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Huiyihuiying, a Chinese medical imaging artificial intelligence company, yesterday announced the launch of their new AI Full Cycle Health Management Cloud Platform, which consists of two separate platforms for different health concerns: the Breast Cancer AI Full Cycle Health Management Platform and the AORTIST 2.0 Aorta AI Cloud Platform. The platforms are based on AI 2.0 technology and were introduced at Chinese Congress of Radiology 2018 (CCR 2018) in the National Congress Center on November 8, 2018. The Breast Cancer AI Full Cycle Health Management Platform is committed to the whole cycle of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, from breast molybdenum target screening to nuclear magnetic diagnosis to pathological diagnosis. The AORTIST 2.0 Aortic AI Cloud platform is to provide a process for the identification of breaks, choosing cardiac stents, and the prognosis of follow-up treatment. WHY IT MATTERS Compared to medical imaging products based on AI 1.0 technology that only cover disease screening and auxiliary diagnosis, the biggest feature of the AI 2.0 products launched by Huiyihuiying is the deep integration of AI and healthcare in three areas: value fusion, data fusion and process fusion. According to a research article, “Heading toward Artificial Intelligence 2.0” by Yunhe Pan, AI 2.0 technology will possess distinguishing features, such as the process of combining data-driven and knowledge guidance into autonomous machine learning that is both explainable and more general. The new platforms are the result of investment from Intel Investment and Core Kinetic Energy Fund. THE LARGER TREND Based on a MIT Technology Review report in March 2018, there are some 131 companies currently working on applying AI in the country’s healthcare sector. The rapid development of AI in China is also prompted by the government’s push to transform the country into a “nation of innovation.” A year ago, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the Three-Year Action Plan to Promote the Development of New-Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020). This new plan calls for China to achieve “major breakthroughs in a series of landmark AI products” and “establish international competitive advantage” by 2020. ON THE RECORD Founder and CEO of Huiyihuiying Xiangfei Chai said, "In order to promote the development of medical imaging AI, it is necessary to integrate multi-border integration of AI enterprises, hospitals and academic institutions so that the new technology of AI will be truly landing." "We believe that the application of multi-modal image data and the full cycle coverage of disease diagnosis and treatment are the trends of AI industry development. There will be more and more diseases in the future cured by AI applications," co-founder of Huiyihuiying, Na Guo said. Focus on Artificial Intelligence In November, we take a deep dive into AI and machine learning. .jumbotron{ background-image: url("http://www.healthcareitnews.com/sites/default/files/u2556/AIJumbotron.jpg"); background-size: cover; color: white; } .jumbotron h2{ color: white; }

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Cincinnati-based Mercy Health announced this week that it is investing in San Diego-based NucleusHealth, developer of cloud-hosted picture archiving communications systems and teleradiology services. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. Mercy Health implemented the technology this past year, and apparently liked it so much that it's decided to become a minority investor in the company. It's the most recent instance of a health system embracing that strategy for innovation – partnering with a third-party vendor to help spread technology it believes can help drive improvements for other hospitals. In 2016, NewYork-Presbyterian purchased a stake in telehealth company Avizia, for instance, and UPMC invested in predictive analytics and pop health startup RxAnte. NucleusHealth's Nucleus.io platform leverages secure Microsoft Azure cloud for better scalability and cost efficiency for PACS. The health system implemented the technology in less than three months – and managed to extend out a sharing network of 300 different locations over the next six, said Mike Hibbard, Mercy Health's vice president of IT, applications and service delivery. Mercy Health's IT team now taps Nucleus.io as a backup PACS when the main enterprise system is undergoing updates or maintenance, but may expand its use for other applications, he noted. NucleusHealth will still operate as an independent company, but will work in tandem with Mercy Health to create new features and workflows for system-wide deployment of its browser radiology workstation, Azure-based cloud storage and other image management tools, officials said. "We are very pleased to have this unique opportunity to partner with Microsoft and one of the nation’s best health systems,” said Vishal Verma, MD, NucleusHealth CEO. “This combined team has the unique ability to optimize our platform to create a true transformation of the medical imaging market." Mercy Health, which operates hospitals across Ohio and into Kentucky, is not to be confused with Mercy, the large St. Louis-based health system that spans Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. But both have made big cloud-hosted PACS news in the past two weeks. Earlier this month, Mercy Technology Services, the IT division of St. Louis-based Mercy, announced it would commercialize its own cloud-based PACS system for other hospitals to deploy. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com

Mercy Technology Services, the IT division of the sprawling St. Louis-based health system, has developed a new cloud-based imaging platform and is commercializing it for other hospitals to deploy. The picture archiving communication system comprises best-of-breed enterprise viewer, vendor neutral archive, workflow orchestrator, speech recognition and reporting, according to Mercy, bundled as a secure software-as-a-service model aimed a small and midsize hospitals. It's aimed as a way to help hospitals drive efficiency with their imaging processes, replacing outdated and far-flung PACS systems, that require radiologists to spend too much time tracking down imaging reports or switching between stations. Cloud-based PACS can allow for big time savings and cost efficiencies at cash-strapped small hospitals, such as the one in rural Kansas we reported on this past month, which was able to cut its imaging costs in half. Mercy, which operates 40 hospitals of various sizes across four states, consolidated its own imaging platform with help from MTS, distilling nine legacy PACS systems into a single hosted technology. The system, which combines server-side image processing from Visage, a workflow orchestrator from Medicalis and speech recognition from Nuance, has helped radiologists at the health system decrease turnaround time for their reports by up to 50 percent. Mercy is a longtime health IT leader, and one of the earliest adopters of Epic. Its technology knowhow over the years has enabled it to innovate new advances in telehealth, advanced analytics and more as it has scaled up its infrastructure. It's also allowed it to be able to share its expertise and tools with other providers. Its Epic accreditation enables allows it to share Epic and other technology with smaller hospitals. "We're a little bit unique from the standpoint that Mercy sells its IT services to other providers," Mercy CIO Gil Hoffman told Healthcare IT News in 2017. "We have commercialized our IT, and that has taken a lot of work, bringing some other health systems not only into our Epic services but our hosting services as well." Now, as the latest example of its ability to commercialize and host IT systems for other hospitals, MTS will offer this PACS-as-a-service, whether bundled or by the component, to hospitals across the country. "Having everything together and viewable with the click of a button – all prior studies, all modalities – means radiologists aren’t waiting and neither are patients," said Steve Bollin, Mercy’s vice president of radiology support services, in a statement For his part, Hoffman touted the PACS as an efficient and affordable platform, developed as a result of Mercy's own efforts to innovate its technology and workflows. .jumbotron{ background-image: url("https://www.healthcareitnews.com/sites/default/files/u2231/Innovation-month-jumbotron.jpg"); background-size: cover; color: white; } .jumbotron h2{ color: white; } Focus on Innovation In September, we take a deep dive into the cutting-edge development and disruption of healthcare innovation. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com

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