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The Radiologist Shortage is Here

Ben White

It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: these are my opinions, formed from the combination of my biases, my experience as a radiologist since beginning residency 10 years ago, and my many conversations with radiologists across the country. Nationwide, the supply of radiologists is basically flat. Six weeks?!

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AuntMinnie 2008: Radiologist pays $7M to settle federal fraud claims

AuntMinnie

In 2008, our top article shared the story of a $7 million settlement for allegations of fraudulent Medicare billing. A Florida radiologist has paid the U.S. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. government $7 million to settle allegations of healthcare fraud.

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Onsite Women's Health acquires Cyran breast center in Ohio

AuntMinnie

Onsite has been partnering with breast-focused radiologists to offer a suite of breast health services that drive breast cancer screening compliance rates, according to the company. Katherine Cyran, MD, has been an independently contracted radiologist for several years, Onsite noted in its announcement.

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Therapixel, Onsite Women's Health ink partnership

AuntMinnie

It incorporates deep learning to help radiologists identify mammographic abnormalities that can be missed during manual review and has shown the ability to detect 42% of cancers one year prior to diagnosis and 38.5% Onsite was founded in 2008 and has performed more than two million exams across 26 states.

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HPI: Resident education work on decrease among attending radiologists

AuntMinnie

The time attending radiologists spend on resident education has decreased, even though overall workloads have increased, according to a study published October 22 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. But radiologists' aggregate workload increased 80% during the same time frame. in 2008 to 26.3%

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Can customized reader pairing boost mammo double reading performance?

AuntMinnie

In Europe, breast cancer screening involves double reading, where two interpreting radiologists review mammography images. However, radiologist pairing in this setting is done randomly, and screening performance varies among radiologists. per 1,000 exams 54.1 per 1,000 exams Abnormal interpretation rate (England) 68.2-70.5

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Direct imaging inputs improve performance of large language models

AuntMinnie

A team led by Pae Sun Suh, MD, from the University of Ulsan in Seoul, South Korea found that while ChatGPT-4V did not achieve as high an accuracy as radiologists, it showed promise as a supportive diagnostic tool. The team also set a statistical significance threshold of Meanwhile, eight subspecialty-trained radiologists solved cases.

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