Average radiologist pay has leapt nearly 38% since 2015
Radiology Business
MAY 25, 2023
Members of the specialty have seen their compensation climb from $351K to $483K, according to the latest data from Medscape.
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Thousands of radiology practices have lost their independence amid waves of consolidation
Radiology Business
JUNE 5, 2024
Between 2015 and 2022, nearly 3,500 physician practices that provide radiology services disappeared from the Medicare Provider Data Log, according to the Neiman Health Policy Institute.
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Pritzker family-backed Epic Staffing Group acquires teleradiology outfit
Radiology Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Independently owned and launched in 2015, the radiology practice is “committed to providing the most efficient, quality reads in nearly 50 states."
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Higher pay in specialties such as diagnostic radiology correlates with lower levels of diversity
Radiology Business
AUGUST 4, 2023
Full professors in imaging earned median compensation of about $500,320 between 2015-2022, researchers wrote Thursday in JAMA.
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Jury awards woman $7.6M in breast cancer diagnosis-related malpractice case
Radiology Business
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The case dates to 2015, when Kentuckian Kimberly Johnson received an erroneous letter from the local hospital stating that she was cancer-free.
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Long-time Field Service Engineer Duane Losh Receives Service Excellence Award
Cassling's MRI
MARCH 15, 2024
The award, created in 2015, recognizes employees who go above and beyond in exemplifying the organization’s culture and commitment to providing world-class service. As one of Cassling’s longest-tenured employees, Duane is a true pioneer of “The Cassling Way” and an embodiment of the organization’s culture.
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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis
REBEL EM
AUGUST 30, 2023
Most common organism is Staph Aureus (36-67% of cases) ( Boody 2015 ). Executive Summary: 2015 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adults. Clin Infect Dis 2015 Sept 15;61(6):859-63. Other pathogens include: E.
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REBEL Core Cast 85.0 – Superficial Venous Thrombosis
REBEL EM
JULY 20, 2022
White 2003 ) The most common locations of SVT of the lower extremity are: ( Cosmi 2015 ) Long saphenous vein – 50-60% Short saphenous vein – 11-15% Tributaries of the long/short saphenous – 30-40% Pathophysiology, causes and risk factors: Vascular clots are caused by a combination of venous stasis, endothelial injury and hypercoagulability.
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Weekend admission for TIPS procedure tied to higher mortality risk
AuntMinnie
JUNE 14, 2024
The study included data collected between 2015 and 2020 from 6,658 patients who underwent TIPS procedures. The team stratified the patients into 1,119 weekend patients and 5,539 weekday patients.
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New Editor-in-Chief
European Radiology
JANUARY 8, 2024
Besides, he has been the ECR Congress President in 2015 and 2018, participated in the ECR Committee activities in several editions, and received the ESR Gold Medal in 2022. Among his most remarkable contributions, he was the Chairman of the ESR Board of Directors from March 2018 to March 2019 and a member of the board for multiple years.
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CT cerebral angiography ED headache diagnosis more effective
AuntMinnie
APRIL 22, 2024
The investigators conducted a study that included data from 198,109 encounters at 21 emergency departments that involved the use of CT cerebral angiography between 2015 and 2021. The results were published April 19 in JAMA Network Open.
Studies lacking for trans breast cancer screening trends
AuntMinnie
APRIL 25, 2024
The studies were published between 2015 and 2023. Of the total studies, six were cross-sectional and six were retrospective chart reviews. Three studies conducted secondary analysis of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System national dataset, while nine articles recruited their own sample.
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Research Consensus Panel Follow-Up: Eight-year Update on Submassive Pulmonary Embolism
JVIR
JUNE 29, 2023
The 2015 Research Consensus Panel (RCP) on submassive pulmonary embolism (PE) set priorities for research in submassive PE, and identified a rigorous randomized trial of catheter-directed therapy (CDT) plus anticoagulation versus anticoagulation alone as the highest research priority.
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CBBCT shows superiority over mammography in small studies
AuntMinnie
JANUARY 10, 2024
They were published between 2015 and 2022. They added to the literature by evaluating eight research articles that directly compared the diagnostic value of both modalities for primary breast cancer. In total, the studies included 847 participants. Of the studies, six were retrospective and two were prospective.
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Customized support reduces CT, MRI order errors
AuntMinnie
JANUARY 4, 2024
"Additionally, it would shift time spent by radiologists on noninterpretive tasks of investigating and remedying incorrect orders (a secondary form of waste) to image interpretation, thereby decreasing workflow interruptions."
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123 Society of Interventional Radiology–American College of Radiology Standardized Report–Based Data Registry: Early Observations and Reflections from 2017 to 2019 Biopsy Report Data of Select Sites
JVIR
MARCH 24, 2023
The Society of Interventional Radiology first began its national registry program in 2015 (1) based on standardized procedure report data (2) using the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) National Radiology Data Registry platform.
RSNA Announces Journal Impact Factors
Imaging Technology
JUNE 24, 2024
The popular journal has nearly doubled its impact factor since 2015. RadioGraphics , RSNA’s premier educational journal, edited by Christine ‘Cooky’ Menias , M.D., has an impact factor of 5.2 with 15,185 citations. Launched in 1981, RadioGraphics is one of the leading education journals in diagnostic radiology.
At least 15% of surgeries after LCS are performed on benign lesions
AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 7, 2023
She and colleagues measured the rate of surgery for benign nodules and tracked tumor characteristics via research that included lung cancer screening data from 9,050 patients who underwent 21,366 LDCT exams between May 2015 and October 2021; of these, 260 underwent surgery.
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QPP Strategy for Radiology in 2023
Healthcare Administrative Partners
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Beginning with performance year 2013 (for payments in 2015) a penalty was imposed on those physicians who did not successfully report quality data. It was a voluntary program that would earn participants a bonus payment of 2% of their prior-year Medicare reimbursements.
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ECR: Coronal reconstruction on ABUS helps avoid false negatives
AuntMinnie
MARCH 1, 2024
They conducted a study that included 1,219 women who underwent ABUS between October 2015 and October 2018. Nikolova and colleagues investigated the false-positive and false-negative rates for ABUS over three years of using the technology in their academic radiology department.
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Clinical practice LCS program finds more disease than NLST
AuntMinnie
APRIL 24, 2024
The study included 3,326 patients who underwent 5,150 LCS exams between January 2015 and June 2020. The investigators tracked participants’ sociodemographic characteristics; Lung-RADS scores; incidence of pathology-proven lung cancers; and tumor characteristics using Duke’s electronic health records and its tumor registry.
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CT-FFR shows how smoking affects heart volume-to-myocardial mass ratio
AuntMinnie
MARCH 14, 2024
Patients were included if their smoking status was known and if they had undergone CT-FFR and coronary volume-to-myocardial mass ratio analysis; the researchers segmented the CCTA images to calculate coronary volume and myocardial mass ratio and compared it among smoking groups.
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Many young women with breast cancer symptoms delay care
AuntMinnie
APRIL 12, 2024
The study included data collected between 2015 and 2022 from 1,148 women enrolled in the RUBY program with a median participation age of 37 years. The researchers considered a patient delay to be when women who experienced breast symptoms postponed medical guidance for more than four weeks after the onset of symptoms. Of the total, 36.8%
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111 AI helps select patients for supplemental breast cancer screening
AuntMinnie
APRIL 9, 2024
To see if AI could improve breast density measurements, the researchers performed a retrospective study involving 65,235 mammographic examinations – 64,870 normal exams and 455 in cancer patients – that were bootstrapped from 2,043 patients receiving screening mammograms at Karolinska University Hospital between January 2008 and December 2015.
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Radiology leadership changes to begin in the new year
AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Chair of the department of radiology at University of Iowa since 2015, Derdeyn previously served as a professor of radiology, neurology, and neurological surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and as director of the Washington University/Barnes Jewish Hospital Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center.
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Don’t Convince Clients: How to Empower With Choice w/Chris Heinz
MRI Network
MARCH 5, 2024
In 2015, Chris became the Managing Partner of his firm. He made his first placement within 9 days of starting and he hasn’t stopped! In August 2000, Chris achieved the status of a CSAM, or Certified Senior Account Manager. This is a distinction held by less than 10% of the recruiters in the system.
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Minimally Invasive Procedure May Spare Patients from Thyroid Surgery
Imaging Technology
APRIL 2, 2024
Researchers looked at 775 patients with ultrasound-detected multifocal Stage I PTC treated with microwave ablation or surgery across 10 centers between May 2015 and December 2021. “These findings challenge traditional treatment paradigms and open new avenues for less invasive management strategies.”
Don’t Forget About the IO in the Critically Ill Patient
REBEL EM
APRIL 29, 2024
In these situations, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) of 2015 recommend the intraosseous (IO) route after the peripheral route and before the central venous route ( 1). 2015 PMID: 25768683 8 Leidel BA. This can often lead to significant delays in proper resuscitation. Trauma 1996.
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Radiology leadership changes to begin in the new year
AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Chair of the department of radiology at University of Iowa since 2015, Derdeyn previously served as a professor of radiology, neurology, and neurological surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and as director of the Washington University/Barnes Jewish Hospital Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center.
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Mount Sinai Study Calls for Major Changes in the Way People With Comorbidities Are Selected by Physicians for Lung Cancer Screening
Imaging Technology
APRIL 17, 2024
The policy required counseling on the importance of adherence to annual lung cancer screening, impact of comorbidities and ability or willingness to undergo diagnosis and treatment, but did not address the increasing prevalence of comorbidities, or give any guidance on how to assess the impact of comorbidities on screening, diagnosis, and treatment.
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AHRA Names New Executive Director
Imaging Technology
AUGUST 31, 2023
He has been an active member since 2005 and served on the Board of Directors for seven years as the Finance Director from 2012 to 2015 and then as President from 2016 to 2017. Newmark is new to association leadership but not new to AHRA.
The PACSman Pontificates: Is radiology ready for AI and vice versa?
AuntMinnie
JUNE 26, 2024
According to Signify Research , venture capital (VC) investment for companies developing medical imaging AI applications has totaled almost $5 billion since 2015. The top 25 companies account for more than 73% of all VC funding raised since 2015, yet the total funding has fallen despite the fact that the average deal exceeded $20 million.
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Reinforce the Trust Factor: Succeeding in a Post Face-to-Face World w/Riley Phillips
MRI Network
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Riley was promoted to Account Executive of Medical Devices at The Newell Group in 2015. During his five years in that role, he was consistently ranked as one of the top five Project Coordinators in the North Atlantic Region for MRI Network.
Weekend, evening mammo appointments may increase screening access
AuntMinnie
MAY 29, 2024
The study included data collected between 2015 and 2022 for 203,101 screening mammograms from 67,323 women. The Rossi team identified which women use weekend and/or evening appointments for screening mammography versus standard appointment times. It gathered data across four outpatient facilities in the Johns Hopkins academic health system.
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REBEL Core Cast 96.0 – Acute Vision Loss I
REBEL EM
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Bagheri 2015 ). Giant Cell Arteritis (arteritic anterior ischemic neuropathy) ( Bagheri 2015 , Hayreh 2009 ) Pathophysiology Giant cell arteritis(GCA) affects that medium-sized and large arteries. Persistent vision loss defined as loss of vision >24 hours. Causes: There are multitude of causes of vision loss.
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Anniversary of X-ray Discovery and National Radiologic Technology Week Commemorated by American Society of Radiologic Technologists
Imaging Technology
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
The ASRT Museum and Archives , located inside the ASRT office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which traces the progress of radiologic technology, opened its doors in 2015, offering artifacts that manufacturers and advertisers in the early 1900s used to capitalize on the public’s fascination of the X-ray.
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Lisa Wagner, Vice President Human Resources
TTG Imaging Solutions
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Prior to joining TTG in 2015, Lisa spent 10 years out of the workforce offering her HR expertise on a volunteer basis to Crisis Center North, a local non-profit organization serving victims of domestic violence, where she held various board positions and chaired the Policy and HR committees.
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Philips Appoints Charlotte Hanneman to succeed Abhijit Bhattacharya as Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Imaging Technology
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
She will succeed current CFO Abhijit Bhattacharya who has been CFO and member of Philips’ Board of Management and Executive Committee since 2015, and will retire from the company after a successful 37-year career on September 30, 2024.
Clinical value of some knee and hip MRIs questioned
AuntMinnie
APRIL 5, 2024
For evidence of MRI's clinical value in hip imaging, reviewers evaluated 13 studies (11 retrospective and two prospective) published in orthopedic surgery journals between 2015 and 2021, involving 6,385 patients from 50 years old to over 85. For MRI of the hip, Alaia and colleagues concluded that MRI can add value in certain applications.
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Lenox Hill First in New York State to Use Cutting-edge Imaging Technology to Enhance Radiation Oncology Treatment
Imaging Technology
JUNE 13, 2023
Between 2015 and 2025, the annual total number of patients receiving radiation therapy during their initial treatment course is expected to increase by 19 percent , from 490,000 to 580,000, according to the National Institutes of Health.
CT Test Simulates Blood Flow to Assess Risk in Patients with Angina
Imaging Technology
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
The study group included patients with new onset stable coronary artery disease consecutively enrolled in the Assessing Diagnostic Value of Non-Invasive CT-FFR in Coronary Care (ADVANCE) clinical trial between December 2015 and October 2017 at three Danish sites.
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Capsule Retention Following Capsule Endoscopy
Global Radiology CME
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
2015.3820/2015 9. In 2015, Dr. Rice and Natalie Rice founded Global Radiology CME to provide innovative radiology education at exciting international destinations, with the world's foremost authorities in their field. Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 2015;107(12):745-752. doi: 10.17235/reed.2015.3820/2015 Rondonotti E, Soncini M, Girelli C, et al.
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Immunotherapy Costs Drive Increase in Medicare Spending for Outpatient Cancer Care at the End of Life
Imaging Technology
APRIL 6, 2023
Analyzing Medicare Part B claims data for 84,744 beneficiaries, researchers found that spending for this type of care rose 12% from 2015 to 2019, and that payments for immunotherapy drug costs accounted for 84% of the net increase. “Our
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