- Providence St. Joseph Health to Deploy Cloud-Based Health IT with AI
The system automatically screens the electronic health records (EHR) to find patients for clinical trials. The system, called the Automated Clinical Trial Eligibility Screener (ACTES), saved the clinical staff time by identifying the highest quality candidates.
ACTES reduced patient screening time by 34 percent and improved patient enrollment by 11.1 percent. The system improved the number of patients screened by 14.7 percent and those approached by 11.1 percent.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is a 700-bed pediatric hospital located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Because of the large volume of data documented in EHRs, the recruiting processes used now to find relevant information are very labor intensive within the short time frame needed," said Yizhao Ni, PhD, a researcher in the medical center’s Division of Biomedical Informatics and lead investigator of the study.
"By leveraging natural language processing and machine learning technologies, ACTES was able to quickly analyze different types of data and automatically determine patients' suitability for clinical trials,” Ni added.
Healthcare AI Market to Reach $8B in 2026
Fueled by this innovative healthcare applications and many others, the healthcare AI market is forecast by Acumen Research and Consulting to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 50 percent through 2026, reaching a market value of $8 billion by then.
Acumen divides the healthcare AI market into the following segments: application, technology, and end users.
Based on application, the research firm divides the segment into imaging diagnostics, drug discovery, lifestyle management and monitoring, emergency room and hospital management, wearables, insights and risk analytics, virtual assistance, and insurance.
Based on technology, the market is divided into speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning. And based on end users, the market is segmented into hospitals, pharmaceutical organizations, diagnostic centers, and clinics.
Acumen identifies the following vendors as key players in the healthcare AI market: Microsoft, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Oncora, Philips, Siemens, GE Healthcare, Medtronic, Google, Amazon, Intel, CareSkore, CloudMedx, Clarify Health Solutions, Zebra Medical Vision, Qventus, NextHealth Technologies, and Anju Software (Zephyr Health).
