Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas and deepc have formed a partnership to integrate AI directly into radiology workflows. The collaboration is intended to help hospitals and imaging centers implement artificial intelligence (AI) to improve clinical consistency without complicating systems or radiology workflows.
deepc’s operating system, deepcOS®, will be available to work with the Konica Minolta Exa® Platform (Encompassing Exa® PACS|RIS, Exa® Enterprise, and Exa® Teleradiology). This will provide radiology teams with access to a curated library of regulatory-cleared AI applications from within their existing reading environment, with no need for separate systems or custom software builds.
The partnership’s approach will offer support for radiologists by making AI available inside familiar image viewers, helping to streamline case review and support clinical decisions. The cloud-native deployment will be optimized to reduce maintenance for IT teams, while also supporting data security and compliance needs for multi-site deployments. Hospitals will benefit from a lower technical overhead while gaining a scalable foundation for clinical AI use.
deepcOS® centralizes vendor-neutral AI apps into a single validated system. Konica Minolta’s experience in imaging software and enterprise healthcare IT will be leveraged in the partnership. The companies see the Konica Minolta deepc AI partnership as positioning healthcare providers to improve clinical workflow and diagnostic consistency while keeping the clinicians in control.
“At deepc, we focus on what happens after AI reaches the clinic,” said Alex King, Chief Revenue Officer at deepc. “By joining forces with Konica Minolta, we can bring validated, ready-to-use AI directly to Konica Minolta customers. Together, we are giving radiology teams the confidence to work smarter and the freedom to focus on what matters most: the patient in front of them.”
“At Konica Minolta, our Healthcare IT AI strategy is to provide our customers with a single source and single platform to utilize the power of AI-enabled insights. The Exa Platform integrates with deepcOS, providing radiologists a unified, seamless experience. We’re thrilled to partner with deepc to bring the value of an integrated AI platform to our shared customers,” stated Kevin Chlopecki, COO, Konica Minolta HCIT.