AI in radiology: There’ll be an ‘app store’ for that

Radiology is the medical specialty most conducive to clinical AI applications. After all, the pre-AI technique of computer-aided detection has been used in mammography since 1998, for example. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to find AI “app stores” rising in radiology.

The Harvard Business Review posted a piece looking at the development June 17.

Article co-authors Woojin Kim, MD, and Karen Holzberger, both executives with Nuance—which, it must be noted, is already in the “radiology app store” business—suggest that such AI marketplaces can serve two groups of stakeholders.

For doctors and hospitals, these marketplaces can offer one-stop shopping for an array of AI offerings. For...