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. billion healthcare facility. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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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. The primary outcome measure was the proportion of inappropriate imaging requests made per department before and after implementation.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 11, 2025

Medical imaging is the economic artery of modern diagnostics, with AI-driven advancements prompting clinicians to rethink how they interpret scans. For instance, the global medical imaging AI market 1 is projected to expand eightfold by 2030, reaching an estimated $8.18 Ravinder Singh. Vaibhavi Sonetha, PhD.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 30, 2025

Ultrasound is the only imaging modality currently used in space, with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) tools examining astronauts for various conditions. Chiao, a former NASA astronaut and ISS commander, was part of the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity(ADUM) project.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Affinity Equity Partners is buying 30-year-old Lumus Imaging, which employs over 2,000 imaging experts and support staff across 150 care sites.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2025

Oxford Brain Diagnostics' CDM Insights software has been granted 510(k) clearance by the U.S. tesla and 3-tesla scanners and delivers outputs in the form of images and numerical values. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It processes clinical MRI scan data from both 1.5-tesla The company said the software will be available to all U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2025

Private equity firm HCAP Partners has launched Integrated Diagnostic Services, a mobile diagnostics company focused on expanding access to mobile imaging and lab services. The services are meant for residents of skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, and home health providers.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine of the Moscow Healthcare Department in Russia is highlighting ultrasound training phantoms it has created, including a fetal phantom, that aims to help sonographers-in-training. It is the tenth model developed by the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine.

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Radiology Business

MAY 21, 2024

The FIND Act is supported by several industry stakeholders including ACR and the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

CMS is moving forward with a proposal to issue separate reimbursement for radiopharmaceuticals—a change long lobbied for by the imaging industry.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2024

In his talk, Dean Huang, MD, from King’s College London in England outlined novel applications for CEUS in vascular and nonvascular imaging, as well as therapeutic and potential future applications. “Ultrasound contrast agent use can be ubiquitous in interventional practice and can solve many logistical or clinical diagnostic problems,” he said.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

PET/CT scans with an experimental prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) imaging agent can identify supraclavicular nodal metastasis in newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients, researchers have reported. Image and caption available for republishing under Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0 DEED, Attribution 4.0

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The use of AI in thoracic imaging has begun to demonstrate "cumulative evidence of effectiveness," but more testing and research are needed to determine its feasibility for this application, according to a commentary published February 25 in Radiology. van Beek, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. in an accompanying editorial.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

PET/CT imaging can serve as a metabolic guide to increase the accuracy of needle biopsies in patients with suspicious lung nodules, according to a study published January 18 in the European Journal of Radiology. Image courtesy of the European Journal of Radiology. A team that included researchers in the U.K., Greece, and the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

A significant percentage of imaging studies ordered by office-based healthcare providers are self-interpreted rather than referred to radiologists for reading, according to researchers from the Harvey L. The large differences between radiologists and nonradiologists in interpretation training could lead to differences in diagnostic accuracy."

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 2, 2024

American College of Radiology CEO Dana Smetherman, MD, is a diagnostic radiologist who specializes in breast imaging. She spoke to Health Imaging about some key issues that have her attention in 2024 and beyond.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

The crew will be in orbit for three to five days and will conduct more than 20 science experiments, including taking images of each other with an ultraportable x-ray machine. The Fen2 mission launched on March 31 at 9:46 p.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It's better to take Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) upgrading rules into account when it comes to deciding whether a patient with clinically significant prostate cancer needs a biopsy, researchers have reported. "[Our]

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Radiology Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The two giants in their respective industries plan to debut the first “MammogramNow” clinic Dec. 8 at the supercenter in Milford, Delaware.

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Previous studies have demonstrated that imaging overuse is pervasive in the ED, with “defensive medicine” a common reason, experts wrote in JAMA Network Open.

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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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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2025

Komen applauded the passage of breast imaging legislation in Virginia that the organization said eliminates barriers to essential care. SB 1436 will allow people with state-regulated health plans to receive diagnostic and supplemental imaging without high patient cost sharing, Komen said.

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Radiology Business

MAY 24, 2024

Consulting firm Vizient published its fifth annual imaging trends report, highlighting issues such as staffing, remote scanning, AI, sustainability and "systemness."

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Health Imaging

JULY 1, 2024

With more providers now integrating imaging into their diagnostic processes, there is greater need to improve the ease of access.

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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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Health Imaging

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Researchers from the University of Michigan scanned 52 patients at multiple field strengths to make the comparison.

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 16, 2024

Norway has worked to address unnecessary imaging in its public healthcare system, sharing lessons learned in the journal Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Metairie, Louisiana-based radiology group is acquiring Houston MRI & Diagnostic Imaging, ballooning its center total to 48 across five states.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

Radiologist Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, emphasized that poor-quality MRI images are leading to prostate cancer overdiagnosis. Barentsz also suggested decreasing opportunistic screening by standardizing the entire diagnostic path. "We What is the quality of the images I used in my study?

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2025

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has a diagnostic accuracy comparable to digital mammography for women referred for breast imaging, a study published January 10 in Cancer Treatment and Research Communications found. The retrospective study included data collected from 10,742 total exams from the two modalities. compared to 0.90

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Radiology Business

JULY 12, 2024

"The failure of CMS to make virtual supervision permanent is certainly disappointing,” attorney and radiology policy expert Tom Greeson wrote Thursday.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The legislation changes state insurance laws to require individual, group and nonprofit health plans to reimburse for both screening and diagnostic imaging.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 3, 2024

celebrates this year's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, radiology experts and advocates reflect on the big year that breast imaging has had. The mandate requires imaging facilities to disclose breast density information to patients receiving breast cancer screening. As the U.S. From the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 8, 2025

Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) was highly aligned with F-18 FDG-PET -- a cornerstone of dementia diagnostics -- in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study published April 8 in Radiology. DMI can be performed with the same MRI scanner that supplies standard structural images, the authors explained. Image courtesy of RSNA.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

ChatGPT-4 has greater diagnostic accuracy than ChatGPT-3.5 when assessing text-based medical imaging cases, a study published January 16 in Radiology found. The team investigated the respective diagnostic accuracy of ChatGPT-3.5 Imaging findings were originally characterized by radiologists. for the March snapshots.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The finding is from a study that validated a fast protocol in 121 clinical patients, with seven independent readers giving the algorithm high scores for reducing image noise and improving image sharpness, noted lead author Jan Vosshenrich, MD, of New York University in New York City, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Choi team compared the diagnostic performance of LI-RADS v2024 with that of LI-RADS v2017 for detecting HCC in at-risk patients. A,B) Images from an initial ultrasound examination showed no identifiable lesions and received a consensus ultrasound category of US-1. Final analysis included 407 patients with a median age of 56 years.

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