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Responding to a Ransomware Attack in Radiology

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Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. Imagine that your radiology department has no access to your PACS, your RIS, or even email. Our radiology department was one of the fortunate ones, we were without PACS “only” six days. No PACS/RIS.

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Cyberattacks: What can radiology do to boost protection?

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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. “The

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Cómo Responder a un Ataque de Ransomware en Radiología

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Por el Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI St James’s Hospital – Trinity College de Dublín. Imagine que su departamento de radiología no tiene acceso a su PACS, su RIS o incluso a su correo electrónico. Afortunadamente, nuestro departamento de radiología fue uno de los pocos que “solo” estuvo sin el sistema PACS seis días.

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AI detects incidental lung nodules on chest x-rays

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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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3D CT reconstruction shows ties to malignant pulmonary nodule growth

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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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Meet the Minnies 2024 semifinal candidates

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Image from Molly Charney, MD, of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, et al. tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

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Como Responder a um Ataque de Ransomware na Radiologia.

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Imagine que seu departamento de radiologia não tenha acesso ao PACS, ao RIS ou mesmo ao e-mail. Nosso departamento de radiologia foi um dos sortudos, já que ficamos sem acesso ao PACS por “apenas” seis dias. Outros centros de saúde irlandeses foram impossibilitados de utilizar o PACS por cerca de cinco semanas. Não havia rede.

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