GE HealthCare and Diagnoly partner to bring AI to fetal ultrasound workflows
GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) announced a collaboration with Diagnoly to integrate the company's Fetoly solution into Voluson women's health ultrasound systems. The goal: help clinicians run standardized fetal exams with real-time quality checks and decision support-without slowing down the scan.
Fetoly is an FDA-cleared and CE-marked, real-time AI solution for fetal ultrasound. It supports heart and brain analysis while continuously verifying exam completeness and key quality criteria during the scan. Integrated with Voluson, it's built to support more consistent screening and give clinicians clearer guardrails in high-stakes exams.
What Fetoly adds to Voluson
- Standardized fetal exam workflows, applied consistently across operators.
- Real-time verification of exam completeness and quality criteria.
- AI-based support focused on fetal heart and brain analysis.
- Potential time savings by surfacing the right views and reducing repeat imaging.
Why this matters for care teams
Obstetric ultrasound is both powerful and complex. As Diagnoly notes, up to 50% of fetal abnormalities can go undetected during pregnancy, often due to variability in image acquisition and interpretation. AI-based assistance aims to improve accuracy, access, and consistency-especially in busy clinics and mixed-experience teams.
For maternal-fetal medicine, this kind of real-time guidance can help standardize quality, reduce missed views, and flag gaps before the patient leaves the room. The clinical upside is straightforward: fewer repeat scans, faster reads, and more confidence in findings.
The Voluson platform
GE HealthCare's Voluson systems combine high-performance hardware with flexible, scalable software and an ergonomic design. The latest releases-Voluson Signature 20 and 18, launched in 2024-were built to shorten exam time and deliver clearer imaging across a range of women's health indications.
What the companies are saying
Gerald Seifriedsberger, GM, Women's Health Ultrasound at GE HealthCare, said the collaboration extends the company's focus on bringing AI to clinicians and integrating screening support directly into Voluson systems to improve care for women and their babies.
Ivan Voznyuk, co-founder and CEO of Diagnoly, highlighted the complexity of obstetric ultrasound and the detection gap, adding that integrating Fetoly into trusted Voluson systems reflects a shared commitment to support clinicians in real time and strengthen maternal and fetal outcomes.
What to do next if you lead ultrasound or OB imaging
- Review current fetal protocols and map them to Fetoly's completeness and quality criteria.
- Plan a phased rollout: start with a pilot group of sonographers and MFM physicians, then expand.
- Define governance: who reviews AI suggestions, how discrepancies are resolved, and how feedback loops improve performance.
- Validate locally: track exam duration, image quality metrics, and detection rates pre/post integration.
- Cover IT basics early: model compatibility, DICOM/PACS routing, role-based access, and data security.
- Train the team on interpreting AI outputs and documenting how AI supported final decisions.
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