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Aurora, ON, May 14, 2025 – Bialogics Analytics Inc., a leader in radiology informatics, proudly announces the launch of its new AI solution AI Intelligence Quotient (AIQ), a first-of-its-kind, evidence-driven framework for continuous, real-time assessment of AI systems in diagnostic imaging.
Despite AI’s growing presence in radiology, lingering doubts about reliability, transparency, and real-world effectiveness are challenging widespread adoption. AIQ addresses these concerns head-on with a robust, evidence-based methodology that empowers radiologists and healthcare leaders to monitor, validate, and optimize the use of AI solutions to achieve clinical impact and measurable outcomes.
“With AIQ, we’re shifting AI evaluation from intuition and isolated testing to a continuous, data-backed strategy that aligns with the clinical rigour that radiology demands,” said Jeff Vachon, President of Bialogics. “This is evidence-driven AI performance in action, where
real-world metrics directly empower clinical practice.”
Key Features of the Evidence-Driven AIQ Framework:
- Real-time Monitoring: Validates AI outputs against radiologist-grounded diagnoses for ongoing quality control and assurance.
- AIQ calculates AI Quotients by measuring core performance indicators in real-time, including Concordance, Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive Value (NPV), Accuracy, and Enhanced Detection Rate (EDR), enabling evidence-based AI adoption.
- Workflow Optimization Metrics: Assesses AI’s impact on report turnaround time, productivity, and radiologist workload; translating technical performance into operational value.
- Bias and Drift Detection: Identifies demographic disparities and predictive drift, ensuring AI performs reliably across populations and over time.
- AIQ Score: A composite, weighted performance score reflecting clinical validity and operational efficiency, tailored to disease-specific applications.
By integrating diagnostic metrics with workflow and clinical utility data, AIQ enables healthcare organizations and AI providers to adopt AI responsibly and transparently, anchoring decisions in a standardized framework of evidence-driven AI performance.
“Healthcare leaders need more than just theoretical models, they need proof,” added Vachon. “AIQ gives them the clinical evidence, operational insights, and real-time data needed to confidently evaluate and implement AI technologies at scale.”
With AIQ, Bialogics is setting a new benchmark for AI accountability in radiology, ensuring that innovation is guided by evidence, transparency, and improved outcomes. Our vendor-agnostic platform allows for direct integration of AI Algorithms and workflow platforms.
About Bialogics
Bialogics Analytics Inc. is a leading health informatics company specializing in transforming radiology operations through real-time, data-informed decision support. By bringing transparency and trust to AI deployment, Bialogics empowers healthcare providers to achieve clinical excellence through evidence-driven insights across radiology.
Contact:
Jeff Vachon
President and CEO of Bialogics Email: jvachon@bialogics.com Website: www.bialogics.com
Bialogics, a leading provider of data analytics and business intelligence solutions for diagnostic imaging, is proud to announce its selection by US Radiology Specialists, one of the nations largest radiology providers, to deliver advanced business and clinical intelligence and AI performance monitoring across its expansive network of physician-owned radiology practices and diagnostic imaging centers. US Radiology’s decision to partner with Bialogics underscores its commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance operational efficiency, improve clinical outcomes, and drive patient satisfaction. Bialogics; innovative solutions will enable US Radiology Specialists to harness the power of data analytics, providing actionable insights that support strategic decision-making and optimize imaging services.
Key Benefits of the Partnership Include:
Through Bialogics data analytics platform, DImax, US Radiology will have immediate access to crucial information to drive operational efficiency, including streamlining workflow management, reducing bottlenecks, and increasing productivity across the US Radiology network. additionally, Bialogics comprehensive business intelligence tools will empower US Radiology to make informed decisions, optimize resource allocation, and drive financial growth. “We are excited to partner with US Radiology Specialists and bring our advanced analytics capabilities to their network of physician practices,” said Jeff Vachon, President of Bialogics. “This collaboration represents a significant milestone in our mission to revolutionize healthcare through data-driven solutions. We look forward to supporting US Radiology Specialists in its journey to enhance clinical and operational excellence.” Leadership at US Radiology expressed enthusiasm about the partnership, highlighting the transformative potential of integrating Bialogics; solutions into their operations. “Partnering with Bialogics aligns with our vision of being at the forefront of radiology innovation,” said Rich Adams, Senior Vice President at US Radiology. “Bialogics’ expertise in business and clinical intelligence will be instrumental in achieving our goals of delivering exceptional patient care and operational excellence.” The implementation of Bialogics platform across US Radiology’s imaging centers will represent one of the largest deployments of its kind with the integration of over 7.0 million exams a year across 9 regional partners representing 80 hospitals and 175 imaging centers. This partnership marks a significant step forward in the evolution of radiology services, setting a new standard for data-driven healthcare delivery. For more information about Bialogics and its innovative solutions,
About Bialogics
Bialogics is a leading provider of data analytics and business intelligence solutions for the healthcare industry. With a mission to revolutionize Medical Imaging by turning data into actionable insights that drive operational excellence, enhance productivity, and improve clinical and financial outcomes. About US Radiology Specialists US Radiology is one of the country’s premier providers of diagnostic imaging services. With over 5,000 team members and more than 175 outpatient imaging centers across 13 states, their team conducts more than 7 million studies annually. Their partnership of leading subspecialized radiology groups, high-quality imaging centers, and joint ventures with top health systems is built around a commitment to best-in-class clinical excellence, operations, infrastructure, and state-of-the-art technology.
Contact:
Jeff Vachon
President
jvachon@bialogics.com
AURORA, Ontario, May 11, 2023 (Newswire.com) – Radiology Imaging Associates (RIA) of Englewood, Colorado, a radiology practice with 125 physicians performing more than 1.5 million exams per year at 60 locations across Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas and Hawaii, has acquired Bialogics Analytics Inc.’s DImax solution to optimize diagnostic imaging workflow and quality control reporting.
Bialogics’ unique, vendor-agnostic solution provides RIA with advanced analytics by incorporating data from multiple sources into one comprehensive reporting system.
RIA traditionally relied solely on data from its financial system to ensure the right number of radiologists by sub-specialty to meet service level agreements with the hospitals and clinics it serves but acquisition of the Bialogics’ DImax solution provides RIA with a timelier and much more accurate workflow analysis by incorporating data from all RIS/PACS systems as well as from its Physician scheduling software, Peer Review and Sub-Specialty applications and Reading Value Unit lookup tables. It also uses a natural language processing engine to extract data from radiologist reports and process nonstructured textual data into searchable structured data elements.
“The efficient management of our practice requires us to know the number of cases coming in and our capacity to read them,” explained RIA president Dr. Brendan Essary. “That’s more complicated than it sounds because we’re a sub-specialty practice providing 24/7 coverage over a large geographical region. The Bialogics Dimax solution can tell us, for example, if we need to add a slot on the weekend from noon to 7 p.m. It identifies bottlenecks, highlights opportunities to boost productivity, and allows us to tweak our scheduling software.”
Analyzing radiologist productivity based on the volume of studies and turnaround times alone can be deceiving because it doesn’t take into consideration a venue such as a hospital’s busy DI department, where interruptions are common. “One radiologist may read a lot less than another radiologist but is in a slot that isn’t productive,” said Dr. Essary. “By accessing data from our scheduling software, Bialogics gives us a more accurate workflow analysis that includes the productivity of both the slot and the radiologist.”
The Bialogics DImax solution also provides RIA with comprehensive quality assurance metrics on critical results reporting, follow-up studies, and turnaround times that it’s able to share with its customers.
“It’s great to sit down with a CEO and tell him we’re quality-focused, but if you don’t have any data or any specifics, what’s the point?” asked Dr. Essary. “At quarterly meetings with our clients, we go over critical results reporting, turnaround times, and a total of some 20 metrics to present a data-driven review of our performance.”
The quality assurance data on critical results reporting, for example, uses the natural language processing engine to confirm prompt communication of the result to an attending physician.
“We can track performance from the moment a patient requisition has been entered into the RIS,” said Bialogics president Jeff Vachon. “Every single message and procedural step is tracked across the radiology workflow, so we know how long the patient waited, who the tech was, their prep time, their scan time, the radiologist’s turnaround time, etc. If there’s a two-minute delay that can impact service-level agreements and penalize a radiation practice, that’s meaningful information our customers can use to optimize productivity and improve patient access to diagnostic imaging.”
The system can also be used to simplify cohort identification and accelerate data collection and correlation for research across clinical systems, specialties, and patient populations for research projects and AI analysis.
About Bialogics Analytics Inc.
Bialogics (bialogics.com) is a leader in the precision analysis of diagnostic imaging data and patient workflows, creating a real-time ecosystem for driving the accelerated use of clinical and operational data to improve business performance and clinical outcomes. Bialogics was established in 2016 and has customers in Canada, the United States, and Australia. Learn more about Bialogics Analytics at www.bialogics.com
About Radiology Imaging Associates
Radiology Imaging Associates (riaco.com) of Englewood, Colorado, is a radiology practice encompassing 125 radiologists who perform more than 1.5 million studies per year for some 60 clinics and hospitals across Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Hawaii. Most of its radiologists are fellowship-trained in their fields of specialty. RIA is dedicated to accurate and efficient patient diagnosis and its interventional radiologists perform some of the most leading-edge treatments available today.
Patients are undergoing more medical imaging studies than ever before, which has resulted in a significant increase in the cost of healthcare delivery. This trend will likely continue as technological advances shorten scan times, reduce modality prices and cut radiation doses.