Mass General Brigham Among First to Accelerate
End-to-End AI Model Development and Deployment in Clinical
Workflows on the Nuance Precision Imaging Network
LAS
VEGAS, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
HLTH—Nuance Communications, Inc., and NVIDIA today announced
a partnership that for the first time puts AI-based diagnostic
tools directly into the hands of radiologists and other clinicians
at scale, enabling the delivery of improved patient care at lower
costs.
The partnership brings together the nationwide scale of
the Nuance Precision Imaging Network™ — an
AI-powered cloud platform that delivers patient insights from
diagnostic imaging into clinical and administrative workflows —
and MONAI, an open-source and domain-specialized
medical-imaging AI framework co-founded and accelerated by NVIDIA.
Together, they enable the safe and effective validation, deployment
and evaluation of medical imaging AI models.
Mass General Brigham is among the first major medical centers to
use MONAI and the Nuance Precision Imaging Network to define a
unique workflow that links medical-imaging model development,
application packaging, deployment and clinical feedback for model
refinement. It has more than 80,000 employees providing care to 1.5
million patients annually, with $2.3
billion in annual research spending.
Using the combined offering, the medical center has deployed a
breast density AI model that has reduced the waiting period for
results from several days to just 15 minutes. Women can now talk to
a clinician about the results of their scan and discuss next steps
before they leave the facility, rather than going through the
stress and anxiety of waiting for results.
"With the combination of NVIDIA's and Nuance's technologies, our
AI researchers can focus on training and developing their models
rather than doing all the plumbing underneath," said Dr.
Keith J. Dreyer, Chief Data Science
Officer, Mass General Brigham. "That makes it simpler to get
AI-powered insights to our clinicians, so they can provide the best
possible care, accelerate time to treatment and improve patient
outcomes."
The continuous clinic-to-research feedback loop reduces model
adaptation times from years to weeks. Domain shifts in data now
take weeks instead of months, and issue detection and repair takes
minutes rather than hours. It has also allowed Mass General Brigham
to reduce medical-imaging AI application development and
maintenance costs.
"Adoption of radiology AI at scale has traditionally been
constrained by the complexity of clinical workflows and the lack of
standards, applications and deployment platforms," said
David Niewolny, Director, Healthcare
Business Development, NVIDIA. "This partnership clears those
barriers, enabling the extraordinary capabilities of AI to be
delivered right at the point of care, faster than ever before."
"The strategic partnership between Nuance and NVIDIA makes the
process of deploying trained diagnostic imaging AI models into
existing clinical applications at scale simpler for everyone. With
this joint effort, we are effectively tackling the problem of how
you get medical insights from the 'bench' to the bedside," said
Peter Durlach, Executive Vice
President and Chief Strategy Officer, Nuance Communications.
"Imaging AI developers will now be able to deploy their solutions
much faster, helping transform imaging workflows to improve patient
outcomes and health system financial performance."
Powered by Microsoft Azure, the Nuance Precision Imaging Network
provides access to an entire ecosystem of AI-powered tools and
insights within clinical workflows to more than 12,000 healthcare
facilities and the 80% of U.S. radiologists who use Nuance's
PowerScribe radiology reporting and PowerShare image sharing
solutions.
MONAI was built by the medical imaging community to transform
research breakthroughs and AI applications into clinical impact. It
includes MONAI Deploy, the accelerated processing pipeline that
delivers MONAI Application Packages (MAPs), which easily integrate
into healthcare systems, using interoperability standards such as
DICOM, across data center and cloud environments.
To learn more, read Nuance's whitepaper
here.
About NVIDIA
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The
company's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC
gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of
modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is
now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings
that are reshaping industry. More information
at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
About Nuance Communications
Nuance Communications is a
technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational AI and
ambient intelligence. A full-service partner trusted by 77 percent
of U.S. hospitals and more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100
companies worldwide, Nuance creates intuitive solutions that
amplify people's ability to help others. Nuance is a Microsoft
company.
Media Contacts:
Dayna
McCoubrey
Nuance Communications
+1-781-565-4728
dayna.mccoubrey@nuance.com
Janette Ciborowski
NVIDIA Corporation
+1-734-330-8817
jciborowski@nvidia.com
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