VisualDx Announces Collaboration with Janssen to Pilot New API and Bring Equitable AI to the Point of Care
Rochester,
NY – Month, Day, 2021 – VisualDx, a
global leader in web-based clinical
decision support (CDS), today
announced that it has entered into an
agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc.,
one of the pharmaceutical companies
of Johnson & Johnson. Through thiscollaboration, the Research & Development data
science team at Janssen will leverage the VisualDx application programming
interface (API) as a beta partner and the
new interface will
enable provider organizations and other healthcare technology
companies to bring VisualDx’s industry-defining CDS
into third-party applications to enhance diagnostic accuracy and
improve health outcomes,
particularly for traditionally marginalized patient populations. This agreement was
facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation.
For more than 20 years, VisualDx has
focused on building solutions that reduce racial
and other forms of bias in
the clinical decision-making process. As a result, VisualDx maintains
hundreds of thousands of professional diagnostic medical images in its
collection, with more than one-third of those images in pigmented skin. The VisualDx API will
enable end users
to assess skin disorders from images, assisted
by VisualDx’s AI, which
is scientifically proven to
analyze from light to dark
skin images, with
the same degree of accuracy.
“The
medical community is finally reckoning with its history of racism and
underrepresentation of people of color in
clinical training,” said Dr. Art Papier, CEO and
co-founder at VisualDx.
“VisualDx technology
can help reverse that narrative by bringing
expertise on skin of color to providers of all specialties. We’re
thrilled to have a global leader in medicine help us
in our efforts to validate our API, be
a strategic partner in research and to place our platform
into the hands of even more clinicians for the
benefit of patients around the world.”
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About VisualDx
VisualDx is an award-winning diagnostic
clinical decision support system that has become the standard medical
professional resource at more than 50% of U.S. medical schools and more than
2,300 hospitals and clinics worldwide. VisualDx combines
problem oriented clinical search with the world's best curated medical image
library, plus medical knowledge from experts and sophisticated machine learning
algorithms to help with differential diagnosis, variation, treatment, and
patient communication. Our mission is to improve healthcare decision making and
reduce diagnostic errors. Learn more at www.visualdx.com.
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