AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

and radiology has learned much since then, according to experts who directly dealt with the diseases impact. Imaging technologists meanwhile were reallocated across the hospital system to assist in various departments. This especially goes for smaller hospitals that may not have adequate resources for a centralized tracking system.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 10, 2025

The Health Tech Investment Act would assign all FDA-approved AI-enabled medical devices to a new technology ambulatory payment classification (APC) in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for a minimum of five years.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The study results suggest that the model, called TotalSegmentator MRI, could improve radiology department workload, said senior author Jakob Wasserthal, PhD, of University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. The team then assessed the model's performance using Dice scoring. for 13 anatomic structures).

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In further research highlighted at the meeting, Jordan Strom, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston shared study findings that indicate ultrasound-enhancing agents can improve the accuracy and reliability of a standard echocardiogram performed to evaluate heart disease.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Safety net hospitals provide equitable care in breast cancer screening in terms of race and ethnicity, a study published December 12 in Academic Radiology found. The Boyko team identified predictors tied to lower mortality in women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at a safety net hospital. for age (p = 0.001) and 6.37

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

But the pressure kept building, and the number of CT and MRI scans grew by 20% annually in my hospital. We understand so much more about the human body, disease, and how to detect it accurately via cross-sectional means. Paul McCoubrie, MBBS, is a consultant radiologist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, U.K.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Middlebrooks' research interest consists of using ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI to plot brain microstructure and develop surgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. We're more than 20 hospitals now," Beyder said. "I from Ukraine.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Prompt diagnosis of such pneumothorax is crucial, with delays linked to longer hospital lengths of stay and greater disease progression, experts write in Academic Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

A PET study has revealed that women over the age of 70 who took menopausal hormone therapy (HT) more than a decade before have faster brain tau accumulation -- a key indicator of Alzheimers disease. The findings may inform [Alzheimers disease] risk discussions relating to womens reproductive health and treatment, the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Gastrointestinal imagers should use high-quality MR enterography for complex inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cases that can't be dealt with using intestinal ultrasound, even though both tests contribute to overall assessment, said an expert leading an advanced course on imaging Crohn's disease at ECR 2025. "MR

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A large percentage of medical imaging created by most hospitals tends to come from the radiology department. Silos like these are a critical stumbling block for hospital IT infrastructure interoperability. When it comes to medical imaging, radiology is what most often comes to mind, and for good reason.

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MRI Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges that “health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities.” Hospitals committed to addressing the root causes of healthcare disparities can start by addressing some of the following opportunities.

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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.

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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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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Women at high risk of breast cancer, such as those with a personal history or family history of the disease or those with dense breasts, may be recommended for supplemental imaging. However, access to MRI can be limited for some women. Using a retrospective dataset, they explored the feasibility of using an AI system (Transpara version 1.7.0,

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

The study included information from 212,393 participants between the ages of 50 and 79 from the 2022 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) dataset; of these, 28,483 were eligible for LCS according to the 2021 USPSTF criteria.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

PET brain scans show persistent brain inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), despite being treated with high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies, according to a recent study by researchers in Boston. This allows extended imaging acquisition times to measure TSPO as a biomarker, the team wrote.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Also, women with high levels of unmet social needs were more likely to present with late-stage breast disease. This included both an underserved safety-net hospital and a National Cancer Institute-designated academic cancer center.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. The percentage of patients impacted was small – just 4.5% of patients with dementia, the authors noted.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26 to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This makes disease severity classification important, but current scoring tools are limited, the researchers noted. It also explored any associations between POCUS findings and respiratory support at 12 and 24 hours, maximum respiratory support during hospitalization, disposition, and hospital length of stay.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2025

Flyrcadois a unit-dose PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) agent intended for patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. Pass-through payment status will allow the CMS to provide separate payments for the radiopharmaceutical and the PET-CT scan when performed with Flyrcado in the hospital outpatient setting.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In his presentation, Jae Seok Bae, MD, from Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea presented research that found that shear-wave velocity values measured after chemotherapy showed predictive performance in chemotherapy responsiveness in patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases.

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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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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

PET scans typically used for diagnosing prostate cancer may have value in detecting inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a case series published December 8 in Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. He was admitted to the hospital.

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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

MARCH 22, 2024

and 83.6%, respectively, a team led by Thanatchawan Polvieng, MD, of Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, reported. loss of muscle mass) on overall survival, disease-free survival, and postoperative outcomes among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent surgery.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

The findings could help clinicians tailor biopsy recommendations for men with low- to intermediate risk of the disease, according to the authors. To assess the algorithms potential impact, the team prospectively enrolled 205 men at an average age of 68, from December 2022 to July 2023 at two Seoul hospitals.

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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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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The MRI PDFF measure could improve patient care by giving clinicians a more accurate picture of liver disease, a team led by Tianyi Xia, MD, of Zhongda Hospital School of Medicine, Southeast University, in Nanjing, China. Research on the relationship between liver MRI PDFF and liver disease is lacking, according to Xia and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 4, 2024

When it comes to hospitals' focus on specific clinical programs, 61% of respondents indicated that their hospital has a vascular surgery program, 54% have a cardiac surgery program, and 31% have a dedicated structural heart disease program -- all of which use fixed C-arm devices. Weekends 21.5

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

A British Heart Foundation-funded study published May 29 in The Lancet co-authored by Chan used AI to analyze CCTA scans and clinical data from over 40,000 people at eight hospitals in the U.K. Systemic inflammatory syndromes contribute to unique elevated atherosclerotic risk and incident cardiovascular disease, according to Weber.

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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

APRIL 19, 2024

MR elastography (MRE) is an effective technique for noninvasive monitoring of liver stiffness -- a surrogate for fibrosis -- in children and young adults with autoimmune liver disease, researchers have reported. years) who underwent an abdominal 1.5-tesla tesla MRI that included liver MRE as well as a liver biopsy within six months.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A team led by Liu Junzhi, PhD, from the China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University in Changchun, China, found that the modality leads to upstaging at a higher rate than that of F-18 FDG PET/CT. “The The full study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that primarily involves synovial joints. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that primarily involves synovial joints. Some of the patients do not have good response to these drugs,” the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 16, 2024

SPECT/CT imaging can show over time how patients taking tafamidis for heart disease respond to the treatment, a group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reported. Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) is a life-threatening disease that occurs when amyloid fibrils accumulate in the heart. years between scans.

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