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How can Enterprise Imaging empower radiology in the modern health network?

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With strong demand for medical imaging in many differing clinical contexts, hospitals are managing growing routine imaging demands while balancing teaching practices, ambulatory services, primary care, and subspecialty services. billion healthcare facility. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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ASTRO vice chair highlights momentum for ROCR Act

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Along with the government relations committee, this includes membership roles on the ASTRO PAC Board, the Mega Issue Working Group, and the ASTRO Rural Task Force. Furthermore, the bill aims to align financial incentives with clinical guidelines and unify payment across care delivery settings. Its also going to save Medicare money.

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Radiology departments can adopt responsible frameworks to deploy AI

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Researchers led by MD/PhD candidate Alexis Nolin-Lapalme from the University of Montreal described an open-source software program that they developed, integrating AI models into PACS, called PACS-AI. It's like any clinical tool as well. The platform works as an interface between existing clinical PACS and AI models.

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Radiology practices can make breastfeeding more accessible for returning mothers

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“Other training programs have implemented initiatives to purchase portable pumps with minimal noise that can be utilized in the reading room if the user wishes, diminishing time away from clinical and educational opportunities.”

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ECR: Use MR enterography for complex IBD cases

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The images should be on PACS to allow comparison, and I think we should be engaged, so I'm deciding to train my own gastroenterology team. Educate your patient in every clinical contact, he advised. Reducing unnecessary investigations and following surveillance guidelines can reduce the carbon footprint of IBD clinical care.

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Moore’s Law for radiologists

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By locking doors, retreating to hard-to-find PACS stations, giving up clinical meetings, and not answering phones or emails, radiologists found they could get more cross-sectional done. Radiologists then started a new tactic: hiding. Working from home ticked all these boxes.

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Commercial AI devices lack clinical validation, study finds

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Commercial AI devices that lack adequate clinical validation may pose risks for patient care – and unfortunately, that’s true for almost half of the tools cleared so far by the U.S. Most notably, 226 of 521 (43%) lacked published clinical validation data.

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