GE Healthcare’s New Imaging Tech & Intelligent Apps Unveiled at #RSNA19 will Deliver Hundreds of Millions in Cost Savings &...
December 01 2019 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
- Over the past year, GE Healthcare solutions have helped
healthcare systems achieve more than $250M in savings in the United
States alone
- With the goal of doubling these savings by 2025, the new
offerings will help drive clinical efficiency, enhance patient
comfort and improve workflow
GE Healthcare today launched more than 30 new, imaging
intelligent applications and smart devices designed to drive
efficiency in radiology departments, aiming to double productivity
and cost savings for systems by 2025. For healthcare executives,
the new offerings help systems to save costs, improve technology
utilization, and increase patient volumes. Clinicians also will
benefit from the new technologies through intuitive workflows,
improved diagnostic confidence and less rework, allowing them to
spend more time with patients.
Healthcare inefficiencies lead to nearly $1 trillion of annual
financial waste in the United States alone.1 Healthcare executives
report costs and transparency as their number one concern moving
into next year and need new solutions to help solve these
challenges.2 Recognizing the opportunity to reduce waste and
increase efficiency across the healthcare industry, GE Healthcare
is presenting the following new intelligent applications and smart
devices at the 105th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of
North America (RSNA).
- AIR™ Recon DL3, an Edison application providing True
Fidelity images, is a GE-first, deep-learning MRI reconstruction
technology application designed to improve signal-to-noise and
image sharpness and enable shorter scan times. Clinicians and
technologists would no longer have to compromise between image
quality and scan time with AIR Recon DL. This application was
developed using a neural network trained on tens of thousands of
images using GE’s Edison AI Platform.
- Critical Care Suite is an industry-first, FDA cleared
collection of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms embedded on a
mobile X-ray device for triage. Built in collaboration with
clinical partners, using GE Healthcare’s Edison platform, the AI
algorithms help reduce the turn-around time it can take for
radiologists to review a suspected pneumothorax, a type of
collapsed lung. Additionally, Critical Care Suite’s quality AI
algorithms help technologists reduce image quality errors and
improve efficiency by simultaneously auto rotating images as well
as analyzing and flagging protocol and field of view errors
on-device. The Intelligent Auto Rotate AI alone can save
highly-trained technologists at a medium to large size hospital
more than 70,000 manual clicks4 – that amounts to nearly 20 hours,
or three working days a year spent rotating chest images on
portable X-ray machines.
- Edison™ Open AI Orchestrator is designed to orchestrate
AI at scale for imaging workflows. The new Edison Open AI
Orchestrator simplifies the implementation, deployment, support and
scaling of multiple AI applications including from partners iCAD
and MaxQ. Designed to seamlessly integrate clinical applications
into the radiology PACS reading workflow, this offering reduces the
complexity of multiple systems and algorithms working together that
could lead to error and risk if implemented incorrectly.
- Revolution™Maxima with AI-Based Auto Positioning5
is a powerful, high performing and reliable CT that maximizes every
step of the CT workflow, from referral to report. Enabled with
AI-based Auto Positioning technology, Revolution Maxima uses
real-time depth sensing technology in order to generate a 3D model
of a patient’s body to pinpoint the center of the scan range and
automatically align it to the isocenter of the bore. Altogether, it
is designed to simplify, streamline and automate the entire CT
experience for one click, hands-free patient positioning.
- OEC Touch for OEC Elite CFDfeatures a new control panel
located right on the C-arm. During a variety of clinical
procedures, C-arm technicians often move back-and-forth between the
C-arm. While these movements are necessary, they can disrupt
surgical flow and cause inefficiencies and block the surgeon’s view
of the images during procedures. The new control panel, OEC Touch,
is designed to eliminate the need to move to a separate workstation
and reduce disruption during surgery. Accessible on a large,
high-resolution touch screen with recognizable OEC color-coded
icons, the OEC Touch features Live Zoom, Digital Pen, and
additional capabilities designed to efficiently capture and review
images during surgery.
- Embo ASSIST6 with Virtual Injection is an Edison
application designed to help clinicians perform complex
embolization procedures. This application is designed to allow
clinicians to analyze the vasculature and simulate injections
dynamically to help determine the embolization strategy to avoid
embolizing healthy tissues in the brain or prostate with just one
click. By leveraging data from GE Healthcare’s 3D CT HD images,
Embo ASSIST with Virtual Injection is designed to provide
clinicians with an intuitive solution to support clinical
decision-making and drive efficiency in the interventional suite,
thereby enabling precise, minimally invasive therapies.
- Clinical Command Centers are designed to improve
outcomes and efficiency with new real-time decision support tools
along with process improvement targeted using digital twins of
patient flow. Each Clinical Command Center features 5–20 decision
support apps or “Tiles” which are used systemwide as well as in the
command center to pinpoint opportunities to reduce length of stay,
increase imaging utilization, get ahead of patient bottlenecks or
issues and much more. All in near real-time and in some cases
predicting issues before they occur. Specific to radiology, the
Imaging Expediter Tile enables active management of imaging
utilization by prioritizing scans and identifying a range of
issues, such as missing labs, which could disrupt flow to
inpatients and outpatients. At Humber River Hospital in Toronto,
Canada, the Imaging Expediter Tile has helped inpatients receive
their imaging exams 16-27 percent faster depending on the modality,
and has contributed to a 52 percent reduction in excess inpatient
days. In the four years that Clinical Command Centers have been
operational, the toolkit has helped to deliver significant and
sustained measurable impact for hospitals in the United States,
Canada and the United Kingdom.
“Automation and smart technologies are not only the future of
medical imaging but are essential as departments look to transform
workflows and the patient experience,” said Dr. Vincent Lombard,
the first clinical adopter of Revolution™ Maxima with AI-based Auto
Positioning4, and a radiologist at Centre Imagery Jacques Callot.
“By integrating artificial intelligence into existing workflows
we’ve been able to not only improve scan quality and reduce steps,
but we’ve also been able to spend more time caring for
patients.”
Several of the new smart devices and intelligent applications
were developed using Edison, GE Healthcare’s secure intelligence
platform that helps both GE Healthcare developers and select
strategic partners to design, develop, manage, secure and
distribute advanced applications, services and AI algorithms
quickly. Updates to GE Healthcare’s portfolio follow the launch of
the Edison Developer Program which expands the Edison ecosystem to
accelerate the adoption and impact of advanced applications and
developer services across health systems. The Edison Developer
Program helps healthcare providers gain easier access to
market-ready algorithms and applications by directly integrating
these technologies into existing workflows.
“Now, more than ever, clinicians face tremendous pressure to
deliver optimal patient care and clinical outcomes with fewer
resources,” said Kieran Murphy, President and CEO of GE Healthcare.
“By integrating data, intelligent software applications, and smart
devices, we’re enabling clinicians to make faster, more informed
decisions to give them time with what matters most: their
patients.”
GE Healthcare is showcasing its efficiency-focused applications
and devices at RSNA in the South Hall, Booth 4133. The full GE
Healthcare RSNA 2019 press kit can be found here.
About GE Healthcare
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(NYSE: GE). As a leading provider of medical imaging, monitoring,
biomanufacturing, and cell and gene therapy technologies, GE
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and monitoring through intelligent devices, data analytics,
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Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking.
Any descriptions of future functionality reflect current product
direction, are for informational purposes only, and do not
constitute a commitment to provide specific functionality. Timing
and availability are subject to change and applicable regulatory
approvals.
1
https://www.medicaleconomics.com/news/new-study-estimates-us-healthcare-waste-costs-nearly-1-trillion-each-year
2
https://hitconsultant.net/2019/09/13/top-10-challenges-issues-and-opportunities-healthcare-executives-will-face-in-2020/#.XbChT-hKg2x
3 510(k) pending at FDA. Not available for sale in the United
States. 4 GE Healthcare Data on File. 5 510(k) pending at FDA. Not
available for sale in the United States. 6 Embo ASSIST solution
includes FlightPlan For Embolization, Vision 2, VesselIQ Xpress,
Autobone Xpress and requires AW workstation with Volume Viewer,
Volume Viewer Innova. These applications are sold separately.
FlightPlan for Embolization is 510(k) pending at FDA. Not available
for sale in the United States.
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