Sirona Medical Partners with Practices to Develop Radiology Operating System
Imaging informatics company Sirona Medical has announced partnerships with five radiology practices to develop and bring to market its radiology operating system (RadOS), which seeks to simplify workflow and boost the speed at which radiologists can read, diagnose, and report.
San Francisco-based Sirona Medical was founded in 2018 with the goal of unifying existing radiology IT applications, worklist, viewer, and reporter into a single, radiologist-centric platform. The company said its fully integrated Workspace, embedded with machine learning tools, allows radiologists to focus on the image and patient diagnosis rather than managing disparate technological components. In 2020, the company received $22.5 million in financing led by 8VC.
The five radiology practices Sirona is working with include California Advanced Imaging Medical Associates (CAIMA), Hackensack Radiology Group, and Triad Radiology Group. Sirona said these practices are responsible for nearly 2 percent of radiology reads in the United States, with an estimated total volume of 8.3 million studies across more than 100 facilities.
“Radiologists have a rare combination of medical and technical acumen, yet the technology provided to us thus far has only slowed us down, increasing opportunity for errors and in turn, decreasing our overall job satisfaction,” said Jay Kaiser, M.D., president, and medical director of CAIMA/North Orthopedic Imaging Association, in a statement. “We’re incredibly excited to partner with Sirona, help develop the RadOS platform, and implement a solution that we believe will revolutionize the practice of radiology as we know it today.”
Sirona Medical is led by a team of software engineers, data scientists, and radiology professionals including Alan Kaye, M.D., chief medical officer and former president of the American College of Radiology (ACR), as well as industry veterans from Sectra, Arterys, R2 Technologies, and others. Notable advisors include Curt Langlotz, M.D., Ph.D., director at the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI) at Stanford University; Chris Wood, former CTO at Intelerad; Ron Paulus, former CEO at Mission Health, and; Bob Baumgartner, executive chairman of the board at the Center for Diagnostic Imaging.
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