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. Inpatient exams 3.5 The findings could make busy radiology departments more efficient, wrote a team led by Ryan Chung, MD.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 3, 2024

Neiman Health Policy Institute ( HPI ) study found that radiologists interpreted 72.1% of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, with the remaining 27.9% According to a written study summary released by HPI, market share varied by imaging modality; radiologists interpreted 97.3% of ultrasound.

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Image Interpretation Radiologist Imaging Ultrasound 52

AuntMinnie

JULY 1, 2024

A team led by Eric Christensen, PhD, research director at the Neiman Institute, reported that radiologists interpreted 72.1% of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, but that the remaining 27.9% The team conducted a study that included data from 123 million 2022 Medicare Part B imaging claims.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 24, 2024

of radiologists’ commercial claims were out of network (OON), down from 12.6% As such, by 2021, radiologists practiced almost exclusively in-network. There were similar declines for claims associated with inpatient stays—10.2% The overall radiology OON rate decreased from one in eight claims in 2007 to only one in ninety claims.

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Radiologist Insurance Inpatient Imaging Modalities 82

Everything Rad

JULY 17, 2023

The enduring shortage is affecting staffing for radiographers and radiologists; and all imaging modalities. Aiysha Lewis, CRA, Director of Operations and Business Development for Adventist Healthcare Imaging in Monrovia, MD, is struggling with staffing of radiologists. “We Allen is also the AHRA president elect 2022-2023.

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Radiology Radiograph Radiographer Radiographer 98

AuntMinnie

JUNE 27, 2024

Administered CT radiation doses are highly variable across patients, radiologists, and hospitals throughout the U.S. 2022 Feb; 302(2):380-389. National Quality Forum, Patient Safety, Fall 2021 Cycle: CDP Report, Technical Report, September 26, 2022. An Image Quality-informed Framework for CT Characterization.

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Radiation Computed Tomography DICOM Hospital 74

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The impetus to conserve CT contrast has been prompted in part by a 2022 supply chain disruption that made GE HealthCare 's (GEHC) Omnipaque agent scarce due to a lockdown of the company's Shanghai production facility. "It It has become crucial to conserve contrast," Sheriff said. "It We don't want to overuse or underuse it."

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Education Inpatient Diagnostic Imaging Diagnostic 105