Durham medical AI leader TeraRecon makes quick shift to COVID-19 imaging
Summary
In 2017, it released a large algorithm marketplace, and a year later it launched a “results explorer,” which displays the AI-processed images in an interactive and efficient dashboard that gives physicians optimum control. The software automates contours, for example, and automatically segments the papillary muscles, arranging the resultant images across several panels that can be adjusted to the needs and preferences of each physician in a patients’ line of care. The question is, how do you boil that down into something that actually augments their workflow and improves their practice of care versus overwhelming them and confusing them.” The company often works with its clients, as it did with the new lung suites, to try to build what they need, even as it tries to anticipate the market and lead an ever-changing industry. Michael Poon, M.D., the director of noninvasive cardiac imaging at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, sings TeraRecon’s praises in a video clip on the company website and says he appreciates this kind of collaboration and the software’s ease of use. “I am able to talk to a doctor from anywhere in our health system, and if they need my expertise, I would be able to access the data and put it right in front of me so I can look at it quickly and offer my opinion.” But recent successes might not be sufficient a year from now.