Lunit (CEO Website positioning Beom-seok), a medical artificial intelligence (AI) specialist, announced on the twenty sixth that ‘CXR-AID’, developed based on ‘Lunit Insight CXR’ and sold by Fujifilm, has been officially certified for Japan’s medical health insurance profit addition.

CXR-AID is an AI image evaluation solution that assists medical staff in diagnosis by detecting abnormal findings in chest X-rays.

In Japan’s medical health insurance profit system, through the ‘Image diagnosis management addition 3’ item, which is a fee item for CT and MRI, additional additional fees are added when appropriate safety management of AI image diagnosis software is performed in accordance with safety standards in hospitals with certain facility requirements. is acknowledging

The Japanese Society of Radiology (JRS) recently designated AI software subject to additional 3 items of imaging diagnosis management, and officially certified 17 AI solutions, including CXR-AID.

Accordingly, if a Japanese hospital with certain facility requirements uses 17 AI solutions including CXR-AID, 300 points for the present variety of photographers plus 40 points for using AI solutions, for a complete of 340 points (akin to 3,400 yen) salary will likely be applied.

Lunit expects that the appliance of this salary will greatly increase the profitability of the Japanese market and can turn out to be a latest global growth momentum that can expand the bottom of the AI ​​image diagnosis business field.

Ryuji Hisanaga, General Manager of Fujifilm IT Solutions, said, “The appliance of this CXR-AID to medical health insurance is anticipated to extend patient access to medical AI solutions and reduce the burden of medical expenses.” Additionally it is positive that it is extremely prone to be applied to hospitals and clinics in the longer term.”

Website positioning Beom-seok, CEO of Lunit, said, “It’s the primary case in Japan that a product based on Lunit AI solution has been certified as an insurance profit. I hope to receive advantages,” he said.

Meanwhile, Lunit entered right into a partnership with Japan’s Fujifilm in 2019 and signed an exclusive sales contract for Lunit Insight in Japan.

Fujifilm is supplying medical equipment and solutions to greater than 25,000 hospitals and clinics in Japan, and the availability of CXR-AID to the medical institutions can also be rapidly expanding, so future growth potential is anticipated to be large.

Reporter Juyoung Lee juyoung09@aitimes.com