CHICAGO – There was plenty of talk at the annual RSNA conference about the growing importance of business intelligence and analytics (BIA) as technologies that can solve problems in the here and now. Unfortunately, on this front, healthcare may be well behind the times. “We as an industry are laggards,” commented Dr. Paul Chang (pictured), professor of radiology at the University of Chicago. “We’re still talking about dashboards and scorecards, as if it’s the 1990s.”
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TORONTO – Bialogics announced that as of May 2018, North York General Hospital (NYGH) will be implementing the Bialogics DImax Radiology Analytics solution as its analytics platform for Diagnostic Imaging.
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Real Time Medical, of Mississauga, Ont., has announced a partnership with Google that not only positions the Real Time Medical platform on the Google Cloud, but also creates a working partnership to create new, AI-driven solutions for clinicians in Canada and worldwide.
Real Time Medical is the creator of a peer-review, quality and education system for radiologists and other clinicians. The solution checks the quality of the readings done by radiologists and other specialists by sharing a portion of their work among a group of peers on the Real Time Medical network.
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LAS VEGAS – St. Michael’s Hospital, in Toronto, has created a business intelligence (BI) and forecasting tool that enables the acute-care centre to answer questions in just two hours, down from the three to five days it took previously.
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TORONTO – Quality and safety can be improved through the use of tools like business intelligence and analytics, but you need to “democratize” the data, so that everyone is on board across the organization.
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TORONTO – Humber River Hospital announced the opening of its Star Trek-like Command Centre with an auditorium full of visiting luminaries in attendance – including GE’s CEO John Flannery, two Ontario government cabinet ministers, and doctors and administrators from 13 U.S. hospitals who came to learn about the AI-powered centre.
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OTTAWA – Four hospitals in the Ottawa area are using live-streaming analytic feeds from paramedics to keep an eye on the volume of patients headed to their emergency rooms. The systems will also show when it’s taking too long for paramedics to be redeployed after dropping off a patient.
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OTTAWA – The Canadian government will soon hire an Ottawa-based company specializing in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence to forecast potential spikes in suicide risk. A contract with Advanced Symbolics Inc., an AI and market research firm, is set to be finalized next month.
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ORLANDO, FLA. – While IBM and its Watson Health division have been vocal about their plans to transform healthcare through Deep Learning, NantHealth has been quietly assembling its own platform that uses artificial intelligence to combat one of mankind’s worst healthcare problems – the scourge of cancer.
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OSHAWA, ONT. – In summer 2016, we were excited to announce a new $3 million project to develop a market-ready version of Artemis to be used at bedside by clinicians. This will initially be deployed at our new partner hospital Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ont., with support from my long-time research partner IBM Canada.
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CHICAGO – There was plenty of talk at the annual RSNA conference about the growing importance of business intelligence and analytics (BIA) as technologies that can solve problems in the here and now. Unfortunately, on this front, healthcare may be well behind the times. “We as an industry are laggards,” commented Dr. Paul Chang (pictured), professor of radiology at the University of Chicago. “We’re still talking about dashboards and scorecards, as if it’s the 1990s.”
Read More
TORONTO – Bialogics announced that as of May 2018, North York General Hospital (NYGH) will be implementing the Bialogics DImax Radiology Analytics solution as its analytics platform for Diagnostic Imaging.
OTTAWA – Four hospitals in the Ottawa area are using live-streaming analytic feeds from paramedics to keep an eye on the volume of patients headed to their emergency rooms. The systems will also show when it’s taking too long for paramedics to be redeployed after dropping off a patient.
OTTAWA – The Canadian government will soon hire an Ottawa-based company specializing in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence to forecast potential spikes in suicide risk. A contract with Advanced Symbolics Inc., an AI and market research firm, is set to be finalized next month.