Partners to Furnish Health IT Infrastructure for AI Alliance
Partners HealthCare will contribute its health IT infrastructure, data, and clinical expertise to a partnership with Fujifilm SonoSite to develop AI-powered portable ultrasound devices for emergency medicine use.
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- Partners HealthCare will contribute its health IT infrastructure, data, and clinical expertise to a partnership with Fujifilm SonoSite to develop AI-powered portable ultrasound devices for emergency medicine use.
The organizations will work together to boost portable ultrasound technology with AI to enable clinicians to perform scans at the point-of-care. Their first project will target emergency medicine procedures using AI-enabled portable ultrasound.
"If we build scanners that can be used by non-expert users both inside and outside the hospital, we can likely reduce the time delay between trauma and diagnosis, which will translate to more rapid interventions and improved outcomes,” commented Andrew Liteplo, MD, chief of the ultrasound division at Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine.
Keith Dreyer, PhD, chief data science officer at Partners HealthCare, added: "Allowing for even greater integration of ultrasound into our healthcare delivery system requires smarter machines. In emergency settings, the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of portable ultrasound makes is a critical companion to other imaging modalities."
The partnership will be executed through the Center for Clinical Data Science at MGH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
"This collaboration is really focused on embedding AI in portable ultrasound with the goal of automating the segmentation of organ boundaries, measurement of anatomic features and calculation of physiological parameters — the type of automation that will allow us to increase the accessibility of this critical technology while still delivering high diagnostic value,” said Diku Mandavia, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer of Fujifilm SonoSite.
Rich Fabian, president and chief operating officer of Fujifilm SonoSite, concluded: "Fujifilm SonoSite introduced ultrasound systems designed for use at the point of care to the healthcare system over 20 years ago … I am proud that we will be able to offer [customers] AI-enhanced technology to expand their utilization of ultrasound, increasing the quality of care they can provide while saving our healthcare system money.”
