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Penn. radiologist charged with child sexual exploitation

AuntMinnie

Homeland Security Investigations in Pittsburgh and Chicago conducted the investigation leading to the indictment, with the case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat “the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse,” the statement noted.

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Can open-source AI algorithms help clinical deployment?

AuntMinnie

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. Six hospitals from three National Health Service (NHS) Trusts contributed 2.5

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Radiology Partners enlists IKS Health for administrative help

AuntMinnie

IKS Health has partnered with Radiology Partners to implement a generative AI-powered care enablement platform intended to increase clinical capacity for radiologists. The platform will offer Radiology Partners' 3,900 radiologists opportunities to reduce burdens by offloading nonclinical tasks, according to the companies.

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Cannabis may influence bowel motility

AuntMinnie

Gunther, a radiologist at UT Health San Antonio, and colleagues penned an article published in the March issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology titled, “Got the Munchies for an Egg Sandwich?

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ISCT: New professional positions could relieve RT workforce strain

AuntMinnie

For CT technologists, specifically, the survey reported 18% position vacancies, with the number of people entering the imaging workforce dropping 20% since 2006 and worsening in 2020 with the COVID pandemic, Rubin explained. "We are at a moment in time where we have the greatest number of vacancies across the field that we've ever had."

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Yellowcross launches teleradiology management service

AuntMinnie

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

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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). As a radiologist, I only hear about my misses. About once a year, someone congratulates me on a good catch, and usually, that’s coming from another radiologist who read the follow-up. You may have seen it. No, they do not.