Microsoft The company announced it has partnered with Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and its health system, UW Health, to research and innovate advanced multimodal AI-based models specific to radiology and develop the Medical Imaging Copilot application.
Massachusetts General Hospital at the Brigham, Washington University School of Medicine and Public Health and Washington University Health are working with Microsoft to explore how applications and algorithms can help radiologists interpret medical images, write reports, analyze data and classify diseases.
Partners will explore bringing real-world use cases to clinical workflows, such as through Microsoft’s Nuance PowerScribe radiology reporting platform, to create a range of medical imaging applications.
The application is built on Microsoft’s Azure AI platform and extends Microsoft’s Nuance radiology application.
“Generative AI has the transformative potential to overcome traditional barriers in AI product development and accelerate the impact these technologies can have on clinical care. As healthcare leaders, we must develop and evaluate these tools carefully and responsibly to ensure high-quality care is never compromised,” Dr. Keith J. Dreier, chief data science officer and chief imaging officer at Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham and leader of the hospital’s AI business, said in a statement.
“The foundational models, fine-tuned based on Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham’s vast multimodal longitudinal data assets, will enable faster development cycles for AI/ML-based software as medical devices and other clinical applications, for example, automating the segmentation of organs and anomalies in medical images, improving radiologists’ efficiency and consistency.”
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The health system remained open during the outage and was able to provide care to patients with urgent health issues at the group’s clinics and emergency departments. Cancel non-urgent surgeries and medical examinations The day of the power outage.
The radiology-focused partnership mentioned above is not the first time the health system has worked with Microsoft and UW Health to explore the use of AI in healthcare.
At HIMSS24 in March, Microsoft announced the launch of the Trusted and Responsible AI Network (TRAIN).It is a consortium that aims to operationalize the principles of responsible AI to ensure the safety, quality, and trustworthy use of AI in healthcare.
The consortium includes Microsoft as a technology enabling partner, as well as 16 health systems, including Washington University School of Medicine and Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham.
Other members include AdventHealth, Advocate Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, Duke Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, Mercy, Mount Sinai Health System, Northwestern Medicine, Providence, Sharp HealthCare, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
In April, tech giant Google Cloud and global company Bayer have announced a collaboration to develop AI applications aimed at reducing radiologist burnout and improving diagnostic efficiency.
The collaboration aims to help organizations build scalable, compliant, AI-enabled software for medical imaging while ensuring data security.
The HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum is scheduled to take place in Boston from September 5 to 6. More information and registration.
