Medical Xpress: Radiology

JUNE 21, 2024

For the first time, scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) used advanced imaging technology at the SickKids Nanoscale Biomedical Imaging Facility to reveal the atomic structure of an enzyme that neurons use to communicate.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That’s because the nation’s largest trade group for medical doctors is conducting a practice survey that could have big implications for physician payment.

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Health Imaging

JUNE 12, 2023

Patients might sometimes undergo unnecessary and costly evaluations when specialists do not provide referrers with all of the necessary information.

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Diagnostic Imaging

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While ChatGPT has the potential to help streamline responses to imaging-related questions from patients, the authors of a new study found that a third of ChatGPT responses to unprompted questions on medical imaging were not “fully relevant.”

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Researchers examined the brains of bilingual and monolingual people using fMRI, only to find improved communication between isolated regions in those who learn a second language at a young age.

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Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

After looking into the case, officials discovered that a coding error prevented the radiology report, which contained critical findings, from ever being sent to the referring provider.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JUNE 26, 2023

There are cases that warrant verbal communication with referring clinicians, but making that communication happen can, at times, be a challenging responsibility.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 21, 2024

Online access to medical records has become standard practice, making sharing radiology reports and communicating findings much more streamlined.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 10, 2024

Experts underlined the importance of radiologist-patient communication, which can include building rapport, clear descriptions of procedures and taking time for questions.

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Ben White

MARCH 4, 2024

They’re pressuring docs to transition despite the reality that SimplePractice is currently mostly used by nonphysician therapists and is half-baked as an EHR: They don’t have labs! They don’t have snippets or dot-phrases! They don’t even have e-prescribe! You get the idea.)

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The rule seeks to improve communication between health insurers, physicians and the independent entities that arbitrate disagreements over out-of-network payments.

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ScienceDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2024

There is new evidence that the cells responsible for communication in the brain may be structured differently in children with autism. Researchers discovered that in some areas of the brain neuron density varies in children with autism when compared to the general population.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for communicating with patients regarding their breast density. Lars Grimm, MD, from the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) spoke with AuntMinnie.com on how facilities can successfully implement guidance from the U.S.

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Ben White

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The progressive ease of information acquisition and low-effort good-enough “work” generation may be good for a lot of things, but actually internalizing the skills of deliberation, argumentation, and communication? Probably not so much. The post Write-nots and Think-nots first appeared on Ben White.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The administration is seeking greater communication between the manufacturers of breakthrough devices and physician professional societies such as the ACR.

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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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Health Imaging

AUGUST 22, 2024

Social and communication symptoms appear to be more severe in children who display brain overgrowth on MRI scans.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Medical knowledge is regularly communicated with people via news media, but sometimes this information can become lost in translation as complex terminology may not be well understood by the general public. This can lead to instances of misinformation being widespread, with radiology not immune to this.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It’s been two and a half years since Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nuance Communications for a reported $19.7 At the time of the March 2022 transaction, Microsoft said it liked Nuance for its core strengths—AI-powered voice recognition and related software and services—across numerous industries.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 6, 2024

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine recently implemented such a platform, hoping to cut back on other modes of communication in its reading room.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

DxEx, as the agency calls it for short, ensures that imaging and other tests are ordered, interpreted, communicated and acted upon appropriately.

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Health Imaging

MAY 11, 2023

Not only could the materials reduce patient exposure to ionizing radiation, they also could reduce costs associated with traditional X-ray equipment, according to newly published research in Nature Communications.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

In a study that included hundreds of radiologist recommendations for additional imaging, there was a threefold increase in follow-up adherence when radiologists utilized a voluntary closed-loop communication tool that required structured recommendations.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2024

However, the researchers cautioned that this could impact communication between patients and radiologists when discussing findings. Radiologists should consider mechanisms to ensure timely and appropriate communication of important findings to ordering providers,” Tan and co-authors wrote.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 2, 2024

In addition, ChatGPT significantly improved radiologists' decision-making processes (14/20; 70%), structured and simplified radiology reports (8/8; 100%), enhanced patient communication and outcomes (5/6; 83.3%), generated radiology reports (4/4; 100%), and performed on radiology board examinations (6/6; 100%).

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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.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 9, 2024

Featuring advanced wireless, processing, and communication technologies, the InstadoseVUE device provides more stable and reliable connectivity, faster dose communication and data transmissions, and increased battery life of up to five years.

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Health IT Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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MRI Network

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are some best practices that can help you make hybrid work successful: Communicate. Communication is the number one essential in making hybrid working a success. Deploy your communication tools so that people know where everyone is on a given day and what projects they’re working on. Listen to your people.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

The results suggest an association between patient worry and abnormal results, signifying an opportunity for providers to tailor their communication strategy.

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Radiology Business

MAY 3, 2023

Heller, MD, MBA, the company's associate CMO for health policy and communications, detailed his thoughts in a recently published editorial.

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Cassling's MRI

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

First and only FDA-cleared, multi-vendor remote scanning software Enables remote scanning and support for up to three scanners simultaneously Addresses technologist shortage and standardizes care across sites Siemens Healthineers has announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of syngo Virtual Cockpit , a private, secure communication (..)

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“Transparency is the degree to which appropriate information about a device – including its intended use, development, performance, and, when available, logic – is clearly communicated to stakeholders,” the group wrote. The full article is available here.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

Almost 10% of radiology reports contain such an alert and communication of them is crucial to keeping patients safe and avoiding malpractice lawsuits.

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ScienceDaily

AUGUST 15, 2024

By imaging much faster and with less harm to brain tissue than traditional two-photon microscopy, the new approach could provide a clearer view of how neurons communicate in real time, leading to new insights into brain function and neurological diseases.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 24, 2024

Medical-related fax communications are business-critical,” says Shawn Freligh , SVP and General Manager at Upland Software.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 25, 2024

It is important to note that this should complement, not replace, the communication between health care providers and patients.” Some of the raters also criticized the ChatGPT-generated texts in the areas of response format and language, relevance, and misleading or missing critical information. The complete study can be found here.

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