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

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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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The rise of theranostics: Part 5 -- Advice from center administrators

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As nuclear medicine therapies gain stature compared to nuclear medicine in diagnostic imaging, hospital administrators may be eyeing the potential of adding theranostics services. At the time, their cancer center served a significant cancer population in the region and maintained robust and ever-expanding PET diagnostics.

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Imaging societies' reactions mixed on finalized MPFS, HOPPS rules

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) final rules. The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) was disappointed in the final MPFS rule. Although the 2025 MPFS calls for an overall 2.9%

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The rise of theranostics: Part 3 -- What is a theranostics center?

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Eliot Siegel, MD; Stanislav Spiridonov, MD; Nathan Gee, MD; and Anthony Chang, PhD, are among a niche gathering of early adopters, entrepreneurial physicians, medical physicists, and investors with a sweet spot for nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, and radiation oncology.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 2 -- Moving into communities

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Even if some private urology, radiation oncology practices, or radiologist groups are building the ability to perform theranostics, experts are cautious about patient management, radiation safety, and the risk of unnecessary imaging. However, few freestanding theranostics centers exist today. Hope added.

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GE HealthCare Announces Agreement to Acquire MIM Software

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Recognizing the industry transformation taking place as digital innovation reshapes the experience of patients and providers, GE HealthCare – a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital innovator – is focused on developing smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital.

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The rise of theranostics: Part 1 -- Gaining momentum

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Theranostics pairs diagnostic biomarkers that can be visualized on nuclear medicine imaging with therapeutic agents that share a specific target in diseased cells or tissues. This theranostic therapy first demonstrated how using diagnostic imaging with a radioactive probe, gallium-68 (Ga-68 dotatate injection), could locate NETs on PET scans.