What You Should Know:
– GE HealthCare and DeepHealth, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RadNet, Inc. and a global leader in AI-powered health informatics, have announced their intention to significantly expand their existing strategic collaboration.
– This next phase focuses on advancing the innovation, commercialization, and adoption of AI across multiple imaging modalities.
Collaboration Focus Areas
The original initiative, announced in 2024, successfully united DeepHealth’s AI-powered breast cancer screening workflow solution with GE HealthCare’s Senographe Pristina
mammography system.
The expanded collaboration will now focus on three key areas:
- Global Access: Extending access to breast cancer solutions worldwide.
- Intelligent Clinical Support: Integrating GE HealthCare’s ultrasound imaging with DeepHealth’s AI-powered Thyroid Suite for enhanced decision support and reporting automation.
- Remote Care: Bringing DeepHealth’s TechLive remote scanning solution together with GE HealthCare’s ultrasound portfolio.
AI-Powered Ultrasound: Enhancing Diagnostic Confidence and Efficiency
Ultrasound imaging is notoriously dependent on the sonographer’s skill, and traditional thyroid workflows are burdened by time-consuming manual measurements and reporting. This challenge can strain staff and impact the patient experience.
The integration of the DeepHealth Thyroid Suite aims to solve these issues:
- Automation: The AI seamlessly automates nodule detection, characterization, and standardizing worksheets and reporting, helping radiologists and sonographers work more efficiently and consistently.
- Proven Efficiency: RadNet, a major imaging services provider, has demonstrated that the solution can lead to up to a 30% reduction in exam time due to increased workflow efficiency.
- Confidence: Radiologists accepted AI-generated reports in over 94% of cases, highlighting the system’s accuracy and reliability.
Karley Yoder, CEO of Comprehensive Care Ultrasound at GE HealthCare, expressed confidence: “We look forward to incorporating DeepHealth Thyroid Suite and TechLive into our ultrasound portfolio, and enhancing the capabilities of clinicians to make faster, more confident decisions…”.
TechLive: Expanding Access with Remote Connectivity
The partnership will also address accessibility and staffing constraints by featuring the planned distribution of DeepHealth’s TechLive remote scanning for use with GE HealthCare’s ultrasound products.
This combined solution empowers expert care teams to remotely perform or supervise ultrasound across multiple locations from a single, secure location. By enabling expert teams to guide sonographers in real-time, the solution helps improve access to high-quality ultrasound imaging regardless of geographic location or staffing limitations.
