AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2025

GE HealthCare plans to launch its Flyrcado (flurpiridaz F-18) injection in the U.S. Flyrcadois a unit-dose PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) agent intended for patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. The company received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the injection in 2024.Flyrcadois

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Care Innovation Hub leverages the strengths of academia and industry to create, evaluate and translate novel technology into a clinical setting with the goals of advancing diagnosis and treatment of disease, improving hospital operations and driving more equitable access to care. tim.hodson Mon, 01/27/2025 - 10:11 Jan.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

Researchers led by Li-Da Chen, PhD, from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China found that their combined sequential algorithm improved specificity by over 20% for predicting pathologically advanced liver fibrosis compared with the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) alone. “AI-based

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 24, 2024

GE HealthCare (GEHC) has installed its first Allia IGS Pulse image-guided system for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in interventional cardiology.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 14, 2024

found that cirrhosis patients admitted over the weekend for TIPS procedures exhibited higher incidences of mortality, hepatic encephalopathy, acute kidney injury, and transfers to alternate hospital facilities. They also experienced longer times from admission to surgery, extended hospital stays, and higher overall hospital costs.

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MRI Network

JANUARY 25, 2025

As a result, healthcare expenditures will rise, and the industry’s workforce will see a surge in demand across many roles connected to aging populations. Here is what to expect in the coming years as the baby boomers age for someone interested in healthcare workforce trends. healthcare system is at a crossroads.

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Vesta Teleradiology

MARCH 21, 2025

The 2025 Medicare reimbursement updates bring significant changes for healthcare providers, particularly in coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and other imaging services. Healthcare providers must navigate these reimbursement shifts carefully to maintain financial stability while continuing to offer high-quality imaging services.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. Dmitry Beyder.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A steady increase in the volume of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) exams is occurring, especially at mid- to high-level community hospitals across the country. If staff choose the right subgroup of patients to examine with CCTA imaging, they can save their hospital, healthcare system, and insurance companies a lot of money.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Osteoarthritis is a leading cause of chronic pain and long-term disability in adults, with more than 80% of cases involving the knee, and the estimated healthcare costs associated with the disease in the U.S. exceed $80 billion, the authors explained. Utility benefit values were derived at short-term (0.5 versus 18.4% to 29.2%.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

Key concerns include the accuracy of AI used for this purpose and whether hospitals would be willing to pay for it, wrote a team led by Adam Eltorai, MD, of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. practiced in community hospitals. that it would add costs to the healthcare provider.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A large study, needed for FDA clearance, demonstrated that the use of icobrain aria significantly increases the accuracy of ARIA assessments by radiologists and hence allows for safer use of new amyloid-beta targeting therapies for Alzheimer’s disease patients. Slow Adoption of Alzheimer’s Treatments Amid Safety Concerns Figure 1.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 14, 2024

milla1cf Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:45 May 14, 2024 — University Hospitals (UH) and Siemens Healthineers announce a 10-year strategic alliance that builds on their 40-year history of clinical and research collaboration. tesla and 3T scanners. Separately, Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, will provide linear accelerators.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 6, 2024

Researchers from Zurich have developed a cumulative clinical risk (CCR) score that may provide an early predictive marker for long-term brain alterations and cognitive impairments in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Figure courtesy of Melanie Ehrler, PhD, et al.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Future healthcare success will rely heavily on giving priority to key technologies like point-of-care ultrasound, 3D printing of anatomical organs, and artificial intelligence, RSNA 2023 attendees are set to find out during Tuesday's keenly anticipated international session on Singapore. is a national platform for imaging AI, Tan explained.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 8, 2024

Because factors such as financial distress have been linked to higher mortality rates among patients with cancer -- in part because people may not get the screening exams they need and thus present with more advanced disease, wrote a team led by Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD, of the Ohio State University in Columbus. A designated team member (e.g.,

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Everything Rad

APRIL 14, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is deciding on expanding their federal program known as the B Reader Program. While potentially expanding the role for NPs and PAs in the healthcare system by becoming certified B Readers. By Ann London BS. What Do You Think?

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

1, 2024 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced a significant adjustment to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS). We are deeply grateful to SNMMI members, patients, healthcare providers, and community advocates who joined us in supporting this important cause.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 16, 2024

The RSNA and GE HealthCare plan to collaborate on mammography technology, training, and educational tools to lower the breast cancer mortality rate in Tanzania. The project -- part of the RSNA’s Global Learning Center (GLC) initiative, which it launched in 2020 -- aims to help lower Tanzania's 50% breast cancer mortality rate, the RSNA said.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 8, 2024

GE HealthCare expects to leverage MIM Software’s imaging analytics and digital workflow capabilities across various care areas to accelerate innovation and differentiate its solutions for the benefit of patients and healthcare systems around the world.

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Vesta Teleradiology

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Around 75,000 healthcare workers, including radiology professionals, were on strike at Kaiser Permanente across five states and Washington, D.C. healthcare history. Why Do Healthcare Strikes Like This Happen? As of today, healthcare workers from St. This strike is considered one of the largest in U.S.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 2, 2024

milla1cf Tue, 04/02/2024 - 18:51 April 2, 2024 — Less than three months after signing an agreement to acquire MIM Software Inc. , GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. This includes continuing to grow MIM Software’s offerings for end-to-end standardization across large healthcare system fleets.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2024

“Radiology has been one of the hardest hit departments in healthcare, with resounding effects that have outlasted the pandemic itself, some of which have reshaped the field and perhaps permanently,” the Farag team wrote. The researchers reported a slight increase in wRVUs in May and June of 2020.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 6, 2024

christine.book Mon, 05/06/2024 - 12:13 May 6, 2024 — GE HealthCare has announced the unveiling of its SIGNA MAGNUS [i] , an FDA 510(k) pending head-only magnetic resonance (MR) scanner designed to explore advancements in neuroscience, which have been restricted by the performance limitations of conventional whole-body MR systems.

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Vesta Teleradiology

APRIL 15, 2025

Increasing use of imaging in preventive and chronic disease care. The Real-World Impact: Delayed Diagnoses, Frustrated Patients For hospitals and imaging centers, the shortage translates into longer turnaround times, heavier workloads, and sometimes critical delays. And for rural or smaller hospitals, the challenge is even greater.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 20, 2024

In response, GE HealthCare is proud to announce the development of its new MINItrace Magni, designed to be a small footprint, cost effective cyclotron for reliable, in-house production of commercial PET tracers and radiometals – like Gallium-68 – through solid target technology.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2024

A group at Mount Sinai Hospital developed a “pipeline” of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to analyze lung areas in DDR image sequences from patients. The model performed well enough to act as a surrogate to standard pulmonary function tests, they found. Image and caption courtesy of Chest Pulmonary.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 19, 2024

mtaschetta-millane Fri, 07/19/2024 - 09:25 July 19, 2024 — GE HealthCare announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Intelligent Ultrasound Group PLC’s clinical artificial intelligence (AI) software business for total consideration of approximately $51 million.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 28, 2023

GE HealthCare has signed an agreement with Axim Life Isotopes South Africa (Pty) Ltd. GE HealthCare will deliver the Cyclotrons to ALISA’s laboratory facility in Midrand, South Africa early next year, giving patients in Africa access to medical advancements. It can allow early and precise diagnosis.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

The midtown center has been in operation since the 1950s and currently operates 17 outpatient imaging centers across the greater Austin metropolitan area, serving 24 area hospitals. Columbus Radiology, like many other imaging centers, is contracted to serve local hospitals, in this case throughout Ohio. "We

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pickhardt believes using additional clinical data on CT imaging could save healthcare costs, especially when AI tools are used in parallel, suggesting it is a cost-effective or even cost-saving strategy for personalized or precision medicine. Healthcare consumes as much as 18% of the U.S. There are better ways to move toward value."

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 7, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 03/07/2024 - 20:10 March 7, 2024 — GE HealthCare will showcase its industry-leading portfolio of artificial intelligence ( AI )-enabled medical devices and digital solutions in Booth 2500 at the Health Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) Global Health Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, FL from March 11-15, 2024.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 21, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 06/21/2024 - 20:24 June 21, 2024 — GE HealthCare , a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, and MediView XR Inc., Contact your GE HealthCare or MediView sales representative to learn more.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Serac Healthcare and the University of Exeter are highlighting that the first patient has been scanned with a novel molecular SPECT imaging agent, technetium-99m (Tc-99m) maraciclatide. This is part of a phase II study titled "PRospective Evaluation of Interstitial Lung Disease progression with quantitative CT (PREDICT-ILD)."

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APRIL 21, 2023

Interventional radiology – and specifically interventional CT – plays a key role in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. We are thrilled to now increase global access to this innovative solution and its many clinical benefits to healthcare systems around the world.” Teriitehau, H. Sénéchal, F.

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Omega Medical Imaging

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Triple Aim was developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as an approach to optimize health system performance. Before the Triple Aim was developed, improved patient experience was the primary focus of healthcare. of our GDP on healthcare in 2019 – $3.8 The pressures on healthcare providers are immense.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The model may be deployed locally to preserve data privacy and serve as a framework for other imaging modalities and diseases in children, noted lead author Yufeng Zhang, PhD, and colleagues. Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in neonates is a devastating disease, with mortality rates ranging up to 30%.

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