GE Healthcare Unveils AI-Integrated PACS and Interventional Platforms to Advance Digital Clinical Management

GEGE Healthcare at the 2020 Chinese Hospital Association Information Network Conference

- Launched the Centricity™ Open PACS AI Intelligent Imaging Platform, enabling cross-brand AI integration and providing clinicians with a unified artificial intelligence imaging workflow and diagnostic tools

- Launched the Centricity™ Intervention Enterprise intelligent interventional platform, covering treatment pathways for all types of interventional procedures and improving clinical diagnostic efficiency by 24%

August 30, 2020, Beijing—Today, at the 2020 China Hospital Information Network Association (CHIMA) Conference, GE Healthcare launched two intelligent clinical management solutions based on the Edison platform: the Centricity™ Open PACS AI Intelligent Imaging Platform, which enables cross-vendor scheduling of various AI applications, and the Centricity™ Intervention Enterprise Intelligent Intervention Platform, which facilitates comprehensive digital workflow management for multidisciplinary interventional procedures. With “intelligent hospital management” as a key focus, GE Healthcare is accelerating its digital strategy and collaborating with industry partners to support the development of “smart hospitals,” thereby creating a more convenient diagnostic and treatment experience for both patients and healthcare providers.

Centricity™ Intervention Enterprise Intelligent Interventional Platform

Dai Ying, Vice President of GE Healthcare China and Chief Innovation Officer, stated, “As GE Healthcare continues to expand its digital ecosystem, we are not merely adding elements; rather, we are streamlining through integration—developing and incorporating the most comprehensive functionalities and cutting-edge research achievements, while delivering the most direct and straightforward smart healthcare solutions to frontline medical professionals. GE Healthcare will continue to accelerate the digital empowerment strategy across its entire product portfolio. We are committed to ensuring that artificial intelligence, 5G, and expanded telemedicine scenarios and technologies move beyond the laboratory into clinical practice, empowering physicians to address real-world clinical and management challenges, thereby advancing toward smarter and more precise healthcare.”

- Unifying diverse AI software into a cohesive whole, standardizing the interface experience, and integrating the entire imaging diagnosis workflow – Centricity™ Open PACS AI Intelligent Imaging Platform

In large hospitals with high patient volumes, departments average over 1,000 scans per day, placing radiologists under excessive workloads and significant pressure to maintain quality while improving efficiency. As more AI software is deployed in radiology departments, radiologists are finding that AI does not reduce workload as expected; instead, fragmented AI tools increase the time required to learn their operation and add steps during image interpretation, further prolonging reading times. To address this pain point, GE Healthcare has launched the Open PACS AI Intelligent Imaging Platform, which pioneeringly integrates AI into PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System), providing hospitals with an AI-integrated image reading workflow and enabling an intelligent diagnostic process powered by AI integration.

Based on scan images from various anatomical regions in radiology, Open PACS AI automatically orchestrates appropriate AI software tools through GE’s proprietary “Open AI Intelligent Engine.” Throughout the entire workflow of image interpretation and reporting, it provides AI-enhanced image display comparison and AI-assisted diagnostic decision support, while automatically integrating AI results into imaging reports. For multi-lesion diagnostic scenarios, the platform leverages Edison’s powerful edge computing capabilities to orchestrate multiple AI applications for parallel computation, measurement, annotation, and analysis in the background. This achieves a unified and integrated front-end image interpretation workflow, seamlessly embedding AI results and assistance into the entire diagnostic reporting process. By consolidating disparate elements, it increases intelligent image interpretation speed by 30%–40% (*based on global statistics from GE Healthcare). GE Healthcare’s Open PACS AI is actively expanding third-party collaborations, inviting industry partners to leverage GE’s professional services to simplify deployment, ensure tight integration of AI algorithms with the system, and deliver an optimal user experience.

Professor Fu Haihong, Chairman of the Imaging Technology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, stated: “Since 2014, Peking Union Medical College Hospital has deployed GE Healthcare’s PACS/RIS system, integrating 53 devices, conducting 3.08 million examinations, and accumulating a total of 970 million images. The launch of the new Open PACS AI today demonstrates that the field of radiology is once again at the forefront of medical innovation. It addresses physicians’ pain points and truly delivers a convenient ‘what you see is what you get’ experience. For the future of radiology, AI-enabled PACS with extensive integration and deep deployment will be key to standardizing imaging practices, optimizing technologies, and achieving precision in diagnostic imaging.”

- Structure dispersed form data and customize workflows to digitize interventional procedures—Centricity™ Intervention Enterprise Intelligent Interventional Platform

In interventional clinical practice, issues such as the need for manual paper-based recording of intraoperative data and subsequent manual entry into the Hospital Information System (HIS) for billing are prevalent. This not only results in a high error rate but also leads to waste due to miscalculations in consumable usage. More importantly, the lack of functionalities for intraoperative timeline documentation, surgical quality control, and postoperative follow-up records hinders effective management of patient surgical quality and postoperative follow-up, thereby impacting treatment progress. Furthermore, problems such as the loss of historical data and cumbersome access to clinical data have become obstacles to conducting subsequent scientific research and AI studies.

GE Healthcare’s newly launched Centricity™ Intervention Enterprise (CIE) intelligent interventional platform integrates global clinical experience in interventional procedures. It is a specialized interventional information platform centered on multidisciplinary interventional procedure workflow management, quality control, and research management. Clinicians, surgeons, and specialized nurses collaborate and share data using the same set of standardized, digital tools, with customization capabilities tailored to the interventional workflows of different hospitals. The CIE intelligent interventional platform covers the entire closed-loop cycle of interventional therapy—including diagnosis, treatment, nursing care, and follow-up—helping healthcare professionals reduce reporting errors by 48%, improve clinical diagnostic efficiency by 24%, and increase clinical revenue by 18% (*based on GE Healthcare’s global statistics). Furthermore, thanks to its extensive coverage of various interventional procedures and clinical specialties (such as coronary, electrophysiology, structural heart disease, cardiopulmonary, peripheral, neurology, and oncology), the platform establishes a large-scale database for specialized diseases. This enables the integration of clinical data with procedural data, laying a big-data foundation for disease-specific scientific research and AI development.

After Beijing Hospital installed the CIE Intelligent Interventional Platform, doctors and nurses only need to input key data before and during surgery. The platform can then automatically generate surgical reports and provide real-time access to patients’ critical pre- and post-operative imaging and laboratory data. It also offers a comprehensive suite of professional intelligent image analysis tools, such as vascular analysis, volume processing, ventricular analysis, and coronary artery analysis, thereby providing comprehensive imaging diagnosis and assessment for preoperative diagnosis and postoperative follow-up. From a management perspective, the CIE platform also enables automated lifecycle management of consumables and automatic billing management. Du Yuantai, Vice President of Beijing Hospital, stated, “There is a starting point but no endpoint for smart hospitals. Smart hospitals must achieve ‘three-in-one’ intelligence centered on patients, physicians, and administrators. Our future efforts will focus on building all architectures on cloud platforms with robust data security, enabling rapid and convenient data sharing and interaction.”

Du Yuantai, Vice President of Beijing Hospital