - Clinical Review 3.0, a tool recently launched in the UK that analyzes medical imaging studies and their associated reports to identify potentially missed findings, facilitating higher quality and more comprehensive care for the patient.- The Imaging AI Marketplace is a single-source solution designed to help simplify the complex process of locating, purchasing, deploying and managing
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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Digital Pathology
- As the digital pathology market grows, facilities that rely on digital pathology will start using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist. AI could help health professionals cope with the gigantic quantities of data - Discover why healthcare facilities increasingly realize that AI could help achieve significant impacts with digital pathology.Thanks to approvals from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for applications such as primary disease diagnosis, digital pathology is rapidly becoming
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10 Factors Radiologists Should Consider When Selecting AI Vendors
Dr. Sanjay M. Parekh Ph.D., Sr Market Analyst at Signify Research Ltd.
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
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