AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When it comes to medical imaging, radiology is what most often comes to mind, and for good reason. A large percentage of medical imaging created by most hospitals tends to come from the radiology department. In most cases, medical images and scans are placed into an electronic medical record (EMR) as a link.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The First Read Initiative donated 7 Butterfly iQ+ ultrasound devices to the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. How can I help from my office in Denver, Colorado? These were two questions I often asked myself. All photos courtesy of Josh Sokol, MD.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 22, 2024

BOSTON -- ChatGPT shows early promise in classifying clinically significant breast pain, according to research presented at the Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CMIMI). ChatGPT also correctly identified most clinically significant breast symptoms. of clinically significant symptoms.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

While the pandemic affected medical operations across the country, the experts said that radiologists developed and honed their sense of resiliency as imaging was placed on the front lines. Medical imaging played a significant role in the early days of the pandemic when it hit its initial peak in April 2020.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Canon Medical's new midrange ultrasound scanner, Aplio me. Image courtesy of Canon Medical. VIENNA -- Canon Medical Systems Europe unveiled a new ultrasound scanner and a radiography/fluoroscopy (R/F) system in its booth at ECR 2024. Canon Medical's new Xavion digital R/F system and CXDI-B1 digital detector.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 29, 2024

Developing and testing a new class of “super phantoms” is needed to optimize new medical imaging techniques before they are used in human studies, according to an article published May 24 in Communications Engineering. Phantoms are test objects used for initial testing and optimization of medical imaging techniques.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Just ask Amy Patel, MD, from Liberty Hospital in Missouri. Patel, who serves as medical director of the hospital's Breast Care Center, spoke with AuntMinnie.com about trends and technologies she has seen during her time in Chicago. Finally, Patel discussed take-home points that RSNA attendees can take back to the clinic.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Between case studies and speaker experiences, attendees could get a sense of the range of patient experiences with IBD -- from blood and stool testing and two ultrasound exams per year to multiple medications, surgeries, and numerous scans. Educate your patient in every clinical contact, he advised. A survey of patients in the U.K.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Researchers led by ShivendraRai, MD, from King Georges Medical University in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, found that LUS scoring predicts surfactant administration better than chest x-ray in preterm neonates of 34 weeks' gestation admitted within 12 hours of birth with clinical suspicion of RDS. The full study can be found here.

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MRI Network

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Medical providers are critical to fostering a healthy community. Yet, from doctors to nurses, healthcare workforce trends continue to point to more skilled professionals leaving the industry, leading to medical provider shortages becoming increasingly evident. Why Is Healthcare Losing Medical Providers?

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most Influential Radiology Researcher Erik Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik Middlebrooks, MD. One of this year's nominations for Most Influential Radiology Researcher is Erik Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He earned his medical degree from Washington University in St.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Canadian x-ray manufacturer KA Imaging plans to highlight clinical results regarding the use of its Reveal 35C detector in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER) meeting to be held in Washington, D.C.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I was in short medical trousers, I grew up surrounded by mighty plain film gods. But the pressure kept building, and the number of CT and MRI scans grew by 20% annually in my hospital. Paul McCoubrie, MBBS, is a consultant radiologist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, U.K. Radiologists then started a new tactic: hiding.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The study results suggest that the model, called TotalSegmentator MRI, could improve radiology department workload, said senior author Jakob Wasserthal, PhD, of University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. The team then assessed the model's performance using Dice scoring. Example MRI scans in the training dataset. for 13 anatomic structures).

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Health Imaging

MARCH 18, 2024

A collection of medical images from hospitals in Ukraine showing radiology equipment in use and clinical images of wounded soldiers and civilians.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 8, 2024

Adopting a responsible framework could help overcome challenges in applying AI to medical imaging, according to an article published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. This approach aims to increase the evaluation of AI models by making their integration and validation easier with existing medical imaging databases.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 31, 2025

Nina Kottler, MD, associate chief medical officer for clinical AI at Radiology Partners, explains the movement toward greater regulation of artificial intelligence and the need for radiology practices and hospitals to learn how to perform quality assurance testing for bias.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 25, 2024

Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego is making its Arc Viewer -- a software platform developed by the hospital's 3D Innovations Lab -- available to other hospitals and educators across the U.S. hospitals at no cost. Ryan said the software has received positive feedback from children’s hospital staff.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Through AWS HealthImaging, a HIPAA-eligible service that helps organizations and their software partners store, analyze and share medical imaging data at petabyte scale, Konica Minolta's Exa Enterprise platform empowers healthcare organizations to accelerate innovation while minimizing the complexities and costs of medical image data management.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) radiologist Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD, has been named president of the board of directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the group announced at its 2024 annual meeting in Chicago. Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD. Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

12, 2024 — Seno Medical announced its Imagio Breast Imaging System has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient, Inc. Vizient customer-led councils identify technologies that have the potential to enhance clinical care, patient safety, healthcare worker safety or improve business operations of healthcare organizations.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 3, 2025

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has selected Childrens Hospital of Orange County in Tustin, CA, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of Allen, TX, as the recipients of its 2025BeRAD Professionalism Award.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

Eliot Siegel, MD; Stanislav Spiridonov, MD; Nathan Gee, MD; and Anthony Chang, PhD, are among a niche gathering of early adopters, entrepreneurial physicians, medical physicists, and investors with a sweet spot for nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 25, 2024

Previous reports have documented healthcare access disparities and lack of inclusion in clinical research regarding historically underserved populations. 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.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are among those monitoring the clinical and investigational role of AI in advanced cardiac CT imaging. Many thousands of patients who undergo a cardiac CT scan do not have significant narrowings of the heart arteries," added Prof.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Radiology Associates of North Texas (RANT) has implemented Sirona Medical's radiology operating system platform. RANT's more than 280 radiologists service 70 hospitals and 50 imaging centers, freestanding ER centers, and physician practices across rural and urban North Texas.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 25, 2025

In addition to including medical physicists from Duke Health, the Mayo Clinic, and the University of California, Los Angeles, the paper's authors include industry representatives from Canon Medical Systems USA , radiation dose tracking software developer Imalogix, Qaelum , and SiemensHealthineers.

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ScienceDaily

JULY 22, 2024

Large language models may pass medical exams with flying colors but using them for diagnoses would currently be grossly negligent. Medical chatbots make hasty diagnoses, do not adhere to guidelines, and would put patients' lives at risk. They have published a method that can be used to test the reliability of future medical chatbots.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2024

In 2023, nonhospital sites faced more competition compared with hospital-based facilities for oncology-related diagnostic imaging scans, according to IMV’s recently published 2023 Oncology in Diagnostic Imaging Market Outlook Report. out of 5 rating, compared with hospital sites, which registered a 3.7 Davin Korstjens. out of 5 rating.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

ChatGPT-4 consistently produces clinical vignettes that stereotype certain races, ethnicities, and genders, according to a study published in the January issue of The Lancet: Digital Health. Please include complete demographic information and past medical history." “I I am a medical educator. prevalence estimates.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 18, 2024

Time to antibiotic therapy (from triage, not from onset of infection) has become a quality metric to improve the time to administration of these medications. NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT Length of Hospital Stay 3325 patients Prehospital Abx: 1680 pts No Prehospital Abx: 1645 pts Pooled Mean Difference: 4.50; 95% CI -3.34

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AuntMinnie

JULY 4, 2024

Davin Korstjens of IMV Medical Information Division. When it comes to hospitals' focus on specific clinical programs, 61% of respondents indicated that their hospital has a vascular surgery program, 54% have a cardiac surgery program, and 31% have a dedicated structural heart disease program -- all of which use fixed C-arm devices.

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MRI Network

MARCH 10, 2025

Hospital workers have a demanding, critical job that takes unique skills, compassion, and dedication. The Guthrie Clinic in Pennsylvania launched a new benefits plan that incorporates a 3% wage increase for nearly all providers. hospitals stands at 20.7%. Providence St. Motivations Behind the Increases Why the increases?

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 4, 2025

Nearly 100 stakeholders from a wide spectrum of cancer care -- including patient advocacy groups, hospitals, independent clinics, medical societies, and technology companies -- support the ROCR Act, according to ASTRO.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Israel-based Nano-X Imaging (Nanox) will conduct a clinical study evaluating its Nanox.ARC 3D imaging system in a clinical outpatient setting at Clalit Health Services-owned Beilinson Hospital, part of Rabin Medical Center.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 30, 2024

Martha Koperwhats, Texas Children's Hospital 2. Enrico Perez, Columbia Presbyterian-Cornell University Hospitals BEST RADIOLOGIST TRAINING PROGRAM 1. Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL MOST SIGNIFICANT NEWS EVENT IN RADIOLOGY 1. Increased use of medical imaging by other specialties (turf battles) HOTTEST CLINICAL PROCEDURE 1.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Previous research suggests that POCUS can help with access to healthcare by being used in geographic areas that don’t have easy access to medical facilities. Ward and colleagues described the experience of American radiology residents in two Nepalese clinics. The second outreach clinic was located about two hours east of Kathmandu.

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