- Edison True PACS1 is a transformative system, offering
AI-enabled decision support to help radiologists adapt to higher
workloads and increased exam complexity, and improve diagnostic
accuracy
- Innovative, cloud-based system removes barriers to adopting new
diagnostic radiology efficiency applications and supports
distributed reading models such as teleradiology, a surging trend
since COVID-19
An acute shortage of radiologists and growing demand for imaging
scans has put radiology departments under increased strain – and GE
Healthcare has developed a next-generation, cloud-based Picture
Archive and Communication System (PACS) designed to overcome those
barriers.
Today, GE Healthcare introduces Edison True PACS, a diagnostic
imaging and workflow solution designed to help enable radiologists
– who are experiencing high rates of staff burnout and retirements
– to be more efficient and precise, while keeping capital and IT
resources under control. Currently, it is available in the U.S.,
with rollout expected in some other regions starting in 2022.
“Radiologists are desperate for the latest tools to most
effectively do their jobs. But organizations often lack the
financial and IT resources required to access and implement them,”
said Girish Muralidharan, Senior Vice President & General
Manager, Enterprise Imaging Solutions, GE Healthcare. “With the
launch of Edison True PACS, we have taken the first steps to
provide cloud-based enterprise imaging solutions that can help
transform patient care through accessible, sharable, and secure
imaging data while simultaneously improving clinical and
operational efficiencies.”
Edison True PACS arrives at a critical time in the industry, as
healthcare organizations struggle to keep their enterprise and
departmental solutions current as well as secure, while at the same
time remotely accessible. Too often, PACS systems require constant
monitoring and patching for security vulnerabilities, as well as OS
and application updates; these needs also require periodic and
capital-draining hardware upgrades. Further, with AI enabling new
productivity and accuracy tools, many organizations lack the IT
resources to adopt these changes promptly.
Enter Edison True PACS, which provides innovative, AI-enabled
decision-making tools that helps enhance reading speed, reduce
errors, improve diagnostic precision and enable more confident
diagnoses. Plus, as a cloud- hosted or subscription solution, IT
budgets and resources aren’t depleted or strained.
These advantages make Edison True PACS especially attractive for
small imaging centers and community hospitals, removing barriers
radiologists and their organizations face in acquiring cutting-edge
diagnostic radiology solutions. By leveraging a market leading
database and AI-enabled technologies, the solution gives them a
timelier and more affordable way to access AI-enabled decision
support applications and intelligent workflow automation.
Through a web-based diagnostic viewer and a zero-footprint
clinical viewer, radiologists will benefit from the ability to do
remote reading anytime, anywhere,2 to assist their referring
clinicians to ultimately deliver more timely, personalized and
precise care.
In addition, GE Healthcare’s new imaging solution is deployed on
AWS Cloud, designed to provide users data security and protection.
As the leading vendor of AI-based medical imaging applications
worldwide,3 GE Healthcare is in a unique position to assist
radiologists be more efficient while helping to improve diagnostic
accuracy and keeping pace with the growing workloads and complexity
of imaging studies that occur within the hospital or in a
teleradiology setting.
Improving Access to AI-Based Clinical
Imaging Solutions
Radiology is one of the most promising areas for AI in
healthcare and rapid progress is occurring in the field. Clinical
adoption of AI by radiologists has gone from essentially zero to
30% from 2015 to 2020, according to a study by the American College
of Radiology.4 However, healthcare providers may be reluctant to
purchase AI tools from multiple developers due to integration and
implementation challenges. Another barrier to adoption is the need
for AI-based image analysis tools to be fully integrated into
radiologists’ workflows and tightly integrated.
GE Healthcare has cultivated a rapidly expanding network of 3rd
party developers using Edison ecosystem who have created AI
algorithms for multiple diagnostic tasks. Edison True PACS
seamlessly integrates these into the workflow without adding any
additional clicks helping to ensure radiologists read the right
exam at the right time.
These applications help reduce radiologists’ read and reporting
time and could help lead to a more precise and confident diagnoses.
For example, while using an MRI AI application to evaluate multiple
sclerosis cases, radiologists report read times that are up to 60%
faster than reports performed without the application,5 and while
using an app to evaluate lung nodules on a CT, radiologists report
a 26% reduction in read times6 and up to a 29% increase in
diagnostic confidence.7
Edison True PACS brings together diagnostic reading, exam
workflow, AI, 3D post processing, enterprise visualization and
archiving all in a single platform, to provide advanced
functionality at an affordable cost.
Key benefits of the system include:
- Over 50% increase in radiologist efficiency for certain types
of exams through incorporation of Intelligent workflows and AI
clinical applications.8
- Potential to provide up to a 90% reduction in typical time
required to adopt AI applications due to fully hosted offering and
managed services.9
- Estimated 50% reduction in migration/implementation costs for
customers enabled by cloud automation, simplified data migration,
standard Health Level Seven (HL7) configuration, and default
workflow configurations with a reduced total cost of ownership for
customers on cloud.10
“From our perspective, Edison True PACS will save a tremendous
amount of money on our data storage, as not having to host PACS
on-site is going to be a significant reduction on that spend,”
noted Richard Duemmling, Chief of Business Operations at Neuro
Imaging Winter Park. “Not having to store back-ups and duplicates
on-site benefits us by taking workload off of our production
team.”
Matching Organizations’ Needs and
Budget
Edison True PACS is available as software as a service (SaaS) or
on premise, and in three subscription models to best match
organizations’ objectives and budget:
- Edison True Technologist is for organizations that have
outsourced their reading and need technologist workflow, image
routing, storage, referrer viewing and archiving.
- Edison True Essentials provides a low upfront capital
requirement, and affordable/predictable cost of ownership. It
allows organizations to allocate available funds and resources to
support more strategic organizational goals and activities.
- Edison True Professional is designed to help reduce the
risks in keeping pace with rapid changes in technology. It helps
ensure radiologists always have the most up to date features to
ensure their highest productivity and accuracy.
For more information about Edison True PACS from GE Healthcare
visit: www.gehealthcare.com/withoutwalls. Information on available
AI applications can be found on the GE Healthcare’s Edison
Marketplace.
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare is the $18 billion healthcare business of GE
(NYSE: GE). As a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical
diagnostics and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables
clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through
intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services,
supported by its Edison intelligence platform. With over 100 years
of healthcare industry experience and around 47,000 employees
globally, the company operates at the center of an ecosystem
working toward precision health, digitizing healthcare, helping
drive productivity and improve outcomes for patients, providers,
health systems and researchers around the world.
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1 Edison True PACS is a solution made up of Universal Viewer,
Enterprise Archive, Centricity Universal Viewer Zero Footprint
Client and 3rd party AI applications via Edison Open AI
Orchestrator. 2 Anywhere the Internet is available 3 Signify
Research LTD, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging World Market
Analysis, June 5, 2020 4 Source:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2021.04.002 5 Example reading time
reduction with on MS disease specific reporting with use of
Icobrain ms by Iconetrix. Sima et al. 2020 6 Source: Riverain
Technologies Medical DeltaView FDA 510(K) Reader Study Results,
2011 7 Source: Lo, S. B., Freedman, M. T., Gillis, L. B., White, C.
S., & Mun, S. K. (2018). JOURNAL CLUB: Computer-Aided Detection
of Lung Nodules on CT With a Computerized Pulmonary Vessel
Suppressed Function. American Journal of Roentgenology, 210(3),
480–488. doi: 10.2214/ajr.17.18718 8 Taken from 3 party case
studies on the use of optional AI-based clinical imaging
applications. This efficiency can differ depending on the
radiologist workflow practice and AI application used. 9 Estimated,
based on internal GE Healthcare engineering calculations. This
could vary depending on the hospital or imaging center setting. 10
Estimated, based on internal GE Healthcare engineering
calculations.
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