Much of the AI in radiology is built to read images. Boring Radiology is betting on the opposite approach. The new company builds software for radiology departments and practices designed to work alongside the systems they already use. It focuses on the routine, non-interpretive tasks that eat into a radiologist’s day. boringrad
The company’s position is that image interpretation is what radiologists do best. Its software is meant to clear away everything else. boringrad
What Boring Radiology has built
The company’s initial tools address four everyday friction points:
- Hanging protocols: After a radiologist corrects a layout once, later cases hang the same way, including priors. boringrad
- Practice data search: Practices can search their own reports, orders and DICOM metadata. boringrad
- Clinical context: A tool called “Why am I reading this?” pulls the relevant clinical background out of lengthy EMR notes and prior reports. boringrad
- Downtime dictation: Radiologists can keep reading when PACS, EMR or reporting systems go down. boringrad
A team with a track record
Boring Radiology’s leadership has built and sold radiology software companies before.
- Montage: Boonn and Kim founded Montage Healthcare Solutions in Philadelphia in 2010. Nuance Communications acquired the analytics company in August 2016, and the product became mPower clinical analytics. Montage Healthcare Solutions +2
- Equium Intelligence: The pair went on to co-found Equium, with Boonn as CEO and Kim as chief medical officer. Rad AI acquired Equium in November 2022, adding its AI-based demand forecasting and resource optimization technology to Rad AI’s workflow products. The team says it then built Rad AI Reporting. rad ai completes acquisition of equium intelligence further enhancing radiologist led leadership team and enhancing workflow product portfolio +2
- HOPPR: Both joined imaging AI developer HOPPR, where they developed Presto, which automates workflow for AI-drafted reports. auntminnieboringrad
At Boring Radiology, Boonn is CEO and Kim is chief medical information officer. John Paulett serves as chief technology officer and Brandon Smith as chief financial officer. boringrad
See it at RSNA
Boring Radiology will exhibit in the AI Showcase in the South Hall, Booth 5761. More information is available at boringrad.com.
