AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A large percentage of medical imaging created by most hospitals tends to come from the radiology department. In fact, radiology often forms the foundation of diagnostics and treatment for hundreds of other departments including cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, and even dermatology.

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Healthcare Healthcare Imaging Electronic Medical Record 261

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

Our study showed that the availability of PET/CT prior to the [percutaneous needle lung biopsy] improves the diagnostic biopsy rates,” wrote lead author Konstantinos Stefanidis, MD, of King’s College Hospital in London, and colleagues. A team that included researchers in the U.K., Greece, and the U.S.

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Diagnostic Minimally Invasive Procedure Disease Imaging 310

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Bracco Imaging and Zereau have signed an agreement to launch the second stage of their collaborative research program aimed at reducing contrast media in wastewater by using sustainable urine filtration systems in hospitals and diagnostic facilities.

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Hospital Diagnostic Imaging 147

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2025

Recruiting remains a key concern among both academic and hospital radiology practices, with 67% of radiologists reporting that their practices are understaffed, researchers have found. Both hospital (85%) and national (89%) practices were more likely than academic ones (77%) to offer malpractice insurance.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 24, 2025

The HCAP Partners-backed group will provide X-ray, ultrasound, EKGs and lab work, serving as a cheaper alternative to hospitals.

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X-ray Diagnostic Ultrasound Hospital 243

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) had little effect on reducing inappropriate imaging orders by doctors in university hospitals, according to a study published February 10 in JAMA. Between December 2021 and June 2024, 13 departments at three hospitals implemented the CDSS intervention and 13 departments did not.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 24, 2024

This change takes effect July 1, 2025.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 10, 2025

This ranges from a high of 567 scans per physician in over 400 bed hospitals, to a low of 119 in under 200 bed hospitals. Follow IMV Medical Information on LinkedIn for more diagnostic imaging updates. Davin Korstjens is the Director of Market Intelligence at IMV Medical Information Division, part of Science and Medicine Group.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

S5-STCE1-1 | Learning Center Theater 1 A study in this session suggests that adjacent x-ray imaging had low diagnostic efficacy for both upper and lower limb regions. Chest x-ray AI evaluated in clinical routine at a Norwegian hospital Monday, December 2 | 1:30 p.m.-1:40 Is adjacent x-ray imaging in the ER justified? 2:40 p.m. |

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While academic medical center radiology departments are expanding significantly and hospitals are adapting to health system consolidation trends, demand for innovative imaging informatics remains strong among operations and physician teams. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Imaging Radiology Revenue Cycle Management 264

Radiology Business

JULY 14, 2023

The agency issued its solicitation as part of the 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule, released late Thursday.

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Radiopharmaceuticals Diagnostic Hospital IT 246

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The filter was used with 170 patients who underwent inpatient interventional cardiac procedures with Iomeron 300 ( Bracco Diagnostics ) and with another group of 140 patients who underwent an outpatient MRI exam with Dotaram ( Guerbet ). She and her colleagues reported that contrast removal efficiency was 99% for Iomeron and 99% for Dotarem.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

He earned his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Florida. This year's Most Effective Radiology Administrator/Manager wears multiple hats at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) and Washington University (WU) in St. Louis, MO Dmitry Beyder.

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Radiologist Education Clinic Radiology 360

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many diagnostic radiologists became pure CT and MRI specialists. 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. So radiologists started dropping duties. This was all delegated.

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Radiologist Fluoroscopy Radiograph Radiographer 312

AuntMinnie

JULY 10, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new reimbursement plan July 10 for diagnostic PET scans that would provide separate payments for radiopharmaceuticals, as well as an extra payment for hospitals when they use domestically produced technetium-99m (Tc-99m).

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Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmaceuticals Imaging Medicare 305

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

A team led by Mark Slidell, MD, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, found that CT remains the most used imaging method for diagnostic pediatric appendicitis in hospitals that don’t participate in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Pediatrics (NSQIP-P). hospitals over time. NSQIP-P hospital 71.7%

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Vesta Teleradiology

JANUARY 8, 2025

For communities in Illinois and Ohio, where many rural hospitals and outpatient centers serve as lifelines, ensuring timely and accurate radiological services is crucial. By reducing overhead costs associated with maintaining in-house radiologists, rural hospitals can ensure uninterrupted imaging services without compromising care quality.

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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. However, it will not be open-source and is not intended for diagnostic use.

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Hospital DICOM Radiology Technologist Education 147

AuntMinnie

APRIL 13, 2025

In her presentation, Vronique Suttels, PhD, from Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland discussed her teams findings, showing that AI POCUS interpretation fulfills requirements by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a nonsputum TB triage test. This, in turn, would improve triaging for early detection and treatment, Suttels added.

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Ultrasound X-ray Disease Diagnose 219

AuntMinnie

MARCH 17, 2025

SubtleHD offers radiologists, imaging centers, and hospitals a vendor-neutral AI tool that integrates with existing MRI scanners, thus allowing facilities to run faster scans and add additional patients while enhancing diagnostic confidence, according to the firm.

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Medical Hospital MRI Radiologist 147

Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Fevers of unknown origin account for around 2% of hospitalizations and can present significant diagnostic challenges for providers.

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Hospital Imaging Diagnostic 261

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

He earned his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Florida. An assistant professor of radiology and radiological science, Francis Deng, MD, is the Johns Hopkins radiology department's co-director of medical student diagnostic radiology electives.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Texas Childrens Hospital experts detailed their efforts Jan. 30 in the journal Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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Radiology Hospital Diagnostic 257

AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

Amy Patel, MD,director of the Breast Care Center at Liberty Hospital in Missouri, said that while there was uncertainty in the events leading up to the pandemic, her health system was fortunate in having an infectious disease specialist who closely tracked the diseases progress around the world.

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Radiation Oncology Radiology X-ray Radiation 204

AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2025

The members of the new class of AIUM Fellows include the following: Keith R. Barron, Jr.,

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Ultrasound Hospital Diagnostic IT 130

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.

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Imaging Diagnostic Imaging Hospital X-ray 272

Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Fevers of unknown origin account for around 2% of hospitalizations and can present significant diagnostic challenges for providers.

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Hospital Diagnostic Imaging 245

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

"Practical AI implementation will require objective onsite performance evaluation, institutional information technology infrastructure integration, and postdeployment monitoring," wrote a team led by Eui Jin Hwang, MD, PhD, of Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea. van Beek, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K.

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Radiograph Radiographer Radiographer Imaging 164

Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Relative to other hospitals, those serving racial and ethnic minorities had significantly lower odds of offering 7 of 12 diagnostic radiology exams, new research shows.

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Radiology Hospital Diagnostic 260

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

7, according to the recently published IMV 2023 Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Service Outlook Report. With respect to hospital bed size, 300- to 399-bed hospitals have the highest rating with an average of 5.5/7, 7, while less than 100-bed hospitals have the lowest rating with a rating of 4.4/7.

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Ultrasound MRI Diagnostic Imaging Hospital 264

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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Hospital Radiography Radiation Diagnostic 130

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Specificity 50% 91% Diagnostic accuracy 80.1% The authors also called for more studies on neonates receiving serial LUS during hospitalization. Comparison of LUS to x-ray scoring to determine whether preterm newborns need surfactant for suspected RDS Measure X-ray LUS AUC 0.811 0.962 Sensitivity 93.3%

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X-ray Ultrasound Clinic Hospital 215

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. They analyzed metrics to estimate age-specific effective dose per IR procedure type and diagnostic fluoroscopy exam.

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Fluoroscopy Interventional Radiology X-ray Imaging Modalities 273

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 27, 2023

While a top priority across all hospital types, improving MRI department workflow and productivity is the number one priority for hospitals with 200 beds or more. One strategy hospitals are using to achieve this goal is to leverage AI and machine learning software. Hospital (fixed) 7.2% Hospitals with mobile MRI 6.1

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Hospital MRI Healthcare Healthcare 288

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A team led by Jack Scaife from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City found that children with these sociodemographics are more likely to present to hospitals that don’t use ultrasound to diagnose acute appendicitis. It also found that they are less likely to undergo ultrasound at hospitals that have ultrasound resources.

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Ultrasound Hospital Diagnose Diagnostic 261

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Diagnostic imaging provider ImageCare Radiology, a privately-owned radiology and imaging center group in New Jersey, has exited its hospital-based practice, effective November 21, to focus on outpatient services. ImageCare supports 23 outpatient centers across northern and central New Jersey.

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Hospital Radiology Diagnostic Imaging Diagnostic 100

AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2024

Radiology administrators are confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) new report for the second quarter of 2024. They're also confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology volumes will grow monthly.

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Radiology Medicare Interventional Radiology Hospital 288