ARCH-AI Can Help Radiology Sites Safely and
Effectively Implement AI in Daily Practice
RESTON,
Va., June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- The American College of Radiology®
(ACR®) today launched the ACR Recognized Center for
Healthcare-AI (ARCH-AI), the first national artificial intelligence
quality assurance program for radiology facilities.
The program, built on best practices, outlines expert
consensus-based building blocks of infrastructure, processes and
governance in AI implementation in real-world practice.
By working toward, and attesting to, compliance within the
tenets of the program, participation in ARCH-AI can help radiology
practices provide safe and effective implementation of AI products
and help radiologists provide better patient care.
"AI is different from previous technologies," said Christoph Wald, MD, PhD, MBA, FACR, vice chair
of the ACR Board of Chancellors and chair of the ACR Commission on
Informatics. "Even a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-cleared AI
product must be tested locally to ensure it works safely and as
intended. Practice leaders must put safeguards in place to
maximize the benefit of AI products while minimizing risk; ARCH-AI
is a low-cost, efficient system to help sites do that."
ARCH-AI site recognition criteria include:
- Establishing an interdisciplinary AI governance group.
- Maintaining an inventory of AI algorithms with detailed
documentation.
- Ensuring adherence to security and compliance measures.
- Engaging in diligent review and selection of AI
algorithms.
- Documenting use cases and training procedures.
- Monitoring algorithm performance, including safety and
effectiveness.
- Contributing to the "Assess-AI" central AI registry for
performance benchmarking.
"ARCH-AI can help radiology practices structure QA
processes that help them plan for what can go wrong, including the
development of good AI governance practices, acceptance testing and
effectiveness monitoring of AI products to ensure they continue to
function as expected over time," said Keith
J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, ACR Data Science
Institute® (DSI®) chief science officer.
Radiology practices that complete the ARCH-AI process will
receive an ACR Recognition badge to display in their waiting rooms
and lobbies to demonstrate to their communities, patients, payers
and referring physicians that they are committed to integrating AI
in a safe, responsible manner that allows them to provide the best
possible modern healthcare.
"ARCH-AI provides a great blueprint and assists radiology
facilities with AI implementation," said Bibb Allen Jr., MD, FACR,
ACR DSI chief medical officer. "DSI also offers AICentral.org, a
database of FDA-cleared imaging AI products, and Assess-AI, the
ACR's AI registry that can support local AI acceptance testing and
monitoring. These ACR programs can help practices meet ARCH-AI
standards and receive meaningful guidance and assistance in
implementing AI in a safe and effective manner for their
patients."
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SOURCE American College of Radiology