Looking Back to 2019 for Effective Role of AI in

Healthcare Industry

AI in Healthcare is evolving at a faster rate. Artificial

Intelligence is capable of detecting meaningful
relationships in a data set and has been widely used in
many healthcare facilities to diagnose, treat, and
predict the medical results.
The year 2019 was spent tracking the steady evolution
of AI and other advanced technologies in the
healthcare sector, paying close attention to how they
could change patient care for the time to come. In this
blog, we have listed the top and compelling
achievements of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
sector as witnessed by the year 2019.
How will AI Impact Radiology in another 10-15 years?

AI continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with new

algorithms and solutions being developed all the time.
What kind of long-term impact could these
technologies have on patient care? What will
radiology—and healthcare as a whole—look like in
2030 or 2035?
AI in Healthcare was in Chicago for RSNA 2019,
speaking with researchers, vendors and other
attendees about radiology’s close connection to AI.
Following are the answers recorded:
Imad B. Nijim, chief information officer, MEDNAX
Radiology Solutions, said-
“AI in radiology is just as impactful and
transformational to our industry as when we moved
from film to digital imaging. AI will permeate clinical
informatics across all healthcare disciplines, with
radiology having the most potential for innovation.
First, AI will empower radiologists and impact the
clinical practice by improving quality, reducing
administrative burden, introducing a new level of
image quantification and more. Second, AI will
empower the administrators through the use of
workflow models to ensure billing efficacy, procedure
integrity and fraud detection.”
Karley Yoder, vice president and general manager of
AI, GE Healthcare said,
“AI will radically transform radiology over the next 10
to 15 years, allowing clinicians to be much more
efficient, accurate and available to spend time with the
care team and their patients. This transformation will
come as the industry learns how to efficiently unlock
data and unleash intelligence."
Gene Saragnese, CEO, MaxQ AI said,

“In radiology specifically, I think AI is moving us from a

place where radiologists are interpreting images to one
where they are diagnosing patients. That community
does have a history of bringing IT solutions together to
achieve a goal.”
Elad Walach, co-founder and CEO, Aidoc, said, “In the
short term—say, the next five years—AI will be an
augmenter and force multiplier, helping clinicians
target their expertise via triage, acting as a ‘second
reader’ or automating some routine tasks like
measurement.
Hyun-Jun Kim, co-founder and chief strategy officer,
VUNO said,
“I strongly believe that we will see AI making greater
contributions to revolutionizing the entire aspects of
clinical workflows, shifting its role from throughput-
based applications to providing more individualized and
personalized healthcare to patients. That is, AI-driven
approaches will enable more rapid, consistent, robust
and objective quantification of abnormalities in
radiology, allowing medical professionals to diagnose
diseases more efficiently and offer bespoke medical
care through identifying the types and timing of
medical exams a patient needs. This will ultimately lead
to early detection and timely treatment of diseases
reducing overall medical costs.”
How AI Impacted Hospital and Health system
workforces?

The American Hospital Association’s 2019 report, AI

and the Health Care Workforce, examined the many
ways providers can successfully integrate AI
technologies. The report also explores how AI will be
affecting the healthcare workforce, the care & the
performance of physicians.
As per American Hospital Association, “Hospitals of the
future will operate very differently than today thanks to
the boom in AI.” The AHA’s Center for Health
Innovation published a Market Insights report on how
AI will impact health systems and hospitals.
Researchers have said 40% of tasks performed by
nonclinical staff and 33% performed by clinical staff
could be done by AI. While some tasks will be
outsourced to technology, healthcare workers will see
their roles change and evolve. With all these changes in
mind, there are seven concrete ways the healthcare
workforce will be impacted by AI, according to the
AHA:
 Improve productivity, performance & efficiency
 Expand job responsibilities
 Practice at the top of license
 Upskill & refrain staff
AI won’t replace radiologists, but it should make them
better physicians

Among all healthcare specialties, radiology has been

impacted by AI technology. This trend is sure to carry
on through 2020 and beyond. As per by a journal
published by American College of Radiology,
radiologists will see significant benefits from the
continued rise of AI.
“If we sit back and do nothing, there is a chance we
could be marginalized by AI,” wrote lead author Bibb
Allen, MD, chief medical officer of the American College
of Radiology Data Science Institute (ACR DSI), and
colleagues. “On the other hand, if we play a leadership
role in AI development, the best days for radiologists,
our specialty and our patients are yet to come.”
Artificial Intelligence Identifies Schizophrenia with
87% Accuracy

In the start of 2019, healthcare sector witnesses the

role of AI-powered software that can identify
schizophrenia in MRI scans with 87% accuracy.
“Two individuals with the same diagnosis might still
present different symptoms,” lead author Sunil
Kalmady, PhD, said in a statement at the time. “This
often leads to misdiagnosis. Machine learning, in this
case, is able to drive an evidence-based approach that
looks at thousands of features in a brain scan to lead to
an optimal prediction.” He further added.
Sepsis- A major Health concern, can be predicted with
an ML Algorithm

Research reveals that a machine learning algorithm is

trained to predict the appearance of Sepsis- a major
health concern, before time. The research noted that
sepsis results in nearly 270,000 deaths annually
throughout the United States. These algorithms show
the potential to help a vast number of patients
suffering from Sepsis.

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