Partners, GE to launch landmark artificial intelligence center

In a newly created Center for Clinical Data Science, teams from both companies will develop, test and deploy artificial intelligence software at Partners' largest hospitals: Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. "This is about creating digital tools that will have a profound impact on medicine, said John Flannery, chief executive of GE Healthcare. "By leveraging AI across every patient interaction, workflow challenge and administrative need, this collaboration will drive improvements in quality, cost and access." The new technologies could reduce unnecessary procedures such as some biopsies and automate tedious medical image review, the companies said. The first use of the technology will focus on medical images from x-rays, MRIs and other scans, which would help determine the impact of a stroke, quickly identify emergency room patients with fractures and help track how tumors respond to new cancer treatments.