AuntMinnie

MARCH 10, 2025

The study was led by Yun-Woo Chang, MD, from Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital in collaboration with breast and general radiologists from six South Korean academic hospitals.

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Clinic Communication Radiologist Hospital 130

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

A team led by Mark Slidell, MD, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, found that CT remains the most used imaging method for diagnostic pediatric appendicitis in hospitals that don’t participate in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Pediatrics (NSQIP-P). hospitals over time. NSQIP-P hospital 71.7%

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Ultrasound Hospital MRI Radiation 290

Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Intermountain Healthcare first launched Tellica Imaging in 2021 as it sought to capitalize on the growing movement of radiology services outside of the hospital setting.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 15, 2024

They developed the algorithm using data from one hospital between 2009 and 2021, dividing patients into training and internal test sets with a ratio of eight to two. They assessed the algorithm's performance using the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC), comparing it to seven radiologist readers.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Agosta and co-authors wanted to investigate the pandemic’s impact on mammography volumes, breast biopsies, and patient outcomes in a large women's specialty hospital in southern Louisiana. They noted that the hospital has been actively working on outreach efforts such as social media postings, mailed letters, and mobile mammography services.

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Mammogram Diagnostic Nursing Hospital 278

AuntMinnie

MARCH 29, 2024

its share among employer-insured individuals actually decreased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported. trillion in 2021 and is expected to grow by 5.4% Nominal medical imaging price increases by modality, 2010 to 2021 Modality Percentage increase CT 12.4% growth of nominal hospital imaging prices and a 22.6%

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Healthcare Healthcare Nuclear Medicine Imaging 290

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2024

The 2021 cyberattack on the Irish healthcare system caused major disruption. In a study published on January 2 in the Journal of Cancer Policy , clinicians at the hospital assessed the impact of the incident and provided a framework for other institutions to mitigate the impact of such attacks. Rachel Keogh, and colleagues.

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Picture Archiving and Communication System Radiology Communication Hospital 244

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, VA, found that office ultrasound services have been mostly performed by radiologists while hospital outpatient and inpatient services have been performed more by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. from 2009 to 2021. Researchers led by Casey Pelzl from the Harvey L. in 2009 to 34.2%

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Ultrasound Radiologist Inpatient Medicare 290

AuntMinnie

APRIL 3, 2024

Impeded by a smaller number of radiology-applicable quality measures, in 2021 radiologists in radiology-only practices scored significantly lower on relevant Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) gauges compared with other specialties. In contrast, those in multispecialty practices scored higher in the U.S.

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Radiologist Medicare Radiology Ultrasound 298

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Risk-based lung cancer screening using a model called the PLCOm2012-Update appears to mitigate racial and ethnic disparities and improve screening performance compared to a protocol based on the USPSTF 2021 criteria, researchers have found. In 2021, the U.S. comparing it to the USPSTF's 2021 recommendation. PLCOm2012-Update 15.9

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Healthcare Healthcare IT Hospital 262

REBEL EM

JANUARY 18, 2024

PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26 to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In his presentation, Jae Seok Bae, MD, from Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea presented research that found that shear-wave velocity values measured after chemotherapy showed predictive performance in chemotherapy responsiveness in patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases.

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Hospital Disease IT Ultrasound 317

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Injected amounts of the tracer have dropped by 66% between 2000 and 2021, they found. To quantify these developments, the group analyzed administered doses in 243 children and adolescents who underwent 466 clinical F-18 FDG-PET/CT or PET/MRI scans of the body at their hospital between January 2000 and May 2021.

Radiation 278

Radiation Clinic MRI Imaging 278

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

An automated protocoling algorithm used with a hospital's electronic health record (EHR) software reduces radiologist CT exam workload, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has reported. The findings could make busy radiology departments more efficient, wrote a team led by Ryan Chung, MD.

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Radiologist Electronic Medical Record Inpatient Hospital 289

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lopez and co-authors studied the relationship between NIH research funding awarded to radiology departments and Lown Institute Hospitals Index rankings for inclusivity and community benefit. The index measures the social responsibility of more than 3,600 hospitals across the U.S. based radiology departments.

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Radiology Hospital Education Communication 276

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Insight CXR has been used as an aid to help interpret all posterior-anterior and anterior-posterior chest x-rays at the authors’ hospital since March 2021, with the group continually evaluating its impact in clinical practice. needed clinical management,” wrote lead author Shin Hye Hwang, MD, and colleagues.

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X-ray Hospital PACS Clinic 312

AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

Electronic cigarettes entered the market in 2007, and, as of 2021, had become the second most used tobacco product among American adults, the group noted. In 2021, the task force expanded the pool of eligible individuals by lowering the screening start age from 55 to 50 and smoking pack years from 30 to 20.

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This study, conducted at Capio S:t Göran Hospital in Sweden, reinforces the real-world impact of Lunit INSIGHT MMG, which has successfully replaced one of the two human readers in the hospital’s double-reading breast cancer screening protocol. tim.hodson Mon, 12/02/2024 - 11:22 Dec.

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Radiologist Hospital Mammogram Clinic 104

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Postman noted that in 2021, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new reimbursement plan in 2025, which includes an add-on payment for hospitals for the use of domestically produced Tc-99m. At the time, the U.S. was exporting HEU to foreign-owned reactors to produce Mo-99.

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Nuclear Medicine Hospital Medicare Government 278

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 3, 2024

In a retrospective study, a team at the University Hospital Salzburg in Austria studied baseline F-18 FDG-PET/CT imaging parameters in patients with melanoma and found they were associated with the development of metastatic brain tumors. A 49-year-old patient with primary clinical stage III melanoma underwent F-18 FDG-PET.

Nuclear Medicine 312

Nuclear Medicine Imaging Modalities Hospital Imaging 312

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Researchers led by Hongping Song, MD, PhD, from Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University in China found that ABUS screening with remote reading achieved benchmark performance metrics for cancer detection when compared to mammography, with infrequent interval cancers. The background echotexture is heterogeneous.

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Quality and Compliance Ultrasound Hospital Teleradiology 264

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To shed light on current and anticipated claims trends, the researchers searched commercial and Medicare payer data on arterial and venous thrombectomy procedures performed to treat VTE between January 2017 and December 2021. fold vs. 1.8-fold). Medicare and 46.8% commercial). The use of thrombectomy to treat VTE is growing rapidly.

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Minimally Invasive Procedure Medicare X-ray Insurance 264

AuntMinnie

JULY 9, 2024

Many women who are recalled from breast cancer screening receive post-screening work-up in the hospital with full-field digital mammography. Women in the trial were randomly assigned to either a CEM branch or a control branch for conventional imaging as a primary workup tool in two general and two academic hospitals.

Imaging Modalities 276

Imaging Modalities Hospital Diagnostic Imaging 276

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Researchers led by Wenfei Xue from Hebei Province General Hospital in Shijiazhuang, China, found through such reconstruction that the tumor blood vessel diameter of ground-glass opacity (GGO) lesions are tied to the growth of malignant pulmonary nodules. This included 62 patients as stable and 54 patients in the nodule growth group.

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PACS Clinic Hospital Imaging 317

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

In a study that included 104 patients, PET/MRI provided high sensitivity and specificity for determining underlying causes, especially in patients with elevated C-reactive protein, a blood biomarker of inflammation, according to lead author Tomas Rohan, MD, of University Hospital Brno in Brno, Czechia. “To

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Diagnose MRI Nuclear Medicine Radiation 287

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 4, 2024

The statistic underscores a need to improve the imaging exam ordering process, particularly for CT and MR imaging, which would not only benefit patients but also radiologists, wrote a team led by Ariadne DeSimone, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

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MRI Imaging Modalities Education Diagnostic 308

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Christensen team studied the fraction of out-of-network claims that radiologists and other hospital-based specialists can expect to at least break even with when payer-determined payments are challenged through the IDR process. of batched out-of-network claims for all other hospital-based specialties combined, respectively.

Radiologist 243

Radiologist Insurance Inpatient Hospital 243

AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

Bartholomew's Hospital in London. She and colleagues assessed the performance of this type of protocol in women at high risk for breast cancer via a study that included 236 shortened breast MRI exams performed between 2018 and 2021. Two radiologists reviewed the cases.

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MRI Hospital Disease Diagnose 247

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A steady increase in the volume of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) exams is occurring, especially at mid- to high-level community hospitals across the country. If staff choose the right subgroup of patients to examine with CCTA imaging, they can save their hospital, healthcare system, and insurance companies a lot of money.

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Radiology Technologist Emergency Room Hospital Nursing 306

AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Thus, the primary objective of this study was to evaluate how Pluvicto performed in patients treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital between December 2021 and January 2024. Yet current data on its efficacy and toxicity profile are scarce.

Nuclear Medicine 279

Nuclear Medicine Clinic Hospital IT 279

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Radiology practices typically participate with most payers, especially those with which their hospital participates, thus avoiding situations where a dispute over a non-covered service would arise. Information Blocking Rules Compliance with the CMS Information Blocking requirements went into effect on April 5, 2021.

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Medicare Radiology Quality and Compliance Hospital 289

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Courtesy of Dr Michael Yam, lead for 3D printing centre in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus), and limited workforce, noted fellow RSNA speaker Dr. Lionel Cheng, senior radiology consultant and chief data and digital officer at Singapore General Hospital. Another important area is 3D printing.

Global Radiology 266

Global Radiology Radiology X-ray Ultrasound 266

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A team led by Shannon Farmakis, MD, from Mercy Children’s Hospital in St. Farmakis and colleagues described results and trends from responses gathered for the 2021 survey, focusing on pediatric radiology. All ACR members were invited to participate, while previous surveys only allowed practice leaders and their proxies to participate.

Radiology 278

Radiology Private Practice Fluoroscopy Radiologist 278

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The variation isn't good news for quality patient care, wrote a team led by Francesco Giganti, MD, PhD, of the University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K. Global prostate MRI acquisition parameters vary widely around the world, researchers have reported.

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MRI Patient Care Hospital Imaging 299

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 8, 2024

Obeng-Gyasi and colleagues sought to address the problem by developing a financial hardship assessment protocol for new and returning patients who presented for breast, lung, and blood cancer screening and care; it was implemented between November 2020 and November 2021 and 4,543 patients were screened. Of the total study cohort, 10.6%

Electronic Medical Record 264

Electronic Medical Record Nursing Insurance Medicare 264

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dempsey began working in radiography at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania. She continued working at the hospital for 12 years while growing in her role as an educator. Dmitry Beyder.

Nuclear Medicine 358

Nuclear Medicine Education Radiology Technologist Radiation Science 358

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The researchers included 123 women with breast masses in their retrospective study, with data collected between 2021 and 2023. A computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) system improves the diagnostic performance of breast ultrasound, according to findings published October 6 in Heliyon.

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Ultrasound Diagnostic Hospital Diagnose 290