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Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | October 14, 2024
GE HealthCare has collaborated with Blackford to integrate the company's AI-enabled application platform with its True PACS and Centricity PACS. The goal is to help radiologists make faster diagnoses while reducing their risk of burnout.
"AI applications in medical imaging could significantly alleviate radiologist burnout by automating routine tasks, such as image analysis and reporting, thereby allowing radiologists to focus on more complex cases," Ludovic d’Apréa, CEO of Solutions for Enterprise Imaging at GE HealthCare, told HCB News. "These advanced tools could help enhance diagnostic accuracy and speed, reducing the time spent on each case and mitigating the potential of errors."
An RSNA survey from 2022 questioned 13,000 radiologists and found that 49% of them were experiencing burnout — the main cause of that being excessive bureaucratic tasks. In addition, a third of them complained of excessive work hours and lack of autonomy over their lives.
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GE HealthCare is aiming to tackle this issue with AI. d’Apréa explained that AI-driven workflow optimization ensures a balanced workload, which ultimately leads to better job satisfaction, overall efficiency, and an improvement in the quality of patient care.
Through this collaboration, radiologists who use True PACS and Centricity PACS will have access to an AI-enabled platform filled with third-party AI applications for modalities such as MR, ultrasound, PET, CT, X-ray, and mammography. Altogether, Blackford has a portfolio of over 135 contracted AI solutions across more than 50 partner vendors.
"Blackford is well-known in the healthcare industry for its application orchestration platform, and has multiple offerings for imaging applications and AI algorithms that help improve radiology workflow and diagnostic outcomes," said d’Apréa. "We’ve been working closely with them for the past couple of years and are excited to have this offering available now to our GE HealthCare customers."
These radiologists will essentially have a single point for accessing clinical applications that can assist them as they interpret imaging for subspecialties including neurology, thoracic, cardiology, MSK, body, breast, and pediatric.
GE HealthCare will have this technology on display at the RSNA annual meeting in Chicago starting December 1.
