Diagnostic Imaging

JULY 16, 2024

Going into effect in 2015, the Category III CPT add-on code may facilitate broader access to the use of fluorescence imaging for assessing margins after lumpectomies for signs of residual breast cancer.

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JVIR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Five hundred patients had 508 filters placed between 2015 and 2022. The study purpose was to evaluate Denali IVC filter (Bard Peripheral Vascular, Tempe, Arizona) outcomes.

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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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Diagnostic Radiology Imaging 92

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

They included data collected between 2015 and 2021 for 115,186 patients under 18 years old undergoing appendectomy for acute appendicitis. Use of ultrasound, CT in diagnosing pediatric appendicitis Modality and hospital type 2015 2021 p-value Ultrasound Overall 68.5% hospitals over time. NSQIP-P hospital 71.7% Non-NSQIP-P hospital 18.8%

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

According to the claim, beginning in 2015, Andrew Gomes , MD, allegedly offered physicians who invested in his clinics returns in dividends if they referred patients for treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The founder of an interventional radiology practice in Houston has agreed to pay $8.8 Attorney Alamdar S.

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Radiologist Interventional Radiology Disease Medical 98

AuntMinnie

JULY 24, 2024

The Liebel-Flarsheim urological imaging systems business, which was acquired by Guerbet in 2015 from Mallinckrodt as part of its purchase of Mallinckrodt's contrast media and delivery systems unit, features the Hydra Vision urology digital imaging product line.

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IT Medical Imaging 59

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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Myelogram MRI Disease Clinic 103

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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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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IT 52

JVIR

JULY 30, 2024

This graphic shows my postfellowship policy universe: (a) 2005, Deficit Reduction Act, the first unilateral payment reduction in imaging services, affecting advanced imaging services, including computed tomography (CT) angiography and magnetic resonance (MR) angiography; (b) 2010, the Affordable Care Act, the most significant policy change since the (..)

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 21, 2024

Omary noted that is the date established by the 2015 Paris Agreement treaty to limit global warming and that aligning the “bedside to biosphere” concept with such initiatives will allow radiology researchers to begin to measure their progress. Why is 2030 the target goal to see the concept in play?

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Public Health Radiology Medical IT 64

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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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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MRI Radiology Imaging 52

AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

They become educated consumers for their own health.” AuntMinnie.com · Podcast on breast density notification law Pushkin helped found Densebreast-info.org in 2015 after her own cancer scare in 2005. They can do their own research on the topic and engage their providers.

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Insurance Mammogram Ultrasound MRI 107

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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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 12, 2024

Patients received EVT for acute ischemic stroke with large infarct at one of 25 German stroke centers between May 2015 and December 2021. To address this knowledge gap, the group compared safety and efficacy outcomes in 126 patients older than 80 and 282 patients ages 80 and younger. in patients 60 years and younger to 15.1%

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Clinic X-ray Medical IT 111

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.

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Interventional Radiology Radiology Medical IT 40

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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Hospital Interventional Radiology Disease Diagnostic 105

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.

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Computed Tomography Diagnose Medical 40

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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X-ray Diagnostic Clinic Diagnose 111

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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Mammogram Clinic Medical Radiology 127

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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MRI Imaging Modalities Education Diagnostic 123

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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Medicare Radiology IT 52

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 9, 2024

Reschke and colleagues compared the performance of DECT to trabecular HU, cortical HU, and cortical thickness ratio to predict future bone breaks in a study that included L1 vertebrae data from 111 patients who underwent DECT and HU and cortical thickness evaluation between January 2015 and December 2018.

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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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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 6, 2024

To this end, Chang's group assessed the ability of automated CT-derived markers to predict diabetes and associated cardiometabolic comorbidities via a study that included 32,166 Korean adults who underwent PET/CT exams between January 2012 and December 2015.

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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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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The trial began in 2015 and included 38,316 men between the ages of 50 and 60 invited for PSA screening. Of these, 19,733 attended at least one screening.

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MRI Clinic Diagnose Patient Care 81

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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Disease Clinic Diagnose Radiology 83

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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Disease Clinic Hospital Diagnostic 88

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.

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Medical Imaging Healthcare Healthcare Medical 93

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.”

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Minimally Invasive Procedure Hospital Ultrasound Radiology 104

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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Diagnostic Medical Diagnose Imaging 111

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.

Radiology 106

Radiology Magnetic Resonance Imaging Public Health Hospital 106

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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Mammogram Clinic Imaging Hospital 85

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.

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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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Medicare Disease Clinic IT 121