During the 104th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 25-30 at Chicago's McCormick Place, Siemens Healthineers presents the AI-Pathway Companion* for the first time. It is a clinical decision support system based on artificial intelligence that supports physicians in making diagnostic and therapeutic decisions along the clinical pathway. While numerous applications in the healthcare market make the workflows of individual clinical or administrative departments more efficient, the AI-Pathway Companion is designed to help optimize the processes along the clinical pathways and thus the overall success of patient management. The AI-Pathway Companion provides physicians in multi-disciplinary disease boards with the clinical status of each patient, based on data integration and artificial intelligence, and makes suggestions for next steps. The first clinical application will apply to prostate cancer.

"At RSNA 2018 Siemens Healthineers has announced two powerful AI-based systems: AI-Rad Companion and AI-Pathway companion. This once again is demonstrating our aspiration, as a leading company in digitalization and artificial intelligence, to support healthcare providers in their transformation to value-based healthcare. With AI-Pathway Companion, Siemens Healthineers is presenting a next-gen clinical decision support system that helps physicians to standardize and accelerate clinical decisions through artificial intelligence," says Yan Beynon, head of Digital Services at Siemens Healthineers.

The ever-increasing quantity of medical patient data could actually lead to more personalized and efficient diagnostics and therapy, in other words to precision medicine. However, health data from clinical examinations, laboratory results, genetics and imaging, for example, are still kept in isolated silos. This lack of data integration leads to waste and errors in clinical procedures, and overutilization. Insufficient patient care and budget overruns can result.1
The AI-Pathway Companion is an intelligent digital solution that works on the basis of powerful data integration and AI-technologies to recognize patterns and regularities in data. For each patient case, it aggregates the patient history, the results from imaging, laboratory, pathology and genetics as well as clinical studies, and evaluates the data. Using this as the basis, the system provides the patient's status in the clinical pathway, taking clinical guidelines into account, and suggests the next steps.

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