GE Healthcare Accelerates AI Model Development & Deployment with Launch of Edison Integration to American College of Radiolog...
April 08 2019 - 9:31AM
Business Wire
- Edison AI platform will integrate with
ACR AI-LABTM, providing ACR members and other radiology
professionals with connectivity to valuable Edison AI services
- Among the 100+ GE Healthcare AI
developer services on Edison is a tool that tracks the source and
usage of data in AI development, simplifying radiologists’ ability
to create, validate and deploy compliant algorithms with partner
institutions
- Edison is the most holistic and
integrated digital platform in healthcare, combining globally
diverse data from across modalities, vendors, healthcare networks
and life sciences settings
GE Healthcare today announced Edison will integrate with ACR
AI-LAB. The Edison platform helps accelerate the development and
adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and empower
providers to deliver faster, more precise care. Edison serves as a
“digital thread” for GE Healthcare’s existing AI partnerships and
products, and by integrating with ACR AI-LAB, it will extend these
services and allow ACR members and other radiology professionals to
more easily develop and seamlessly deploy their algorithms across
hospitals and research centers nationally.
“ACR has been collaborating with industry, government and others
throughout healthcare to promote a thriving AI ecosystem targeted
towards patient and clinician needs,” said ACR DSI Chief Science
Officer Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR. “Standards, clinical pathways,
education and tools are all part of harnessing the potential of AI,
and ACR AI-LAB is an important step in that journey. ACR welcomes
GE Healthcare’s announcement to integrate with ACR AI-LAB,
furthering our mutual goals of improved patient outcomes.”
The healthcare AI market will reach $6.6 billion in 2021, and 39
percent of healthcare provider executives say that they’re
investing in AI, machine learning and predictive analytics. GE
Healthcare supports the ACR’s mission to democratize AI and
accelerate AI adoption to improve patient outcomes and take costs
and variance out of healthcare. By supporting the ACR community’s
AI efforts, GE Healthcare can dramatically increase the number of
algorithms created and deployed across Edison-powered devices and
Edison applications. By offering seamless AI services on device,
edge and cloud, Edison also allows each member of the community to
participate in the manner that best supports their IT
environment.
“AI gives us an opportunity to see patterns that we don't see
and change the way we care for patients, which can ultimately
improve outcomes, said Dr. Rachael Callcut, a partner in GE
Healthcare’s clinical AI development, Associate Professor of
Surgery at UCSF, a surgeon at UCSF Health and Director of Data
Science for the Center for Digital Health Innovation. “We
collaborated with GE Healthcare and their network of multiple
hospitals from around the globe to co-develop and validate the
X-ray Critical Care Suite* enabled by the Edison AI Services cloud
platform.”
Since Edison’s launch in November 2018, GE Healthcare has
received FDA clearance for multiple Edison powered devices, such as
AIRx, an AI-based, automated workflow tool for MRI brain scanning
designed to increase consistency and productivity, and Women’s
Health Ultrasound SonoCNS, which automates the process of measuring
the fetal brain by aligning the system automatically.
“We want to see these technologies work for radiologists, and
what that implies is that they have to work within the workflows
that exist today,” said Dr. Mark Michalski, Executive Director, MGH
& BWH Center for Clinical Data Science. “AI needs to be not
only an interesting tool in an academic pursuit but also something
that really works and helps us practice our profession better.”
Edison allows data to be traced during the development of an
algorithm, which reflects GE Healthcare’s commitment to safe,
ethical and effective use of AI, and could radically simplify the
ACR community’s ability to create compliant AI applications.
Edison’s clinical data aggregation services enable radiologists to
combine multiparametric data sets and clinical information from the
EHR to create more accurate algorithms. The AI capabilities are
just one set of the more than 100 Edison services available to GE
Healthcare and ultimately third-party developers.
“Making the vision of the ACR AI-LAB a reality requires the
collaboration of industry leaders like GE Healthcare and NVIDIA,”
said Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare at NVIDIA.
"Working together, NVIDIA and GE Healthcare will empower
radiologists to use AI models at their own institutions, in their
medical devices and workflow applications, on the edge and in cloud
– all while protecting the privacy of their patients."
For hospital executives, the Edison platform integration to ACR
AI-LAB allows GE Healthcare to add continuous value to its millions
of installed medical devices with smart workflows. Clinicians who
use Edison applications can be assured that the algorithms were
developed with and validated by a best-in-class ecosystem of
clinical and technology partners. Developers who use Edison will
benefit from a common integrated platform that brings together
globally diverse data from across modalities, vendors and care
settings, dramatically simplifying the transition from AI research
to productive AI usage.
“Edison provides clinicians with an integrated digital platform,
combining diverse data sets from across modalities, vendors,
healthcare networks and life sciences settings,” said Kieran
Murphy, President and CEO of GE Healthcare. “Algorithms built on
Edison by our ACR colleagues will include the latest data
processing technologies to enable clinicians to make faster, more
informed decisions to improve patient outcomes.”
GE Healthcare will highlight its Edison AI platform, partnership
ecosystem, and the company’s guiding principles for AI development
and deployment at the World Medical Innovation Forum in Boston on
April 8 - 9, 2019.
About GE Healthcare:
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and monitoring through intelligent devices, data analytics,
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