IBM Watson Health | Imaging
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Watson Health provides innovative imaging solutions to improve the healthcare experience for patients and providers, including full solution suites for specialties such as radiology, cardiology, orthopedics, and enterprise systems to create image and data interoperability. Check out all the Imaging categorized articles for the Watson Health Perspectives blog.
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
2y ago
The use of advanced analytics and AI in healthcare continues to evolve rapidly. A recent survey found one-third of healthcare organizations already use AI in medical imaging, with another one-third of respondents saying they would within the next two years.1
TriHealth, a leading healthcare provider in the Cincinnati area, is an early adopter of AI. TriHealth partnered with IBM Watson Health for this journey. Dr. Francis Schlueter, Radiology Systems Chief and President of Tristate IMG (Imaging Medical Group), has been one of the clinical leaders pioneering this work at TriHealth.
I recently tal ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
This bylined article first appeared on Diagnostic Imaging on June 10, 2021, republished in part with permission.
“If we told clinicians, ‘we will use advanced math to help you improve care,’ they would probably be fine with it. But the term ‘artificial intelligence’ raises natural skepticism about what it really means.” – Mark D. Weisman, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Information Officer, TidalHealth
“First, do no harm” is a promise many of us make when becoming clinicians. To me it means that, for as long as I practice medicine, I must carefully weigh the risks and benefits of my decisions for patie ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
Some of you remember the old days – the smell of dark room chemicals, quiet of massive film libraries, and presence of office managers surrounded by towering stacks of film jackets. The Cardiovascular Picture Archive and Communication Systems (CPACS) revolutionized images and workflows, enabling software to help cardiology store and access appropriate files. They also set the industry on a path that would lead to Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS).
It all started when Cardiology had to address several challenges to decommission film and video and move into the digital world of CPACS. Wh ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
More than ever, healthcare providers are in the thick of trying to solve today’s problems and prepare for tomorrow. Small practices and large systems alike are struggling with a constant increase in the volume and type of data that they must ingest, curate, analyze, govern, share and archive – all while trying to modernize their technology infrastructures, deal with cost containment challenges, mitigate potential data security and privacy issues, on top of ensuring patients receive high-quality patient care.
We recently earned KLAS recognition for several of our enterprise imaging solutions. T ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
Radiology has always been on the cutting edge of technology in medicine, and artificial intelligence (AI) has made some progress within this specialty. But AI is at an inflection point. To make use of AI as a more accessible, trusted reality, radiology will need six critical components:
1) Reassurance that AI will never replace a physician
With the growing body of evidence that shows the extraordinary potential of AI in healthcare, I find it interesting that widespread adoption remains slow. Although I hear multiple reasons for the reluctance of radiologists to embrace AI, one of the most comm ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
Surgery requires teamwork and preparation. There must be tight collaboration among clinicians – with the surgeon replying upon timely and accurate contributions from radiologists, primary care providers, pathologists and many others. Technology should augment their efforts and offer new insights from data that enable them to deliver optimal patient care.
Early studies demonstrate that 3D printing is well integrated in surgical practice and numerous early studies suggest advantages that include reduced surgical time, improved medical outcome and decreased radiation exposure.1
Clinical 3D printi ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
What is the cost of fragmented data in imaging? It’s difficult to quantify, but most health systems recognize the value of a more comprehensive approach – an enterprise imaging system – to help them overcome the challenges caused by siloed imaging systems.
Some organizations may think they’ve achieved an enterprise imaging system once they’ve integrated radiology and cardiology images into a single Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). But what about other patient imaging data throughout the enterprise, such as from endoscopies, wound care, dermatology or images from dozens of oth ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
Pandemics take a toll on mental health. One study of evidence from previous epidemics – such as SARS, influenza and Ebola – found that they have long-term cognitive and mental health effects on the general population.1
Then I read a study that hit closer to home for me, as a radiologist; during the COVID-19 outbreak, a survey in April of 2020 found that one-third of radiologists showed symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia.2 Radiologists working in private practices were more strongly affected than those in public hospitals. Authors of the study suggest that these radiologists were more ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
The pandemic has disrupted life as we know it, and the field of radiology is no exception. To hear more about some of today’s biggest challenges and opportunities for radiologists, I recently talked with my friend and colleague, Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR, President, American College of Radiology (ACR). Here are highlights from that discussion, edited lightly for length and clarity:
Q. You’ve assumed leadership of the ACR at an interesting time – how have the clinical and financial imperatives for radiologists changed over the past several months?
Dr. McGinty: ACR has been recognized as ..read more
IBM Watson Health | Imaging
3y ago
One of the key advantages artificial intelligence (AI) brings to medical imaging is its ability to transform images into numbers. The concept and use of quantitative imaging has reached prevalence over the past few years by enabling computers to do more than just display digital images. Numerical measurements such as volume, dimension, shape, growth rate and more can be extracted from imaging data, placed into databases and analyzed to reveal anomalies, patterns, relationships and insights that strictly qualitative, human analysis might not.
But how does AI support this process? What AI princi ..read more