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How MHRG helped Clinic at the Mall, Uganda provide high quality and personalized patient care possible to its people

Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group

Story behind the birth of The Clinic at the Mall, Uganda: The Clinic at the Mall provides accessible, high quality and personalized healthcare services to families in Kampala and beyond. A 45-year-old lady taking part in our Breast Cancer Screening exercise in October 2015 to learn early enough that she had breast cancer.

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GE HealthCare Announces FES PET Imaging Recommendation in NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines)

Imaging Technology

Detecting ER+ lesions in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer could potentially aid oncologists, surgeons and clinicians in choosing the most appropriate therapy for patients.” cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education. The NCCN is a not-for-profit alliance of 33 leading U.S.

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The PACSman Pontificates: Is radiology ready for AI and vice versa?

AuntMinnie

How someone can extrapolate findings from a study conducted overseas with less than 100 participants in a publicly funded healthcare system and present it as a universal truth to over 49,000 radiologists in the U.S. They expressed substantial trust in the healthcare system if the implementation of AI was to become a standard practice.

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Anniversary of X-ray Discovery and National Radiologic Technology Week Commemorated by American Society of Radiologic Technologists

Imaging Technology

In a written statement, the organization leadership noted, “It can be argued that the discovery of the x-ray by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen on November 8, 1895, was one of the most significant milestones in healthcare. In addition, it offered there are more than 450,000 registered radiologic technologists in the U.S.,

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Aidoc and The PERT Consortium: New Possibilities for PE Care

Aidoc

Since 2015, The PERT Consortium focuses on guiding and influencing pulmonary embolism (PE) care and research in institutions across the U.S. This lack of consensus can result in fragmented and, possibly, delayed patient care and an extended hospital length of stay until a treatment decision can be made.

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Aidoc and The PERT Consortium: New Possibilities for PE Care

Aidoc

Since 2015, The PERT Consortium focuses on guiding and influencing pulmonary embolism (PE) care and research in institutions across the U.S. This lack of consensus can result in fragmented and, possibly, delayed patient care and an extended hospital length of stay until a treatment decision can be made.

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Susan G. Komen Renames Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Grant After Local Raleigh Resident and Breast Cancer Advocate

Imaging Technology

In 2015, after experiencing severe back pain, she found that her cancer had unfortunately returned and metastasized to her spine and liver. Rhonda was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer when she was only 34 years old, and after four rounds of chemotherapy and 35 rounds of radiation therapy, Rhonda had no evidence of disease in 2013.

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