Aidoc and Gleamer Partner To Expand the Use of AI in Medical Imaging

“After receiving our FDA clearance in March and entering the US commercial market, this partnership with Aidoc is an exciting milestone for our company. Considering that fracture interpretation errors can represent up to 24% of harmful diagnostic errors seen in the ER, we anticipate that the integration will benefit health systems looking to improve imaging across all their facilities.”

Christian Allouche, CEO and co-founder of Gleamer

Aidoc has announced an agreement with?Gleamer to integrate Gleamer’s BoneView? solution for X-ray in the Aidoc platform. This partnership will help health systems address the increasing volume of medical images and the worldwide radiologist labor shortage . Integration of Boneview into Aidoc’s AI platform will give many more clinicians access to a tool to help them identify fractures in limbs, pelvis, thoracic and lumbar spine, and rib cage. Aidoc’s end-to-end AI platform already includes numerous third-party AI vendors including Imbio, Riverain, Subtle, Icometrix and ScreenPoint.

Over 152 million X-rays are performed every year in the US. Although there are about 37,000 radiologists in the US, they are not evenly distributed. California, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York have thousands of radiologists, but some states have fewer than a hundred. AI tools can help radiologists to triage patients by flagging abnormal medical images to improve workflow and can help reduce delays in identifying and acting on abnormal medical images.?

This map shows how radiologists are dispersed across the US. Source: Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute

“Considering that bone trauma X-rays account for a high percentage of hospital imaging volume, the integration of Gleamer’s solution is an important step in our mission to provide comprehensive coverage with AI. Gleamer’s solution is another highly valued addition to our suite of industry-leading AI solutions that, combined, empower health systems to improve patient outcomes.”

Tom Valent, VP of Business Development, Aidoc

Gleamer

Gleamer’s AI solutions have been shown to reduce the reading time of X-rays, while also increasing the sensitivity and specificity of radiologist interpretations of fractures. Gleamer’s first globally available AI software, BoneView, recently received clearance by the FDA and CE mark class 2a certification in Europe.

Gleamer’s AI Companions are directly integrated in the users’ usual reading environment and act as an automated and transparent second reading to improve diagnostic accuracy in X-ray imaging. Gleamer’s solutions are currently being used across 14 countries in more than 300 institutions. Studies by world-leading radiologists and academic medical doctors have shown that BoneView improves detection of fractures in X-ray images, providing healthcare professionals with a safe, reliable, time-saving concurrent reading.?

Aidoc

Aidoc was founded in 2016 and has raised over $140 million from investors. The company's software is used in hospitals, level 1 trauma centers, and outpatient imaging centers. In April of this year Aidoc?received its 9th FDA clearance for triage and notification of brain aneurysm. Aidoc was previously granted FDA clearances for an algorithms to flag acute

intracranial hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism,?pneumothorax,?stroke, cervical fracture,?intra-abdominal free gas, and?incidental pulmonary embolism. The following hospitals and imaging centers use Aidoc's algorithms: Montefiore Nyack Hospital,?Yale New Haven Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,?University of Rochester Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center, and Antwerp University?Hospital.

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This article was written by?Margaretta Colangelo. ?Margaretta is Co-founder of Jthereum. She serves on the advisory board of the AI Precision Health Institute at the University of Hawai?i?Cancer Center. She's based in San Francisco?

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