GE HealthCare has announced a strategic partnership with AI health informatics company DeepHealth Inc., incorporating its technology into one of GE’s flagship imaging systems and developing new AI solutions for the company’s portfolio to address imaging workflow challenges.

As the first step in the partnership, GE HealthCare will bring DeepHealth’s AI-based SmartMammo workflow and clinical solution to GE HealthCare’s Senographe Pristina mammography system.

SmartMammo is a cloud-based multimodality image viewer that integrates into the radiology workflow and offers a suite of clinical AI detection tools used to prioritize cases, including automatic lesion localization and determining suspicion level of a case.

Incorporating the technology into the GE system can help support high-volume breast cancer screening programs. Support and maintenance is simplified and updates can be made without any downtime, according to GE HealthCare.

Components of the SmartMammo solution are 510(k) pending for use with GE HealthCare’s mammography system.

The two companies also plan to integrate DeepHealth’s Smart Alerts workflow solution into the Senographe Pristina. The solution utilizes rapid AI processing to alert clinicians to cases with potentially suspicious lesions in minutes, with the goal of providing same-day follow-up exams and reducing anxiety for patients with potentially suspicious findings.

In the future, the two companies plan to develop what they call SmartTechnology solutions that will use AI to reduce workflow inefficiencies to improve precision and accuracy, as well as help reduce the time to diagnosis.

DeepHealth Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RadNet Inc. Along with the announcement of the collaboration, the company recently reported that its third-quarter revenue increased 15% over the previous year, following a growth trend in the digital health sector.

A GE HealthCare representative told HCB News that the announced collaboration builds on a more than 30-year relationship between GE HealthCare and RadNet and “harnesses our collective strengths to elevate patient care.”

“GE HealthCare has a legacy of imaging and AI innovation and is committed to our continued pursuit of new technologies that push the boundaries of what is possible to enable precision care,” said Roland Rott, president and chief executive officer of Imaging for GE HealthCare, in a statement. “This new collaboration with DeepHealth harnesses our combined strengths to address critical challenges in healthcare today.”

“As we look to make more personalized, patient-centered breast care a reality, AI continues to show great promise in breast cancer screening from early detection and risk prediction, to reduced callbacks and more efficient workflows for breast imaging providers. We are excited to bring the power of imaging and AI together to elevate personalized breast care for those facing this difficult diagnosis,” Rott said.

Kees Wesdorp, president and CEO of RadNet’s Digital Health division, said in a statement that the company was “thrilled” to collaborate with GE HealthCare to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered technologies in radiology.

"By combining our pioneering cloud-native operating system, DeepHealth OS, and our AI-powered health informatics portfolio with GE HealthCare’s cutting-edge imaging technology, we are poised to revolutionize large-scale diagnostic and screening programs, streamline radiology workflows, and improve patient outcomes,” Wesdorp said. “This collaboration aims to empower healthcare providers with the tools they need to deliver more effective and personalized care at scale."