Partners HealthCare: "I sing the General Electric"

Massachusetts-based Partners HealthCare partnered with GE Healthcare last week on a projected 10-year collaboration to bring greater use of AI-based deep learning technology to healthcare. across the entire continuum of care. The collaboration will be executed through the newly formed Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Clinical Data Science and will feature co-located, multidisciplinary teams with broad access to data, computational infrastructure and clinical expertise.

The deal is something of a stake in the ground, as GE moves its HQ up from Conn to Boston. In the long term, Partners and GE hope to create new businesses around AI and healthcare.

The initial focus of the relationship will be on the development of applications aimed to improve clinician productivity and patient outcomes in diagnostic imaging. It will be interesting, as more details emerge, to see how this effort compares or contrasts with efforts such as IBM Watson Imaging Clinical Review -- a cognitive imaging offering from that company's Watson Health operation as part of a collaborative of 24 organizations worldwide. - Smiling Jack Shroud


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