A recent Forbes article revealed General Electric’s (GE) healthcare division plans to partner with Harvard Hospitals to develop artificial intelligence (AI) products for medicine. The company’s objective is “to leverage the company’s dominant position in medical imaging into a new ownership of medical AI.”
The development of AI products opens the potential for software to be built that could identify which scans are normal, benefitting radiologists looking for abnormalities.
In the article, John Flannery, president and CEO of GE Healthcare, states that in one to three years, commercialization of cloud-based radiology applications could occur. This application would be like an iTunes app store, but specifically made for physicians. Other companies would use the infrastructure and data built by GE and its partners to create a program that best fits their needs which will all run on a single application.
Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, chief data science officer at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital notes, “If there were 20 technologies with these solutions, I can’t buy 20 solutions. I need a single platform. This remains an interesting space to watch.”
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Jodelle joined TriMed Media Group in 2016 as a senior writer, focusing on content for Radiology Business and Health Imaging. After receiving her master's from DePaul University, she worked as a news reporter and communications specialist.