AuntMinnie

JULY 17, 2024

More than one-third of radiologists around the world experience burnout, according to an analysis published July 17 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The 2023 Medscape Physician Burnout and Depression Report indicated that radiologists have a high burnout prevalence of 54%. 39% vs. 35%.

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Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

By expediting communication between radiologists and referring providers when suspicious findings are identified, the system has great potential to improve clinical outcomes in real-world scenarios, authors of a new study in JACR suggest.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2024

Researchers led by Nelly Tan, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ, also found that after implementing institutional policies to comply with the act’s information-blocking provisions, more patients accessed their reports before the ordering provider did. This can allow for quick notification of important imaging findings. “In

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AuntMinnie

JULY 25, 2024

Researchers led by Seyed Tabatabaei, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, in their clinical perspective outlined these pitfalls and made suggestions on AI model training and validation, as well as using diverse datasets. The radiologist made a correct interpretation upon assessment of the entire exam.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

History of CT image recon algorithms For added historical perspective, radiologists at Stanford University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands early last year compiled a simple history of CT image reconstruction algorithms. Tim Leiner, MD, PhD.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 22, 2024

Last introduced in June 2021 as HR-3657 and companion SB-2641 , MARCA would amend Medicare reimbursement policy for radiologist assistants (RAs) to align reimbursement with state radiologist assistant licensure laws. Not all states (but a majority) have defined such licensure for these practitioners.

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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 latter can be taken as early as 12 months after residency.

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Aidoc

MAY 2, 2024

For the clinical staff who deliver patient care, expectations from their organization and clientele similarly center around providing excellent care as well as excellent service. This predictable occurrence is a seemingly inevitable reality. Many systems are turning to next generation digital solutions to overcome these challenges.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The team also suggested that patient-facing artificial intelligence (AI) tools could also help improve patient access and understanding without interrupting radiologist workflows. Patients prefer structure and thorough details on radiology reports, according to research published October 21 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Imaging was so important [for cardiac indications], that I decided to become a radiologist," he said. How can radiologists become successful cardiac imagers? Communicate," he said. Grow into becoming a multimodality cardiac radiologist. Gutberlet described how he came to cardiac imaging early in his medical career.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 1, 2024

Implementing imaging referral guidelines not only supports value-based radiology but makes it easier to communicate with patients about low-value services, according to findings presented February 29 at ECR 2024. In addition, clinical decision support systems were the most evaluated mode of intervention, either integrated or standalone.

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Aidoc

MAY 2, 2024

For the clinical staff who deliver patient care, expectations from their organization and clientele similarly center around providing excellent care as well as excellent service. This predictable occurrence is a seemingly inevitable reality. Many systems are turning to next generation digital solutions to overcome these challenges.

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Aidoc

MARCH 2, 2025

The Power of Education and Communication in AI Success One of the biggest misconceptions about AI in radiology is that it replaces physicians. Dr. Jose emphasized that AI isnt a substitute for radiologists or technologists but rather an augmentation tool that enhances their roles. They feel empowered by these expanded roles.

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Aidoc

JANUARY 23, 2025

AI technologies , particularly those that help automate administrative and clinical tasks, can have a transformative impact on key metrics like patient throughput, length of stay (LoS) and communication between medical teams. LoS in the ED is often affected by delays in receiving test results or coordinating care with other teams.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Radiologists highly prefer patient clinical histories generated by large language models (LLMs) for oncologic imaging requisitions to those typically produced by referring physicians,according to research published February 4 in Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Assessment of Claimant, Clinical, and Financial Characteristics of Teleradiology Medical Malpractice Cases. Neuroimaging and Clinical Findings in Healthy Middle-Aged Adults With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the PREVENT Dementia Study. Radiologist Workforce Attrition from 2019 to 2024: A National Medicare Analysis.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

Primary care providers (PCPs) want radiologists to include incidental findings from CT imaging in their reports, but they're not very confident in the AI technology that flags these results, researchers have reported. The study was published in the August issue of Clinical Imaging. "[Our practiced in community hospitals.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Considering a patient's symptoms as noted on a short pre-MR imaging questionnaire improves radiologists' lumbar spine exam interpretation and diagnosis, researchers have found. The results were published October 29 in Radiology. Patients noted the severity of their pain, where it was located, and what made it worse or better.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 26, 2024

“Living” and “viable” should be avoided in first-trimester ultrasound lexicon when imaging pregnant women, according to new guidelines introduced August 27 by the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU), published in Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 19, 2024

As part of their RSNA membership, radiologists get to attend the annual meeting for free. Radiology presence Since radiology support staff and radiologists are only at HIMSS to look at a few dozen radiology vendors at best (out of 1,000 total) it makes attendance much more difficult to justify. have yet to change. have yet to change.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition, an in-person demonstration called Radiology Reimagined: AI, innovation, and interoperability in practice is designed to showcase new technologies and communications standards needed to integrate AI into the diagnostic workflow, according to the RSNA. to 5 p.m. . | 10:50 a.m. | 11:00 a.m. | 2:40 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. |

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The technology figured prominently in five Minnies categories, including Hottest Clinical Procedure. Pickhardt believes using additional clinical data on CT imaging could save healthcare costs, especially when AI tools are used in parallel, suggesting it is a cost-effective or even cost-saving strategy for personalized or precision medicine.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 26, 2024

There are several barriers that still need to be addressed from a radiologist, facility, and patient standpoint. How someone can extrapolate findings from a study conducted overseas with less than 100 participants in a publicly funded healthcare system and present it as a universal truth to over 49,000 radiologists in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Baffour, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, is the 2024 Melvin M. Baffour practices as a diagnostic radiologist with expertise in advanced MRI and CT techniques for musculoskeletal imaging. Baffour practices as a diagnostic radiologist with expertise in advanced MRI and CT techniques for musculoskeletal imaging.

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Cloudex Radiology

APRIL 21, 2021

The Radiologist who was seeing the CT image had doubts of history and finding mismatch and discussed it with a pulmonologist then reported the presence of a metallic foreign body, and she got referred to a tertiary center with a Bronchoscope facility. Good, effective communication is an integral part of good patient care.

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Aidoc

JANUARY 13, 2025

Pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs) are a transformative innovation in PE care, providing a coordinated framework to improve clinical decision-making, streamline workflows and ultimately improve patient outcomes. Managing PE is especially challenging due to the variability of symptoms and the complexity of clinical risk profiles.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 17, 2024

Radiologists in Ukraine have shared stories on their experiences, from living in the basement of their respective clinics to treat patients while evading bombings, to adjusting their workflows to continue delivering care. One radiologist based in Ukraine shared her perspective on the current state of medical imaging in Ukraine.

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Everything Rad

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With that said, it would be easy to theorize that more than anything else, that cost is the most crucial factor for clinics, hospitals, and imaging centers that are seeking X-Ray equipment solutions. Purchasing a piece of X-Ray equipment impacts everyone, from the patients to the rad tech taking the image to the radiologist interpreting it.

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Aidoc

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Sahani, Chair of Radiology at University of Washington Medicine, explains how clinical teams leverage Aidoc AI to both flag suspected positive cases of PE and communicate them, once confirmed by a radiologist, to the entire PE response team to drive better collaboration and reduce time to treatment.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It includes new terms of clinical importance and concepts that have emerged, discards others that have become obsolete, and addresses terms where usage has either changed or become inconsistent to a degree that they warranted a new definition. The latest glossary replaces previous glossaries published in 1984, 1996, and 2008.

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Aidoc

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Sahani, Chair of Radiology at University of Washington Medicine, explains how the clinical teams leverage Aidoc AI to both flag suspected positive cases of PE and communicate them, once confirmed by a radiologist, to the entire PE response team to drive better collaboration on and reduce time to treatment.

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 28, 2024

Noting that imagers might need to tailor their reporting language to better contextualize their findings, “radiologists may also consider mechanisms for timely and appropriate communication of important findings to ordering providers, to ensure advance notification,” the authors of this AJR accepted manuscript added. Tan et al.’s

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

He said that AI allows radiologists to view what they cannot see with the naked eye. Recently published studies, as well as ongoing research, continue to highlight AI’s potential in clinical use. Of these devices, 76% are intended for use by radiologists. The number of AI-based medical devices cleared by the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 29, 2024

More than 30% of radiologists are already incorporating AI into their clinical practices and are optimistic about the value it can bring. A 2023 analysis published in the British Journal of Radiology revealed that only 20% of AI algorithms improved radiologists’ performance. To start, the algorithms need to be impactful.

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Aidoc

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As powerful as AI can be in clinical environments, its success depends on understanding how it fits into–and enhances–existing workflows. Without AI, an overburdened health system may face delays in diagnosis and communication, affecting timely care. For instance, consider an ED scenario where a patient with complex symptoms arrives.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Bias and data transparency have been two focal points for radiologists using AI. AI advocates say that for the technology to further advance into the clinic, these issues among others need to be addressed. This makes transparent communication of data limitations valuable, they added.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

Augmentative AI, Not Autonomous The narrative of radiology AI has evolved from the notion of autonomous systems replacing expert radiologists, to an assistive approach. AI can take over administrative tasks that radiologists don’t need to perform and augment the rest.

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