xWave Technologies and Qure.ai Announce Strategic Collaboration
- Medical AI and Clinical Decision Support system to work in synergy to guide overworked radiology teams order and report on the right diagnostic test, first time
Qure.ai, a leading provider of medical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and xWave Technologies, which has developed a cloud-based Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system for radiology referrals, have today announced a strategic partnership.
The collaboration will focus on enhancing market access, product co-development and integration in order to identify opportunities to deliver advanced healthcare solutions globally that address critical healthcare challenges.
Darren Stephens, Senior Vice-President & Commercial Head UK and Europe, Qure.ai, said, “Together, Qure and xWave can create patient-centric efficiencies in the radiology pathway. By dovetailing clinical decision support with AI in imaging, clinicians will be further supported. Patients will gain quicker results and imaging departments will see reduced demand for unnecessary diagnostic appointments.
This will help to slow the growth of waiting lists, particularly in the NHS. Ordering the right test, first time, along with the efficiency gains of AI, will provide hospitals with powerful support when looking ahead to winter healthcare pressures.”
xWave Technologies, an Irish health technology company, is headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin.
Mitchell O’Gorman, Chief Executive Officer, xWave Technologies, said, “When we started xWave in 2020, one of the first organisations that we reached out to was Qure.ai. We were struck by the brilliance of its AI technology, the impact it was already delivering across the world and the clear fit between its offering and ours.
The xWave team is now looking forward to working closely with Qure.ai to co-develop innovative diagnostic solutions that aim to solve global health problems at scale.”
Qure.ai, headquartered in India with offices in London and New York, is one of the world’s most deployed medical AI companies, present in over 70 countries having grown in scale and size over seven years. Its certified medical imaging AI solutions for neurocritical trauma or stroke CTs; musculoskeletal x-ray fracture detection; and chest x-ray/CT for detection of lung cancer, TB or heart failure are used in collaboration with over 25 NHS Trusts and Health Boards in the UK.
xWave’s Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system has been developed in partnership with the European Society of Radiology (iGuide) and the Royal College of Radiologists (iRefer).
The CDS system expertly guides clinical referrers to order the best test for patients, ensuring patients get an early diagnosis, tackles radiology waiting lists and reduces clinician burnout.
ENDS
21 August 2023
For further information contact Micéal Whelan, Communications and Media Relations Manager, NovaUCD, e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie.
Editors Notes
xWave Technologies is on a mission to save lives by ensuring that patients get the best test first. The Federal Drug Administration estimates that between 20%-50% of advanced imaging might be unnecessary for patients. This can result in poor patient outcomes, such as missed diagnoses and delayed diagnoses, and can also exacerbate radiology waiting lists and cost health providers significant sums of money.
To solve this problem xWave Technologies have developed xWave CDS, a cloud-based clinical decision support system, to support referrers to order the best test first for their patients and to support radiology teams in vetting referrals more efficiently. xWave CDS has been developed in partnership with both the European Society of Radiology (iGuide) and the Royal College of Radiologists (iRefer) to enable referrers to access evidence-based guidelines to order the best test for their patient at the point of care. www.xwave.ie/
Qure.ai is a CE Class IIb per EU MDR certified health tech company that uses deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make healthcare more accessible and affordable to patients around the world in medical imaging & care coordination. Our technology fulfils a pertinent, unmet need in the radiology industry. With the aid of tools like those developed by Qure.ai, which work via a sophisticated set of algorithms that can instantly evaluate scans to prioritize actionable patient cases quickly, radiologists can focus their time and advanced skill sets on the most pressing diagnoses. https://qure.ai/