Nuance Communications and Covera Health this past week announced the launch of the Quality Care Collaborative, a new project they say is designed to support radiology quality improvement initiatives nationwide.

WHY IT MATTERS

The project is billed as the first such effort to convene payers, providers and self-insured employers to support imaging innovation at scale. 

Covera Health, which develops diagnostic analytics tools, is working with Nuance to help payers, self-insured employers and providers partner in their efforts to improve care quality, Covera CEO Ron Vianu said in a statement. 

“The ability to deliver AI-powered quality insights on demand, at scale, and within clinical workflows, fundamentally enhances the way AI is used in radiology to improve patient outcomes,” he said.

The QCC combines Covera’s analytics tools and Nuance’s Precision Imaging Network to help providers, payers and employers collaborate on quality improvement programs, peer-learning initiatives and value-based care efforts, the companies said.

Covera’s AHRQ-certified Patient Safety Organization can help clinicians share data with and receive insights from the QCC. Radiology practices in participating payers’ networks can opt in to the QCC to gain access to analytics and clinically validated AI tools that augment existing quality improvement programs.

The goal is a workflow-integrated infrastructure that enables radiologists to access quality analytics and support improved diagnostics, the companies said.

THE LARGER TREND

Since Microsoft’s $20 billion acquisition of Nuance in 2021, the company has been busy on a number of fronts, including a collaboration this past spring with Cerner.

As for imaging trends, see recent Healthcare IT News coverage on democratizing MRI to advance health equity, how AI can increase the effectiveness of point-of-care ultrasounds and how those devices can support health equity.

ON THE RECORD

“This is an AHRQ-certified Patient Safety program that can provide radiologists at their own discretion with additional AI-powered quality insights in their native workflows to help them continue to deliver the highest level of patient care, help combat the commoditization of radiology, all while knowing that their data is protected,” Nuance Chief Strategy Officer Peter Durlach said in a statement.

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