Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide a Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Radiology Artificial Intelligence (AI) software platform with multiple imaging AI applications for the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 1. The platform should be able to integrate with the VA Electronic Medical Health Record (EMHR), radiology Picture Archive and Communications Systems (PACS), and workflows to improve healthcare delivery to veterans and increase operational efficiency for VA. The contractor will be responsible for implementing the platform, providing training and support, and ensuring compliance with VA's technical reference model and security requirements.
Some key features of the platform include:
* Ability to process DICOM raw images and associated metadata for medical radiology images
* Ability to provide a broad AI marketplace of additional AI solutions beyond the initial AI solutions procured
* Ability to run custom (local) medical imaging algorithms through a standard predefined API
* Ability to generate modality independent, contractor neutral outputs
* Ability to route outputs back to all required DICOM archives, including VA PACS, Vista Imaging, and VA enterprise
* Ability to integrate natively into PACS viewing software using conventional interfaces such as DICOM Secondary Capture (SC)
* Ability to perform quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) on deployed models
* Ability to archive user feedback, including identifying algorithm errors or other operational issues
* Ability to support bulk transfer of DICOM data from VA PACS to external node, including VA enterprise cloud
* Ability to support image-level and header-level deidentification
* Ability to support imaging data annotation, including classification, object localization, and segmentation
* Ability to support extended algorithm functionality provided by third-party applications