Advocate Health is moving forward with a systemwide deployment of Aidoc’s artificial intelligence platform after completing a pilot phase that integrated AI-driven imaging tools across multiple sites.

The Charlotte, North Carolina-based nonprofit health system expects the expansion to enhance diagnostic efficiency and support earlier clinical intervention for tens of thousands of patients annually.

The agreement builds on an October 2024 pilot involving 22 sites in Wisconsin and North Carolina. That initiative incorporated three FDA-cleared Aidoc algorithms into clinical imaging workflows, aimed at identifying pulmonary embolisms, incidental pulmonary embolisms, and intracranial hemorrhages. According to Advocate Health, internal modeling suggests that roughly 63,000 patients per year could benefit from faster diagnoses as a result of the broader rollout.
“With oversight from expertly trained human providers, responsibly deployed imaging AI tools are a best practice in the specialty,” said Dr. Christopher Whitlow, enterprise chair of radiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, which serves as the academic core of Advocate Health.

Aidoc’s platform, branded as aiOS, will now be embedded throughout Advocate Health’s imaging infrastructure, which supports over 8 million imaging studies annually. The health system aims to leverage the technology to flag urgent findings more quickly, increase early disease detection, streamline workflow efficiency, and reduce imaging backlogs.

As part of the expansion, the platform will also support the detection of additional conditions, including rib and cervical spine fractures, pneumothorax, aortic dissection, abdominal free air, and brain aneurysms.

“Advanced AI triage algorithms provide me with additional peace of mind that my patients will get scanned, diagnosed and treated more quickly than was ever possible before,” said Dr. Jon Jennings, assistant medical director and chair of the AI and Technology Committee at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, part of Advocate Health.

Deployment is expected to continue across all regions and service lines over the coming months.

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