This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast. Here's your daily industry news briefing
for today, December 2nd.
First,
VillageMD's
board appointed COO Jim Murray as interim CEO
November 27th
after former CEO Tim Barry stepped down according
to the Chicago Tribune.
The Chicago based primary care company did not
provide additional information about mister Barry's exit.
Earlier this year, VillageMD made plans to close
a 160 clinics after investor, Wal
Walgreens, incurred a $5,800,000,000 impairment charge related to
the company. Walgreens also filed a securities and
exchange commission report detailing plans to sell part
or all of its ownership stake in VillageMD
back in August.
During its latest quarterly earnings call, Walgreens CEO
said VillageMD wouldn't be a crucial part of
the company's future as Walgreens aims to focus
on its retail pharmacy business.
However, Walgreens told the tribune it would continue
to work with mister Murray through the leadership
transition
and said mister Murray was integral in the
company's turnaround toward profitable
growth.
2nd,
hospitals and health systems had a very busy
year warding off and recovering from cyberattacks in
2024.
Here are the hospitals and health systems that
fell victim to hackers this year in alphabetical
order as reported by Becker's.
1st is Ascension, section is second is Bay
Health, 3rd is Capital Health, 4 is Cedar
Sinai,
5th is Children's Minnesota,
6 is Fairfield Memorial Hospital, 7 is Lindsay
Municipal Hospital, 8 is Lori Children's, 9 is
McLaren Healthcare, 10 is Memorial Hospital and Manor.
11, Michigan Medicine. 12, North Bay Health. 13th,
Northern Light Health. 14, Petersburg, Alaska Medical Center.
15th, Saint Anthony Regional Hospital.
16, UC San Diego Health. 17, UMC Health
System, 18,
Trigo County Lamike Memorial Hospital,
19th, Wayne Memorial Hospital.
3rd,
more than half of health care organizations
are using AI for at least one medical
imaging task, up from 17% in 2018 according
to a recent report from Kloss Research.
The report is based on interviews with 206
US based organizations
conducted between May 2023
April 2024.
Respondents included imaging groups about 25%
and health systems.
The report aims to provide an early look
at popular and widely considered AI tools in
the imaging market.
Here are 6 things to know from the
report.
Organizations that handle more than image more imaging
studies annually are more likely to already
already be using AI.
Midsize and some smaller organizations, those handling about
a 100000 to 490,000
studies annually
are the most likely to adopt AI soon
with more than 30% planning their first use.
2nd, 47%
of respondents said they are considers considering purchasing
an AI platform, though current usage remains relatively
low according to the report.
3, respondents reported using 65 commercial AI solutions
for imaging along with in house solutions primarily
in stand alone settings.
4, Rapid AI and Viz AI are the
leading AI platforms. Rapid AI AI is predominantly
used
platforms. Rapid AI
AI is predominantly used by large organizations for
newer vascular applications such as stroke detection, while
Viz AI is also widely used for stroke
detection in head CTs and has been adopted
by some midsize and smaller organizations.
5,
iadoc is the most considered AI solution with
many midsize and large organizations using it for
neurological
and chest conditions such as pulmonary embolisms and
intracranial
hemorrhages.
6, approximately 75%
of organizations considering an AI solution already have
specific products and applications in mind according to
the report.
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