GE HealthCare and RadNet Forge Collaboration to Transform Imaging Systems and Accelerate the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with SmartTechnology™
GE HealthCare (GEHC) and RadNet's DeepHealth (RDNT) have announced a strategic collaboration to advance AI in medical imaging. The partnership will combine GE HealthCare's imaging expertise with RadNet's DeepHealth AI solutions to develop SmartTechnology™ solutions. Their first initiative integrates DeepHealth's AI-powered SmartMammo™ with GE's Senographe Pristina™ mammography system to enhance breast cancer screening. The collaboration includes Smart Alerts, aimed at enabling rapid AI processing for potentially suspicious lesions. GE HealthCare will distribute SmartMammo and other DeepHealth solutions in the United States, with plans to explore additional AI-based workflows in other imaging modalities.
GE HealthCare (GEHC) e RadNet's DeepHealth (RDNT) hanno annunciato una collaborazione strategica per avanzare nell'AI nell'imaging medico. Il partenariato unirà l'esperienza nell'imaging di GE HealthCare con le soluzioni AI di DeepHealth di RadNet per sviluppare soluzioni SmartTechnology™. La loro prima iniziativa integra l'AI potenziata di DeepHealth SmartMammo™ con il sistema di mammografia Senographe Pristina™ di GE per migliorare lo screening del cancro al seno. La collaborazione include Smart Alerts, mirati a consentire un'elaborazione rapida dell'AI per lesioni potenzialmente sospette. GE HealthCare distribuirà SmartMammo e altre soluzioni DeepHealth negli Stati Uniti, con piani per esplorare ulteriori flussi di lavoro basati sull'AI in altre modalità di imaging.
GE HealthCare (GEHC) y RadNet's DeepHealth (RDNT) han anunciado una colaboración estratégica para avanzar en la IA en la imagen médica. La asociación combinará la experiencia en imágenes de GE HealthCare con las soluciones de IA de DeepHealth de RadNet para desarrollar soluciones SmartTechnology™. Su primera iniciativa integra la SmartMammo™ impulsada por IA de DeepHealth con el sistema de mamografía Senographe Pristina™ de GE para mejorar la detección del cáncer de mama. La colaboración incluye Smart Alerts, con el objetivo de permitir un procesamiento rápido de la IA para lesiones potencialmente sospechosas. GE HealthCare distribuirá SmartMammo y otras soluciones de DeepHealth en los Estados Unidos, con planes de explorar flujos de trabajo adicionales basados en IA en otras modalidades de imagen.
GE HealthCare (GEHC)와 RadNet의 DeepHealth (RDNT)가 의료 이미징에서 AI를 발전시키기 위한 전략적 협력을 발표했습니다. 이번 파트너십은 GE HealthCare의 이미징 전문성과 RadNet의 DeepHealth AI 솔루션을 결합하여 SmartTechnology™ 솔루션을 개발합니다. 그들의 첫 번째 이니셔티브는 DeepHealth의 AI 기반 SmartMammo™를 GE의 Senographe Pristina™ 유방 촬영 시스템과 통합하여 유방암 검사를 개선하는 것입니다. 이 협력에는 의심스러운 병변에 대한 신속한 AI 처리를 가능하게 하는 Smart Alerts가 포함됩니다. GE HealthCare는 미국에서 SmartMammo 및 기타 DeepHealth 솔루션을 배포할 예정이며, 다른 이미징 모달리티에서 AI 기반 워크플로우를 탐색할 계획입니다.
GE HealthCare (GEHC) et DeepHealth de RadNet (RDNT) ont annoncé une collaboration stratégique pour faire progresser l'intelligence artificielle dans l'imagerie médicale. Ce partenariat combinera l'expertise en imagerie de GE HealthCare avec les solutions d'IA de DeepHealth de RadNet pour développer des solutions SmartTechnology™. Leur première initiative intègre SmartMammo™ alimenté par l'IA de DeepHealth avec le système de mammographie Senographe Pristina™ de GE pour améliorer le dépistage du cancer du sein. La collaboration comprend des Smart Alerts, visant à permettre un traitement rapide par IA des lésions potentiellement suspectes. GE HealthCare distribuera SmartMammo et d'autres solutions DeepHealth aux États-Unis, avec des plans pour explorer des flux de travail supplémentaires basés sur l'IA dans d'autres modalités d'imagerie.
GE HealthCare (GEHC) und RadNet's DeepHealth (RDNT) haben eine strategische Zusammenarbeit zur Förderung von KI in der medizinischen Bildgebung angekündigt. Die Partnerschaft wird das Imaging-Wissen von GE HealthCare mit den KI-Lösungen von RadNet's DeepHealth kombinieren, um SmartTechnology™ Lösungen zu entwickeln. Ihre erste Initiative integriert die KI-gestützte SmartMammo™ von DeepHealth mit GE's Senographe Pristina™ Mammographie-System, um das Screening auf Brustkrebs zu verbessern. Die Zusammenarbeit umfasst Smart Alerts, die eine schnelle KI-Verarbeitung potenziell verdächtiger Läsionen ermöglichen sollen. GE HealthCare wird SmartMammo und andere DeepHealth-Lösungen in den Vereinigten Staaten vertreiben und plant, weitere KI-basierte Workflows in anderen Bildgebungsmodalitäten zu erkunden.
- Strategic partnership combines GE HealthCare's imaging expertise with RadNet's AI capabilities
- Distribution agreement allows RadNet's solutions to reach GE HealthCare's U.S. market network
- Integration of SmartMammo with Senographe Pristina enhances diagnostic capabilities
- Cloud-native architecture enables seamless updates and maintenance without downtime
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This strategic collaboration between GE HealthCare and RadNet's DeepHealth marks a significant advancement in medical imaging AI integration. The partnership combines GE's established imaging hardware expertise with DeepHealth's advanced AI capabilities, particularly in mammography screening. The SmartMammo™ integration with GE's Senographe Pristina™ system represents a substantial market opportunity, targeting the growing
The cloud-native architecture and AI-powered workflow solutions offer multiple revenue streams through software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, providing recurring revenue potential for both companies. The Smart Alerts feature could significantly reduce diagnostic waiting times and improve patient outcomes, potentially leading to increased market adoption and revenue growth. The U.S. distribution agreement through GE HealthCare's established channels should accelerate market penetration and scale.
This partnership positions RDNT strategically in the growing AI healthcare market. With GE HealthCare's extensive distribution network and market presence, RadNet gains significant leverage to scale its DeepHealth AI solutions. The collaboration addresses critical market needs:
- Workflow efficiency improvements in radiology departments
- Enhanced clinical accuracy in breast cancer screening
- Reduced healthcare costs through AI-powered automation
The potential for expanding into other imaging modalities beyond mammography presents substantial growth opportunities. The cloud-based SaaS model ensures scalable deployment and recurring revenue streams, which could positively impact RDNT's long-term valuation metrics.
- Collaboration will leverage GE HealthCare’s legacy and scale of imaging innovation and RadNet’s DeepHealth AI-powered clinical and workflow solutions to further the innovation, commercialization, and adoption of AI in imaging.
- Together, GE HealthCare and RadNet’s DeepHealth aim to create SmartTechnology™ solutions that harness the power of AI to help redefine radiology workflows and address key challenges across the imaging value chain to improve speed, clinical accuracy, operational efficiency, and elevate patient care.
- To demonstrate the promise of this strategic relationship, the collaboration will first work to bring together DeepHealth’s AI-powered SmartMammo™ 1 solution with GE HealthCare’s patient-centric Senographe Pristina™ mammography system to enhance the way women receive breast care.
- The two companies intend to explore additional areas of collaboration to further expand the access and impact of AI-based workflows in other imaging modalities.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) and DeepHealth, Inc., a global leader in AI-powered health informatics and a wholly-owned subsidiary of RadNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: RDNT), announced a strategic collaboration to further the innovation, commercialization, and adoption of AI in imaging. Together, the two companies aim to develop SmartTechnology™ solutions that harness the transformative power of AI to address key challenges across the imaging value chain, including helping increase the efficiency of imaging interpretation and reporting, enabling collaboration across care teams, improving the clinical interpretation of images, and enhancing operational efficiency and productivity. These new SmartTechnology solutions will seek to combine GE HealthCare’s imaging expertise and scale, RadNet’s deep experience in care delivery, and DeepHealth’s AI-powered health informatics portfolio to elevate patient care through improved end-to-end clinical and operational workflows.
With the global cancer burden continuing to rise,2 health systems face increasing challenges and seek solutions to enhance early detection and diagnosis when treatment can be most effective. To help address these challenges and demonstrate the promise of this strategic relationship, the two companies will first work to bring together DeepHealth’s AI-based SmartMammo™ 1 workflow and clinical solution and GE HealthCare’s patient-centric Senographe Pristina™ mammography system to add AI-powered clinical imaging support to breast cancer screening.
GE HealthCare’s Senographe Pristina mammography system was designed to ease anxiety the moment the patient enters the exam room. It features an inviting gantry with elegant lighting and rounded shapes, as well as a soft-curved surface that welcomes patients into a space of comfort and support – with
RadNet’s DeepHealth SmartMammo is an AI-powered SaaS solution designed to seamlessly integrate into existing breast cancer diagnostic workflows, enhancing diagnostic accuracy4 and workflow efficiency. By embedding imaging informatics into advanced mammography systems, the solution can support high-volume breast cancer screening programs. The SmartMammo offering will work to prioritize cases based on suspicion level and ensure seamless integration and interoperability with existing healthcare IT infrastructure.
SmartMammo includes: 1) a cloud-native smart enterprise image viewer with PACS functionality that enables fast image loading and real-time data rendering of multimodality images, accessible from any workstation and location, 2) integration with radiologist worklists and reporting tools to streamline the workflow, and 3) a suite of clinical AI detection tools that offers automatic lesion localization and degree of suspicion that are effective in diverse populations and dense breast tissue. 1, 4 The cloud-native architecture of the DeepHealth OS powering SmartMammo simplifies support and maintenance while allowing for seamless feature updates and functionality enhancements without any downtime.
Through this collaboration, the two companies also seek to include Smart Alerts, a DeepHealth workflow solution to be integrated with Senographe Pristina that will utilize rapid AI processing with the goal of alerting imaging sites to cases with potentially suspicious lesions in minutes. This kind of solution aims to empower same-day diagnostic exams, follow-up compliance, and reduced anxiety for women with potentially suspicious findings.
"We are thrilled to collaborate with GE HealthCare to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered technologies in radiology," said Kees Wesdorp, President and CEO of RadNet’s Digital Health division. "By combining our pioneering cloud-native operating system, DeepHealth OS, and our AI-powered health informatics portfolio with GE HealthCare’s cutting-edge imaging technology, we are poised to revolutionize large-scale diagnostic and screening programs, streamline radiology workflows, and improve patient outcomes. This collaboration aims to empower healthcare providers with the tools they need to deliver more effective and personalized care at scale."
“GE HealthCare has a legacy of imaging and AI innovation and is committed to our continued pursuit of new technologies that push the boundaries of what is possible to enable precision care. This new collaboration with DeepHealth harnesses our combined strengths to address critical challenges in healthcare today,” explained Roland Rott, President & Chief Executive Officer of Imaging for GE HealthCare. “As we look to make more personalized, patient-centered breast care a reality – AI continues to show great promise in breast cancer screening from early detection and risk prediction, to reduced callbacks and more efficient workflows for breast imaging providers. We are excited to bring the power of imaging and AI together to elevate personalized breast care for those facing this difficult diagnosis.”
The two companies’ agreement will enable GE Healthcare to distribute SmartMammo and other DeepHealth solutions to imaging providers in the United States as part of GE HealthCare’s comprehensive portfolio of imaging technologies.
In addition to collaborating on SmartMammo, GE HealthCare and RadNet’s DeepHealth intend to explore areas of further collaboration for SmartTechnology solutions in other modalities and clinical domains, to expand the access to and impact of AI-based workflows.
For more information, visit the GE HealthCare (#7330) and DeepHealth (#1340) booths at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 Annual Meeting.
About GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.
GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, dedicated to providing integrated solutions, services, and data analytics to make hospitals more efficient, clinicians more effective, therapies more precise, and patients healthier and happier. Serving patients and providers for more than 125 years, GE HealthCare is advancing personalized, connected, and compassionate care, while simplifying the patient’s journey across the care pathway. Together our Imaging, Advanced Visualization Solutions, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics businesses help improve patient care from diagnosis, to therapy, to monitoring. We are a
About RadNet, Inc.
RadNet, Inc. is the leading national provider of freestanding, fixed-site diagnostic imaging services in the United States based on the number of locations and annual imaging revenue. RadNet has a network of 398 owned and/or operated outpatient imaging centers. RadNet’s markets include Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Texas. In addition, RadNet provides radiology information technology and artificial intelligence solutions marketed under the DeepHealth brand, teleradiology professional services and other related products and services to customers in the diagnostic imaging industry. Together with affiliated radiologists, and inclusive of full-time and per diem employees and technologists, RadNet has a total of over 10,000 employees. For more information, visit http://www.radnet.com.
About DeepHealth
DeepHealth is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RadNet, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDNT) and serves as the umbrella brand for all companies within RadNet's Digital Health segment. DeepHealth provides AI-powered health informatics with the aim of empowering breakthroughs in care through imaging. Building on the strengths of the companies it has integrated and is rebranding (i.e., eRAD Radiology Information and Image Management Systems and Picture Archiving and Communication System, Aidence lung AI, DeepHealth and Kheiron breast AI and Quantib prostate and brain AI), DeepHealth leverages advanced AI for operational efficiency and improved clinical outcomes in lung, breast, prostate, and brain health. At the heart of DeepHealth’s portfolio is a cloud-native operating system - DeepHealth OS - that unifies data across the clinical and operational workflow and personalizes AI-powered workspaces for everyone in the radiology continuum. Thousands of radiologists at hundreds of imaging centers and radiology departments around the world use DeepHealth solutions to enable earlier, more reliable, and more efficient disease detection, including in large-scale cancer screening programs. DeepHealth’s human-centered, intuitive technology aims to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. https://deephealth.com/
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1 510(k) pending for use with GE HealthCare.
2 https://www.who.int/news/item/01-02-2024-global-cancer-burden-growing--amidst-mounting-need-for-services
3 Data on file, GE Healthcare.
4 Kim et al. Impact of a Categorical AI System for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis on Breast Cancer Interpretation by Both General Radiologists and Breast Imaging Specialists. Radiol Artif Intell. 2024. doi: 10.1148/ryai.230137.
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