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Radiology suffers in missile attack on Kyiv pediatric hospital

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X-ray and ultrasound machines were badly damaged in a rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital on July 8, according to radiologist Stanislav Rebenkov, MD. Rebenkov has been head of radiology at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital since 2020. Broken glass and damaged equipment are found throughout the hospital.

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Ukraine's top pediatric hospital rebuilds after bomb attack

AuntMinnie

Radiology staff at the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv are making steady progress with their plan to restore normal service after a devastating missile attack. On July 9, 2024, AuntMinnieEurope.com posted an article about the extensive damage caused to Ukraine's largest pediatric hospital.

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PET/CT reveals new infections in ICU patients

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The finding is from a study in two medical centers in the Netherlands in which patients with persistent illness underwent at least seven other types of diagnostic procedures prior to the PET/CT scans, including x-rays and CT scans, noted lead author Bram van Leer, MD, of the University of Groningen, and colleagues.

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Malaysian hospital to deploy AI x-ray software

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The largest private hospital system in Malaysia, Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway City (SMC), will integrate Annalise.ai’s Enterprise CXR chest x-ray technology into its medical imaging workflow. The software can detect up to 124 findings on chest x-rays within seconds, which can improve diagnostic speed and accuracy, SMC said.

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Diagnostic errors tied to patient harm

AuntMinnie

Diagnostic errors, including those from radiology among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), are common, according to a study published January 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine. years in 29 hospitals. They included data from 2,428 patients with an average age of 63.9

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CDC highlights radiology’s critical role in striving for ‘hospital diagnostic excellence’

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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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Diagnostic imaging service expenditures shifting to third-party providers

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hospitals spent an estimated $4.29 billion on service-related expenses for diagnostic imaging equipment, according to the recently published IMV 2023 Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Service Outlook Report. For 2022, 77% of hospitals have at least one service contract with an OEM and 64% have one with a third-party service provider.