Gastroenterologists at the health system used Medtronic’s GI Genius tool over the six-month study period.
Based on the positive results, the health system plans to install GI Genius in its nine acute care hospitals and four outpatient facilities in the Chicago suburbs, according to a May 10 Northwestern news release.
“This means that computer-aided colonoscopies could reduce future colon cancer diagnoses by up to 39 percent,” Rajesh Keswani, MD, director of endoscopy for Northwestern Memorial Hospital and director of quality for the Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Center, said in the release. “The results could even be more dramatic in suburban or rural hospitals, where fewer screening colonoscopies are performed and there may be more variation in quality.”
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