After analyzing its Vizient Clinical Data Base, the company found that 130 hospital members were using the designated code for AI software in LVO detection — ICD-10-PCS procedure code 4A03X5D — in the second quarter of 2021, up from 63 hospitals in the fourth quarter of 2020. And the number of procedures also more than doubled.

“AI-assisted stroke triage and workflow platforms appear to be in the early stages of innovation adoption,” the authors wrote in volume 4 of Vizient’s Medical Device Tech Watch publication. “Currently, hundreds of U.S. hospitals use the technology and thousands…