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Shaping the future of radiology in 2025: Trends, threats, and opportunities

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Radiology is undergoing significant changes in 2025, driven by healthcare advancements, regulatory challenges, and workforce dynamics. Key trends include hospital consolidation of radiology services, the need for stronger cybersecurity, and innovative strategies to address staffing shortages.

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Coding changes that will impact diagnostic and interventional radiology practices in 2025

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Although relatively few of these changes will impact radiology practices, its essential to know what they are and adjust your practice systems accordingly. Interventional radiology Percutaneous RF Ablation of Thyroid There have been no CPT codes to report RF ablation of the thyroid under imaging guidance. Erin Stephens.

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How accurate is ChatGPT for differential diagnoses?

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and ChatGPT-4 can produce differential diagnoses from transcribed radiologic findings of patient cases across a wide range of subspecialties, according to a study published October 15 in Radiology. The investigators culled 339 cases across multiple radiologic subspecialties from Top 3 Differentials in Radiology.

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What has radiology learned in 5 years since COVID hit U.S.?

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and radiology has learned much since then, according to experts who directly dealt with the diseases impact. They also spearheaded the development of guidelines for the American College of Radiology (ACR), recognizing the role that imaging had in diagnosing COVID-19 in patients.

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Radiology group will pay $2.35M to settle allegations it violated False Claims Act by submitting sham diagnoses

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Renaissance Imaging Medical Associates, a California-based Rad Partners affiliate, allegedly created false radiology reports supporting the diagnosis of spinal enthesopathy.

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F-18 FAPI PET/CT upstages more newly-diagnosed breast cancers

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F-18 fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) PET/CT leads to significant upstaging in newly diagnosed breast cancer, according to research published September 5 in Academic Radiology. The team put F-18 FAPI PET/CT to the test, comparing results to those of F-18 FDG PET/CT in systemic staging of newly diagnosed breast cancer.

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New method proposed for diagnosing Alzheimer’s

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Researchers in Germany have proposed a new approach derived from brain PET imaging for diagnosing and staging Alzheimers disease, according to a study published March 25 in Radiology.

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