Houston, with its concentration of sprawling hospitals, is primed to become a proving ground for artificial intelligence in medicine.
For years, AI has helped Houston’s largest hospitals speed up stroke care by instantly analyzing brain scans, then delivering the information in real-time to physicians’ cellphones.
More recently, Texas Children’s Hospital developed its own AI software that can estimate bone age in children on hand X-rays — a routine task that now takes significantly less time with its technology. HCA Houston Healthcare, part of the largest for-profit health system in the U.S., is using AI to find brain aneurysms earlier. And Houston Methodist is deploying AI tools to flag pulmonary embolisms and other conditions on CT scans.
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