Healthcare's Long Road To Digitization Gets An AI Boost
CIO, Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
From ambient documentation to ML-based scheduling, healthcare CIOs are rolling out technologies that enable precision diagnostics, reduce clinician workloads, and automate back-office functions.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System had an enormous amount of anonymized patient data in its Penn Medicine BioBank, and SVP and CIO Michael Restuccia's team saw an opportunity to use it to benefit the research hospital's patients.
'We had a conversation about how to take some of the innovation occurring in research around AI and deploy it in the clinics,' he says. That led to the creation of an AI-based diagnostics tool that automates the assessment of the more than 500 images that a typical abdominal CT scan generates to help provide early diagnosis of hepatic steatosis, a condition more commonly known as fatty liver disease. Such systems can also help to prioritize which scans a radiologist should review first.