AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. In the early stages of the global pandemic, articles on COVID-19 were very popular amongst AuntMinnie members. Topping the list in 2020 was a story on how patients with COVID-19 may initially present with non-respiratory symptoms.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

Radiology departments can take proactive steps to promote environmental sustainability, according to an article published April 23 in Radiology. She told AuntMinnie.com that this includes building diverse teams that include all key stakeholders, including radiologists, technologists, leadership, IT, and facilities management.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2025

Radiologist peer review improves the rate of clinically meaningful changes to radiation therapy (RT) planning, researchers have reported. The 31 articles tracked results from 39,509 RT plans (390 with radiology involvement and 39,119 without). The investigators found the following: A pooled rate of plan changes of 29%.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 25, 2024

A radiologist in India has been arrested as an alleged key operator in an emerging al-Qaida-inspired terrorist group, according to an article by The Times of India. The group reportedly operated a training camp in a forested area in northwestern India and were “set to launch terror attacks,” the article said.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Integrating eye-tracking data that map how radiologists interpret x-rays into deep learning AI algorithms could be key to developing more “human-centered” AI, according to a recent study. Difference between saccades, fixations, and attention heatmaps in radiologist eye-tracking studies. The full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

Out-of-network billing by radiologists – often referred to as “surprise billing” – dropped significantly beginning in 2007 and imaging claims are now almost completely in network, according to a recent study. And by 2021, radiologists practiced almost exclusively in-network, according to the researchers. in 2007 to 1.1%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2025

Todays radiologists face a similarly existential challenge, though its dimensions are not purely mechanical but deeply technological and economic. A looming crisis Data from IMV Medical Information Division and the American College of Radiology indicates that, in 2022, about 34,000 (range 30,000 to 37,000) radiologists in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 23, 2024

Attrition doesn’t appear to be a significant contributing factor in the shortage of radiologists in the U.S., After analyzing Medicare billing data from 2019 to 2024, researchers from NYU Langone Health in New York City found that radiologists have a lower national attrition rate than other healthcare providers. “The Radiologists: 13.2%

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 17, 2024

Even expert, specialized radiologists performing their first reads on x-rays can miss up to two-thirds of all rib fractures, they added. The researchers used a custom dataset of 1,109 pediatric chest x-rays (624 with fractures present and 485 with fractures absent) manually labeled by seven pediatric radiologists.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Interventional radiologists are disproportionately distributed in the U.S, of the United States population does not have access to an interventional radiologist, however, many patients would prefer minimally invasive care,” wrote first author Yusuf Ahmad, a student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, PA, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 24, 2024

The case of a radiologist who crashed into multiple cars, a road sign, and a tree while almost three times the blood-alcohol limit has focused attention on the grave risks of addiction. on March 27, 2023, according to the article. He returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.145 – just below a high-range reading, the article pointed out.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 28, 2024

Out of 39 specialties, radiology was in the top third when ranked by industry payments to doctors over a nine-year period, according to an article published March 28 in JAMA. of radiologists was $1.94 The full article can be found here. colleagues reported. Over the period, the mean amount paid to the top 0.1%

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“Initiatives by radiology departments to increase the availability and utilization of visas for IMG faculty applicants, to the extent permitted by institutional and state policies, could help expand the nation’s radiologist supply and thereby address the developing U.S. A link to the full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The team invited radiological societies and advocacy groups to engage in policy discussions and represent the interests of radiologists in the conversation, with the aim of contributing to the formation of policy that improves sustainability. Address global disparities. Create and distribute a "toolkit." Conduct research.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 28, 2024

"This article will serve as a landmark reference for navigating short-term labor challenges in radiology," explains one editorial about the suggestions.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

radiologists must increase their interest and involvement in CTC. In an accompanying editorial , Marc Gollub, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City encouraged his radiologist peers to boost use of CTC. What are the challenges to integrating CTC for colorectal cancer screening into clinical practice? In the U.S.,

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

RadiologyInfo.org , a source of medical imaging information for the general public, has introduced a new series of articles and videos to help patients understand their radiology exam reports. In the videos, radiologists share some common findings while displaying sample imaging exams.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a new year begins, we asked radiologists to weigh in on what has impressed them most and what might be next for GPT. Bera was the lead author of an October 2023 article published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology that assessed literature on ChatGPT in radiology published between January 26 and August 14, 2023.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2025

In Part 1 of his two-part series, radiologist Josh Ewell, DO, discussed developments in AI technology and the potential impact of these advances on radiology. A self-reinforcingspiral Initially, AI tools will fulfill their promise to relieve the burden of our worsening radiologist shortage: more studies can be read in less time.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 11, 2024

Their performance was compared to reads by 17 radiologists and radiology residents with varying experience. The full article is available here. These algorithms were all tested on the same validated data set of 386 chest x-rays, which were acquired between January 2012 and May 2022 from institutions in the Netherlands.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Most published articles testing ChatGPT in radiology show that the technology offers impressive performance, although there continue to be opportunities to improve it, according to a team in Cleveland. Twenty-three articles were original research, while the rest included reviews and perspectives or brief communications.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They provided a step-by-step description of how to use it in an article published October 24 in the British Journal of Radiology. The full article is available here. A team in Europe has launched a novel web application to help radiology trainees gain skills in detecting lung nodules on chest x-rays.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

ChatGPT might be able to pass the current benchmark exam for qualification as a radiologist in the U.K., according to a group of musculoskeletal radiologists in Birmingham. The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) only publishes very limited sample questions, the authors noted. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 29, 2024

news media, though radiologists may not be included in such coverage, researchers have reported. newspaper coverage, news articles over the past 25 years have discussed AI’s advantages more than potential risks. However, radiologists were “infrequently” interviewed or quoted in these articles.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

Radiologists seeking to provide equitable healthcare should establish "cultural dexterity" in their practices -- and there are three principles to follow, according to an article published August 6 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. The full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2025

A radiologist from Ghana who has allegedly lived in Europe has been granted bail while awaiting trial in a fraud case, according to a report published on December 31 by the state-owned Ghana News Agency (GNA). The GNA article states that Tuffour posed as a man in some cases while posing as a woman in others.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

AuntMinnie.com recently spoke with Warren Gefter, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, lead author of a recent article in Radiology proposing that human-AI symbiosis – rather than totally autonomous AI – should be the current goal for AI in chest radiography.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 12, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. In 2008, our top article shared the story of a $7 million settlement for allegations of fraudulent Medicare billing. A Florida radiologist has paid the U.S. government $7 million to settle allegations of healthcare fraud.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The defendants included a National Cancer Institute (NCI) radiologist and a Kuala Lumpur Hospital plastic surgeon. High Court Judge Datuk Akhtar Tahir found the radiologist liable but dismissed the suit against the plastic surgeon, the article states. The names of both defendants were not given in the article.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2024

The impending diagnostic radiology oral exam should be welcomed for aspiring radiologists, according to an article published January 5 in Academic Radiology. The American Board of Radiology (ABR) requires residents to pass two exams to become radiologists. The full article can be found here.

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Ben White

APRIL 3, 2025

Groups prioritizing compensation or efficiency can recruit fast radiologists or those with a broad skillset and flexible attitude. Obviously, there are efficient radiologists who can do everything well, churning out an incredible volume of high-quality reports, and there are lazy people who do a bad job producing a relative molehill.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 31, 2025

He wrote more than 80 articles and presented more than 1,150 lectures during his career, and "especially enjoyed leading sessions with residents and other early-career radiologists," according to the obituary.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. MRI safety articles have always been popular with our members, so it’s not surprising that our top article in 2019 reported on a safety incident in Sweden.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a medical literature review, a group at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, said they found compelling evidence that AR can offer interventional radiologists real-time guidance and enhanced visualization during these procedures, noted first author Yousif Al-Naser and colleagues. The full article is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 9, 2024

X-ray and ultrasound machines were badly damaged in a rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital on July 8, according to radiologist Stanislav Rebenkov, MD. A Russian KH-101 hypersonic missile smashed through the roof of the building, injuring more than 30 people, according to an article in The Telegraph. local time.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On July 9, 2024, AuntMinnieEurope.com posted an article about the extensive damage caused to Ukraine's largest pediatric hospital. Radiologist Josh Sokol, MD, a founder of the FRI who works with teleradiology company vRad, read AuntMinnieEurope.com 's July 9 article and recognized the urgent need for ultrasound capabilities at the Ohmatdyt.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 8, 2024

A study conducted in a primary care clinic in Spain highlights the need for improvement of AI algorithms for interpreting chest x-rays, despite being commercially approved by European regulators, according to an article published March 3 in Scientific Reports. The full article is available here. Image courtesy of Scientific Reports.

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