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AuntMinnie 2006: How 64-slice CT saved my life: A radiologist's story

AuntMinnie

In 2006, our top article shared the story of a radiologist whose life was saved by a 64-slice CT scanner just installed at the hospital he worked at. Buying a major piece of imaging equipment is always a big moment for a radiologist. Benjamin Roach, MD, of Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Ashland, KY.

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The Negativity Tendency

Ben White

The late Hans Rosling gave an amazingly popular TED talk back in 2006 (and many other popular talks since). Do you hear about the patients who recover uneventfully in the hospital? As a radiologist, I only hear about my misses. You may have seen it. One could summarize: things can be bad but still be improving. Not really.

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Yellowcross Launches to Streamline Teleradiology Service Management

Imaging Technology

The two first worked together in 2006 at Nighthawk Radiology Services. Yellowcross works with hospitals, clinics, medical groups, and entrepreneurial physicians throughout the United States to develop focused service offerings to address radiologist shortages and provide specialty diagnostic services.

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Can open-source AI algorithms help clinical deployment?

AuntMinnie

Six hospitals from three National Health Service (NHS) Trusts contributed 2.5 million chest x-ray studies from a 13-year period (2006-2019), which yielded 1.94 million usable free-text reports written by radiologists and 1.89 To that end, the group first compiled the largest chest x-ray data set to date in the U.K.

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AuntMinnie 2007: Gadolinium: A 'necessary factor' in the development of NSF?

AuntMinnie

In 2006 the U.S. Louis hospital. Since then, reports on NFS and its connection to gadolinium have been pouring in: At the 2007 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna, Scottish radiologists reported on NSF episodes in the whole renal failure population of western Scotland. Clearly, a major problem is at hand.

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Yellowcross launches teleradiology management service

AuntMinnie

The two first worked together in 2006 at Nighthawk Radiology Services. Yellowcross works with hospitals, clinics, medical groups, and entrepreneurial physicians throughout the U.S. to develop focused service offerings to address radiologist shortages and provide specialty diagnostic services.

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The radiologist in 22 years time

Radiology Cafe

I believe that the first main difference seen in the radiologists role in 2040 will be the change that artificial intelligence (AI) will have made on the diagnostic role that radiologists currently perform. There are several protective factors, the first being that radiologists do much more than just report scans.