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Triple-negative breast cancers impact female populations differently

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per year from 2010 to 2016 and 4.3% from 2016 to 2019). per year from 2015 to 2019); Hispanic women aged 65 years or older (2.3% per year from 2010 to 2019); and Black women (1.4% To compare, the triple-negative disease incidence remained unchanged among non-Hispanic white women.

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Physician-founded teleradiology firm Hexarad raises $14M in growth funding

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Founded in 2016, the company employs over 200 radiologists, providing remote reads across multiple countries.

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Radiology vendor Qure.ai completes $65M Series D funding round

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Founded in 2016, the vendor offers the "world’s most deployed healthcare AI," with its solutions in use across 3,000 care sites in 90 countries.

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Radiology resident thumbs nose at Nobel Prize winner who predicted specialty would become obsolete

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“Godfather of AI," Geoffrey Hinton, forecasted in 2016 that advances in AI would take over radiologists’ duties within five years. Eight years later, the prediction has proven false.

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Justice Department accuses radiologist of amassing $6.5M in improper Medicare payments

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James McGuckin, MD, allegedly submitted more than 500 false claims for unnecessary vascular procedures between 2016 to 2019, the DOJ said Tuesday.

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Can use of other cancer screening tests boost uptake of LCS?

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This group was also classified by whether it met the USPSTF's 2016 breast cancer screening and 2021 criteria for colorectal cancer screening.

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HOPPR signs imaging AI vets Boonn, Kim

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Prior to that post, Kim was CMIO at Equium Intelligence (before its acquisition by Rad AI) and also CMIO at Nuance Communications, as well as co-founder and director of innovation at Montage Healthcare Solutions, which was purchased by Nuance in 2016.

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