University of Iowa Healthcare rolls out first autonomous AI diagnostic system cleared by the FDA

Healthcare IT News: The University of Iowa Healthcare has become the first healthcare organization to implement IDx-DR, the first autonomous artificial intelligence diagnostic system cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The AI system, from vendor IDx, can detect diabetic retinopathy via medical imaging.

IDx is an AI diagnostics company focused on developing algorithms that detect diabetic retinopathy in adults, 22 years of age or older, diagnosed with diabetes who have not been previously diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy.

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