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. 

Summit Healthcare’s Express Connect Interface Engine Receives ONC-ATCB Stage 2 Certification by Drummond Group

Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration announces that their Summit Express Connect interface engine has been tested and certified under the Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program for Meaningful Use Stage 2. This EHR software is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was awarded certification on September 26, 2013.

Wolters Kluwer Health and Cerner Corporation Partner to Create Dynamic Documentation Solution

ProVation® Clinic Note Content and Clinical Decision Support will be Embedded into Cerner Millennium® to Improve Patient Care, Streamline Physician Documentation, and Drive the Capture of Structured data

eClinicalHealth Launches Clinpal(TM)-a New Cloud Platform that Improves Patient Engagement at Every Stage of the Clinical Trial Journey

eClinicalHealth Limited, a company dedicated to the provision of innovative clinical trial solutions, has launched Clinpal - a new patient-centric platform designed to engage patients digitally in clinical research more efficiently.

Scribe Develops a Unique and Customized EHR Interface to Consolidate Patient Documentation

The integration team at Scribe Healthcare Technologies, Inc. (http://www.scribe.com) has successfully completed hundreds of integrations, working with the full gamut of Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record (EMR/EHR) systems, but none to date have offered the uniqueness of a recent project.

Healthcare IT Outsourcing Market by Application & Industry - Global Forecast To 2018

'Healthcare IT Outsourcing Market - By Application [Provider (EHR, RCM, LIMS) Payer (CRM, Claims Management, Fraud Detection, Billing) Life Science (ERP, CTMS, CDMS) Operational (SCM, BPM) & Infrastructure (IMS, Cloud Computing)] & Industry - Global Forecast To 2018'

As The Countdown To Obamacare Begins, Maryland Company Seeks To Give Patients A Voice In The Debate Over Unifying And Accessing Their Own Health Records

Medical Informatics, Inc., a corporation committed to patient-centered technological innovations, has launched a web-based public education campaign to educate patients regarding the role of unique patient identifiers in identifying patient health records from different sources.  The grassroots effort's vision of "One Patient | One Number | One Card" aims to unify health records from different providers, irrespective of whether they are paper-based or electronic, and give access to those records to the patients themselves.

ConnectedLiving and CDW Healthcare Partner to Get Seniors Online and Connected

QUINCY, Mass., April 29, 2013 -- ConnectedLiving, a mission-based organization helping senior citizens live richer, more connected lives through the use of technology, today announced a partnership with CDW Healthcare, a leading provider of technology solutions for healthcare. Together both organizations will deliver the technology, services and training necessary to get entire senior living communities online.

Philips to distribute Corindus robotic-assisted PCI system

Royal Philips Electronics and Corindus Vascular Robotics have signed a U.S. distribution agreement for Corindus CorPath 200 system, the recently FDA-approved robotic-assisted system to be used during PCI procedures.

Around the web

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”