Imaging Technology

MAY 10, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 05/10/2024 - 08:05 May 10, 2024 — Insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were linked with an increase in patients receiving care at accredited cancer hospitals in Pennsylvania, according to a study published in Health Services Research by University of Pittsburgh researchers. There was an increase of 6.2

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 30, 2024

Medicare payments for radiation therapy services have been cut by 23% since 2013, threatening patient access to cancer care in communities across the country, with further cuts likely in coming years. ACR Board of Chancellors Chair Jacqueline A.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 14, 2024

In a study, Claire Crowley and Manisha Bahl, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that screening-detected radial scars without atypia at core-needle biopsy have a low upstaging rate to breast cancer of less than 2%. It excluded women without surgical excision or at least two years of imaging follow-up after biopsy.

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JVIR

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These payment reforms, coupled with private equity and hospital system acquisitions, have been challenging for small physician practices to navigate and may be prompting IRs to join larger practice groups.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 21, 2024

Additionally, all exams performed from 2013 to 2019 included digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). Consideration is needed for breast cancer screening in women younger than 40 years, according to research presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

The trial was conducted from January 2013 through October 2018 in six public hospitals across Sweden. The primary outcome was curve progression of 6° or less (treatment success) or curve progression of more than 6° (treatment failure) seen on posteroanterior standing x-rays before and after the intervention.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 16, 2023

“The deep learning (DL) model may guide clinical decision-making in the management of patients with CAP by identifying high-risk patients who warrant hospitalization and intensive treatment,” concluded first author Eui Jin Hwang, MD, PhD, from the department of radiology at Seoul National University College of Medicine in Korea.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 28, 2024

Medicare regulations Medicare first issued its Place of Service (POS) reporting regulations with an effective date of April 1, 2013. An exception to this rule is for inpatients of a hospital or other facility that might be transported to an imaging center for an exam. The POS code is to be entered in Box 24 of claim forms.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 1, 2024

In an open forum, Yi Xiang Tay, of Singapore University Hospital's radiography and diagnostic imaging department, shared his team's research. After a critical appraisal of hundreds of citations published between 2013 and March 2023, the researchers gleaned 31 studies for their narrative review.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 26, 2023

"[The] E-I ratio that quantifies the screening-eligible versus incident cases was 53% lower [under the PLCOm2012-Update] among African Americans compared with White participants under the 2021 USPSTF guidelines -- despite the increased eligibility among African American individuals … compared with the 2013 USPSTF guidelines [21.4%

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Researchers led by Dan Do from Massachusetts General Hospital reported that while the abnormal interpretation rate was higher during the year after diagnosis compared to subsequent years, it remained at less than 10% in all years of their six-year study. It included retrospective data from DBT exams performed between 2013 and 2019.

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Everything Rad

JUNE 28, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. In May 2021, St James’s Hospital in Dublin was one of 54 public hospitals affected when the Health Service Executive (HSE) was the victim of a Cyber Attack by Conti, a sophisticated, financially-motivated criminal gang.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 9, 2024

Founded in 2013, Lunit, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, with a network of offices worldwide, harnesses AI-powered medical image analytics and AI biomarkers to ensure accurate diagnosis and optimal treatment for each cancer patient.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 12, 2024

For commercial providers and hospital pathology departments alike, it offers a route to meet growing demand. The flexibility and efficiency improvement it delivers (up to 21% greater efficiency [1] than traditional analog workflows) help mitigate today’s chronic shortage of trained pathologists as well as reducing costs.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 29, 2024

Am J Cardiol 2013. in the paper but 2.7% to ≈0.99 (p<0.001) Mean MPI/Tei Index≈ 0.47 to 4.0mg/hr typically given in EKOS therapy (See Below). A Randomized Trial of the Optimum Duration of Acoustic Pulse Thrombolysis Procedure in Acute Intermediate-Reisk Pulmonary Embolism: The OPTALYSE PE Trial. JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2018.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 19, 2023

He received the ACR Gold Medal in 2013 and the Florida Radiological Society Gold Medal in 1995. The 2023 Emerging Leader Scholarship recipients are: Rachel Grenier, MD , Massachusetts General Hospital Interventional Radiology Integrated Program Gerald Hefferman, MD , Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School Russell A.

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Everything Rad

JULY 24, 2023

Por el Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI St James’s Hospital – Trinity College de Dublín. Algunos centros fuera de nuestro hospital pudieron configurar redes temporales con un mini PACS. Además, supervisó la transición de PACS cuando fue director clínico en el hospital más grande de Irlanda de 2013 a 2019.

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In non-PCI-capable hospitals this goal is not always achievable due to delays in transfer. Background: Primary PCI is the recommended reperfusion strategy in patients with STEMI and should be initiated within 2 hours after first medical contact. In these cases, thrombolysis is recommended to improve morbidity and mortality. Primary PCI: 95.7%

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Interestingly, though not statistically significant, patients in the serial US group had a longer length of hospital stay compared to the control group (4d vs 3d). Additionally, the serial US group had higher hospital readmission rates on days 0-7 and 8-30 without improving hospital or 30-day mortality. R I Med J (2013).

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REBEL EM

MAY 29, 2024

If you treat a posterior bleed at a hospital without ENT, I would transfer as surgical intervention is pretty common REBEL EM: Do Patients with Epistaxis Managed by Nasal Packing Require Prophylactic Antibiotics? Laryngoscope 2013; 123: 2928-9. This will be pretty location specific. Acad Emerg Med 1995; 25(5): 592-6.

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 25, 2024

Bien Soo Tan, MBBS, FSIR, is a senior consultant in the Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and a clinical professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School. He is active in research and has authored several publications in key interventional radiology clinical trials. Meet the 2023 Dr. Charles T.

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REBEL EM

MAY 11, 2023

History of liver disease, history of substance abuse disorder, and history of delirium tremens were also extracted from the hospital EMR. 11 of those were admitted to the hospital. J Emerg Med 2013 , 44 (3), 592-598.e592. Am J Emerg Med 2013 , 31 (4), 734-742. DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.07.056 2012.07.056 From NLM. (5)

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CurveBeam AI

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Dr. Scott Ellis, MD Professor Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY Dr. Francois Lintz, MD, MSc, CSCT Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Clinique d L’UNION Toulouse, France That’s easy: I use it for every single patient.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, management continues to be debated and may lead to unnecessary hospitalization. Previous studies regarding ambulatory management included randomized trials that lacked adequate power, and recently, a 2013 systematic review that, although showed promise in the ambulatory approach, had poor data quality with a high risk of bias.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 21, 2023

This included changes in the ages at which women were recommended to start getting annual mammograms or all adults were recommended to get colonoscopies or other tests for colorectal cancer, as well as the introduction in 2013 of CT scan-based screening for lung cancer in certain current or past smokers.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 12, 2024

Hospitals should be cautious in deciding to put their efforts towards them when the data from this trial has actually shown that it works in a diversified patient population such as that which exists in the United States. Contemp Clin Trials. Epub 2022 Aug 28. PMID: 36038001 Levi TM, et al. Rev Bras Ter Intensiva.

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CurveBeam AI

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Dr. Scott Ellis, MD Professor Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY Dr. Francois Lintz, MD, MSc, CSCT Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Clinique d L’UNION Toulouse, France Cone Beam weightbearing CT is technologically a revolving radiographic setup: it’s effectively a 3D radiograph.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

"Our findings support the widely held notion that HIE can reduce redundant medical services and thereby produce cost savings," wrote lead author Eric Lammers, PhD, and colleagues in the journal Medical Care (December 26, 2013). If all hospital-based EDs in California and Florida fully participated in HIE, more than $2.9

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Louis, MO, and stayed on as Washington University faculty for 15 years before joining the Mayo Clinic-Arizona in 2013 as professor of radiology. Under a long-standing agreement between the state and the federal government, all Maryland hospitals receive a single, annual global payment for their services, similar to capitation.

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Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

She had studied, worked and lived in the US for 21 years It was in 2013 she realized that she needs to go back home to Uganda to utilize all the skills she had learnt to further improve the health care at home in whatever small way she could. Thus, the dream of The Clinic at The Mall began.

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

JACC Heart Fail 2013. OMT: 38.0% HR 0.99; 95% CI 0.78 to 1.27; p = 0.96 Also no difference in the individual components of the composite outcome Left ventricular ejection fraction at 6 months similar (Mean diff -1.6%; 95% CI -3.7 Left ventricular ejection fraction at 12 months similar (Mean diff 0.9%; 95% CI -1.7 OMT: 38.0% to 1.27; p = 0.96

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Aidoc

JULY 5, 2023

AI for CAC Emergent cardiovascular diseases strain hospital resources, but one of the most useful, non-invasive tools in predicting the likelihood of coronary artery disease – CAC scoring delivered through chest CT – is frequently not leveraged effectively for proactive disease management. link] 2 Williams, K.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 23, 2023

REBEL Cast Ep115 – Phenobarbital vs Lorazepam in Alcohol Withdrawal Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast Clinical question : Is a phenobarbital-based or lorazepam-based alcohol detoxification protocol associated with a lower hospital length of stay compared to Ativan for alcohol withdrawal? Paper : Hawa F et al.

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Everything Rad

JUNE 12, 2023

Adrian Brady, presidente de la Sociedad Europea de Radiología y radiólogo consultor del Hospital de la Universidad de Mercy en Cork, Irlanda. Es director médico del Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) (con sede en el Hospital de la Universidad de Mercy). Ocurren errores en la elaboración de informes en radiología.

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Everything Rad

JUNE 12, 2023

Por: Professor Adrian Brady, presidente da European Society of Radiology e consultor em radiologia do Mercy University Hospital em Cork, na Irlanda. Ele é chefe da equipe médica do Centro Nacional Irlandês de Telangiectasia Hemorrágica Hereditária (Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangietasia, HHT), com sede no Mercy University Hospital.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 18, 2022

Fletcher, MD, FACEP and Nicholas Slattery, MD Background: Diverticulitis is a common finding amongst Emergency Department patients, accounting for more than 360,000 visits in 2013 alone 1. 14/238 patients in the antibiotic group required hospitalization, compared to 8/242 in the non-antibiotic group (2.58% difference, 95% CI 6.32

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Imaging Technology

MAY 22, 2024

The company, founded in 2013, which has offices in Boston, MA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Shangha, China, reports that its FDA-cleared and CE-marked Lunit INSIGHT suite for cancer screening serves over 3,000 hospitals and medical institutions across 40+ countries. “We

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