- GE Healthcare to make imaging applications, healthcare
workflows, and data and analytics more accessible to benefit
medical professionals, AI developers, and patients
- Helps the healthcare industry transition to a virtualized and
distributed care model by offering its AI-based imaging
applications and Edison Health Services platform* on AWS
- Edison Health Services platform creates an easy way for
clinicians to derive and manage insights from the 3.6 billion
imaging procedures and 50 petabytes of data1 produced by
hospitals every year
GE Healthcare announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon
Web Services (AWS) to deliver AI and cloud-based imaging solutions,
integrated data, and clinical and operational insights to hospitals
and healthcare providers. GE Healthcare plans to offer its AI-based
imaging applications and Edison Health Services platform* on AWS, a
move that positions the company to lead the way in helping to
transition healthcare providers globally from the traditional care
delivery model provided in the hospital setting to a more
decentralized model that is virtual and distributed. This trend was
accelerated by the pandemic, and the transformation is enabled by
the cloud.
An overwhelming majority of physicians say that access to the
right data at the right time will help them improve care.2
Currently, hospitals perform 3.6 billion imaging procedures and
produce 50 petabytes of data a year worldwide (97% of that goes
unused). Clinicians need analytics that help generate clinical,
operational, and financial insights providing them with a more
holistic view of the patient to further support precision health.
GE Healthcare’s Edison Health Services platform will give hospital
customers the ability to integrate and assimilate significant
amounts of data from disparate sources using the cloud with an aim
toward increasing clinical efficiency and productivity and helping
clinicians improve patient care.
“As the world moves towards a more virtualized and distributed
care delivery model with home care, remote patient management, and
increased use of AI, radiologists and other clinicians need easy
access to data that is seamlessly integrated, aggregated, and
visualized in applications and services across modalities and
within their existing workflows,” said Amit Phadnis, Chief Digital
Officer at GE Healthcare. “By doing this at scale, we are helping
to drive clinical outcomes and achieving our goals of transforming
healthcare to be more efficient and personalized.”
GE Healthcare aims to help providers scale their ability to
securely and compliantly aggregate all healthcare data types and
formats to extract insights, while providing easier access to
regulatory cleared AI algorithms and applications by integrating
them into existing workflows - breaking down data silos and
supporting healthcare providers in their pursuit of delivering the
best care possible.
“This is an exciting opportunity to combine the forces of GE
Healthcare and AWS to help customers improve patient care. Hosting
patient data in proven applications, coupled with advanced
analytics and AI, leveraging the most secure, reliable and agile
cloud, will enable care givers to deliver better and more
personalized experiences for their patients,” said Dr. Rowland
Illing, Director, International Public Sector Health at AWS.
The first AI-enabled imaging solution to be available on the AWS
offering from this collaboration is GE Healthcare’s Edison
TruePACS,3 Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS). This
medical imaging storage system provides hospitals with an
AI-enabled, diagnostic imaging cloud solution, and a low cost,
secure alternative to help improve access to care and deliver
clinical insights.
In addition, GE Healthcare will offer its Edison data
aggregation and AI analytics platform on AWS to help developers
access the platform, making it easier to build, test, and validate
new AI models, while facilitating the adoption of novel
applications into clinical workflows. The company also plans to
make additional products within its imaging portfolio available on
AWS including AI-based advanced image processing applications that
radiologists use
Upgrading PACS systems has traditionally been a slow and
expensive undertaking for hospitals and imaging centers. Leveraging
a cloud-based PACS solution will reduce the need for complicated
and lengthy PACS upgrades in the future and help to ensure that
radiologists always have the latest tools to benefit their patients
while ultimately lowering the total cost of ownership, and keeping
pace with the growing workloads and complexity that occurs within
the hospital.
“By allowing GE Healthcare and AWS to handle the backups and
duplication of the data, we can reduce our backup workload on site
while knowing our data is secure,” said Richard Duemmling, Chief of
Business Operations at Neuro Imaging in Winter Park, Florida. “From
our perspective, this presents an opportunity for significant
savings by eliminating the costs associated with onsite hosting and
data storage.”
GE Healthcare will enable hospitals and imaging centers to adopt
cloud and hybrid (cloud and on-premises) implementations, thereby
offering full deployment flexibility as healthcare providers
accelerate their journey to the cloud.
With more than 200 digital and image-based applications, GE
Healthcare is a leading vendor of AI-enabled medical imaging
applications worldwide.4 The company manages over four million
devices and creates more than two billion scans each year.
*Edison Health Services is GE Healthcare’s secure intelligence
platform, which helps healthcare providers aggregate across
different data types in healthcare in order to extract insights,
while also providing easier access to market-ready algorithms and
applications by directly integrating them seamlessly into existing
workflows.
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare is the $18 billion healthcare business of GE
(NYSE: GE). As a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical
diagnostics and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables
clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through
intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services,
supported by its Edison intelligence platform. With over 100 years
of healthcare industry experience and around 47,000 employees
globally, the company operates at the center of an ecosystem
working toward precision health, digitizing healthcare, helping
drive productivity and improve outcomes for patients, providers,
health systems and researchers around the world.
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1
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/four-ways-data-is-improving-healthcare/
2
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/google-cloud-study-finds-overwhelming-physician-support-interoperability-efforts
3 Edison True PACS solution on AWS is currently only available
in the United States
4 Signify Research LTD, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
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