Nuance and Partners HealthCare Collaborate to Accelerate Widespread Development, Deployment and Adoption of AI Applications f...
March 05 2018 - 12:19PM
At HIMSS 2018, Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN), (booth
#1143) today announced the signing of a multi-year
strategic agreement with Partners HealthCare. The two organizations
will optimize the process for rapid development, validation and
utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) for radiologists at the
point of care, and Nuance intends to make the new algorithms
available through the Nuance AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging.
The collaboration will be executed through the recently formed
Massachusetts General Hospital ("MGH") and Brigham and Women’s
Hospital ("BWH") Center for Clinical Data Science (“CCDS”) and will
focus on improving radiologists’ efficiency and report quality, as
well as patient clinical outcomes.
Nuance and Partners HealthCare will work together, and with
other key supporters of the Nuance AI Marketplace for Diagnostic
Imaging including NVIDIA and the American College of Radiology. The
collective will continue to foster the democratization of Imaging
AI, with an emphasis on automating many of the mundane and
repetitive tasks radiologists face daily. The AI Marketplace is an
open platform for developers, data scientists and radiologists to
accelerate the development, deployment, and adoption of AI for
medical imaging. Leveraging the 70 percent of Radiologists in the
U.S. already using Nuance’s PowerScribe radiology reporting and
PowerShare image exchange network, the AI Marketplace unlocks the
power of AI for all radiologists and developers. Specifically,
technology partners can now seamlessly deploy their algorithms into
Nuance’s cloud-based PowerShare Network and users can
easily select them through the PowerScribe radiology
reporting platform. This enables the algorithms to be accessed
within a radiologist’s native workflow, eliminating the need to buy
new reporting or image sharing systems.
Accessibility and efficiency are major drivers of the work
taking place at the CCDS. "We spend a lot of energy thinking about
how to develop and effectively deliver tools into the clinical
workflow - starting upstream with designing smarter imaging
modalities to downstream automation of reporting workflows," said
Mark Michalski, MD, Executive Director of the CCDS. "As AI tool
sets are increasingly democratized, scaling the delivery and
integration of these tools is likely to represent a barrier to
broad adoption." Through investment in the CCDS, MGH and BWH
leadership is actively building the technical capabilities and
industry relationships needed to lower these barriers and help
bring solutions to market.
“For AI algorithms to be useful to radiologists and patients, it
is critical that they are both clinically validated and accessible
through the existing reporting workflow,” said Keith Dreyer, DO,
PhD, FACR, FSIIM, Chief Data Science Officer, Partners HealthCare.
“Through this collaboration with Nuance, radiologists will be able
to access and leverage validated AI and deep learning algorithms
without leaving their preferred workflow. Partnerships like this
are a game changer given the time savings, increases in
productivity and improved quality outcomes enabled for radiology
staff.” “Partners understands that for deep learning technologies
to materially drive better patient outcomes and an enhanced
experience for radiologists, a truly scalable and more systematic
route to development, validation and adoption is required,” said
Karen Holzberger, Vice President and General Manager, Healthcare
Diagnostics, Nuance. “Through this collaboration, Nuance and
Partners are working to ensure the AI Marketplace delivers these
seamless and scalable capabilities within a nationwide network that
already connects to the majority of all radiologists, hospitals and
other key clinical system vendors in the US.”
To learn more about the Nuance AI Marketplace
for Diagnostic Imaging, download the whitepaper, “AI Access for
All: The power and promise of AI for radiology." Nuance will
demonstrate the AI Marketplace at the Healthcare Information
and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Meeting, at booth
#1143 at the Sands Expo Center, March 5 – 9, in Las Vegas.
About Nuance Healthcare Nuance provides
intelligent systems that support a more natural and insightful
approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend
more time caring for patients. Nuance’s healthcare solutions
capture, improve and communicate more than 300 million patient
stories each year, helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000
global healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and
financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech
recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality and
medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view
of patient care. About Nuance Communications,
Inc.Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of
voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around
the world. Its technologies, applications and services
make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way
people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of
users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven
applications. For more information, please
visit www.nuance.com.
About Partners HealthCare Partners HealthCare
is an integrated health system founded by Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to
its two academic medical centers, the Partners system includes
community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization,
community health centers, a physician network, home health and
long-term care services, and other health-related entities.
Partners is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research
organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical
School. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization.
About the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data
Science Founded in 2016, the MGH & BWH Center for
Clinical Data Science is a joint center formed by Massachusetts
General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital to transform
healthcare by translating the latest advances in artificial
intelligence (AI) into improved health outcomes and greater
operational efficiency. With deep academic research expertise,
access to significant computational power and data resources, and
extensive product development and industry experience, the CCDS is
uniquely positioned to improve the detection, diagnosis, treatment,
and management of diseases through the application and commercial
translation of AI techniques.
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