Empowered Patient Podcast Handheld Ultrasound Plus Artificial Intelligence Expanding Medical Imaging Applications with Ohad Arazi Clarius
Ohad Arazi, CEO of Clarius, a medical imaging startup with a mission to bring accurate, easy-to-use, AI-assisted, and affordable hand-held ultrasound tools to a broad range of medical professionals. Traditional ultrasound is costly, stationary, and requires specialized training. The portable Clarius device communicates with an iPad or an Android or iOS phone. The ultrasound produces highly nuanced grayscale real-time images that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can be used safely in a wider point-of-care environment to make informed decisions.
Ohad explains, "We're all about bringing together high-performance ultrasound imaging, cloud data, and artificial intelligence into this powerful ecosystem that improves patient care enabled by medical imaging in every setting. The key differentiation is that handheld ultrasound is not about replacing legacy systems in places where they're already well entrenched, like radiology or cardiology. It is rather about bringing medical imaging to new care settings and putting it in the hands of new practitioners that may not have had access to an ultrasound before."
"We can even extend that outside of the walls of the hospital into the ambulance. Powered by AI, we have a feature called Auto Preset AI, which, as the EMT roam through the patient's body, looking for trauma, our AI will automatically adapt the view of that image to optimize it for the organ the EMT is looking at. This lowers that threshold for knowledge to enable them to make a more informed decision. For example, to see that there might be stenosis in the carotid and they should radio the hospital and get the thrombectomy lab ready because there's a stroke patient on hand."
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