Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

Philips to distribute Corindus robotic-assisted PCI system

Royal Philips Electronics and Corindus Vascular Robotics have signed a U.S. distribution agreement for Corindus CorPath 200 system, the recently FDA-approved robotic-assisted system to be used during PCI procedures.

Study: Remote robot assistance makes ICU docs happy

Nearly 90 percent of physicians who use rolling robots to remotely treat patients in the ICU do so without additional compensationyet a strong majority, 66 percent, consider the technology a blessing. None perceive such remote presence as a pure burden and, while 33 percent see it as a mixed blessing and burden, fully 100 percent intend to continue using it.

InTouch robots cleared for high-acuity patient monitoring

The FDA has expanded its clearance of InTouch Healths remote-presence monitors to allow use of the telemedicine technology in a number of acute-care environments.

Report: Cultural, reimbursement barriers thwart robotic telemed adoption

Licensing, costs for technology and reimbursement for robotic telemedicine continue to impede progress, according to an article published in the January/February edition of Telemedicine and e-Health.

Study: Robotic telemedicine in NICU feasible, safe

A remote-controlled, robotic telemedicine system in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is feasible and safe, according to a research published in the May editiion of Journal of Perinatology.

Study: Medical robotics industry will hit $1.3B in 2016

Advances in robotic capabilities, combined with the improving economic environment for medical services delivery and payments, are driving demand for surgical, assistive and telemedicine-based robots, according to ABI Research.

Philips, Hansen integrate x-ray, robotic catheter for cardiac arrhythmias

Royal Philips Electronics and Hansen Medical have agreed to co-develop integrated products that may simplify cardiac procedures to diagnose and treat cardiac arrhythmias.

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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