Radiology Business

JANUARY 5, 2025

Researchers recently surveyed over 200 physicians about their experiences working from home, sharing the findings in Academic Radiology.

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Ben White

JANUARY 7, 2025

The first pile-on lawsuit against Radiology Partners has arrived: UnitedHealth’s original 2023 lawsuit against RP for an alleged “pass-through billing scheme” wrapped up this fall, and Aetna just filed their own Christmas present on December 23. For those curious about how that United lawsuit played out, here are my three posts covering that story: United against Radiology Partners United is Still Fighting Radiology Partners Counting Chickens: RP loses its windfall award from U

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Student interest in radiologic technology education programs is on the rise, suggest survey findings published by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). The ASRTs findings, published in December 2024, reported that the number of enrolled students increased from 17,679 students in 2023 to an estimated 19,815 students in 2024. These students entered programs approved by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT).

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 8, 2025

The new appropriate use criteria define 17 specific clinical scenarios, guiding providers on situations when amyloid or tau imaging are and are not appropriate.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 7, 2025

The agency's B Reader Program trains and certifies physicians to classify chest radiographs of workers participating in federal health surveillance programs.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Rates of PET prostate cancer imaging increased rapidly after its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to a study published January 3 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. While rates rose from near zero in early 2021 to nearly 70% in high- and very-high-risk patients by August 2023, however, rates of positive findings were low among patients with intermediate-risk disease, noted lead author Sean Miller, MD, of the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Michig

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 8, 2025

Providers are more likely to trust AI when they understand how it arrives at its conclusions.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 6, 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 8, 2025

The appropriate use criteria (AUC) reflect updates to the 2011 AUC for amyloid PET and new criteria for tau PET in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

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Patient-centric scheduling can only be achieved through optimized radiology workflows, effective communications between staff and physicians, and, of course, through specialized schedulers. In this guide, we’ll take you through a step-by-step process to transform your radiology center into a high-performance hub of medical imaging.

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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. A team led by Naomi Noguchi, PhD, from the University of Sydney in Australia also found that DBT had a lower biopsy rate than mammography and could be more accurate in examining dense breasts.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 7, 2025

Elizabeth Smart recently underwent SPECT imaging to see how her traumatic experiences may have affected her brain on a physiological level.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 7, 2025

This would amount to between 400,000 and 500,000 unnecessary scans each month, the Verona, Wisconsin-based vendor said in recently published research.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 8, 2025

After propensity score matching in a study of over 3,000 women with a personal history of breast cancer, researchers found that surveillance breast MRI facilitated a 59 percent lower risk in advanced presentations of second breast cancers.

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About 40% of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetime, and patients are getting younger. At the same time, the cost of treatment continues to rise, with employers spending 8.5% more on cancer care for each employee than they did last year. The best thing employers can do for their employees and business tomorrow is to invest in cancer detection and care today.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 7, 2025

Negative prostate-specific antigen (PSMA) PET scans can be used to avoid unnecessary pelvic lymph node dissection in certain prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomies, according to a recent study. While pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) is the gold standard of nodal staging in men at intermediate risk, it carries its own risks and has no known benefit in this patient subgroup, noted a team of researchers from Hamburg, Germany.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 6, 2025

These findings are important from both environmental and operational standpoints, authors of a new Academic Radiology paper point out.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 7, 2025

Bethany Casagranda, DO, MBA, has served as chair of AHNs Imaging Institute since 2017, growing the networks radiologist roster from 28 to 124.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 4, 2025

In patients with high-risk, hormone sensitive prostate cancer who had no evidence of metastasis on conventional imaging, PSMA PET revealed polymetastatic disease in 24 percent of patients and M1 disease staging in 46 percent of patients.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and the Alzheimers Association have released new appropriate use criteria for brain PET imaging of amyloid and tau pathology related to cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease. The update is the first revision since the initial guidance for amyloid PET was introduced in 2013, noted the two organizations in a January 8 announcement.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 6, 2025

POCUS in early pregnancy helps clinicians more efficiently and accurately diagnose problems without compromising the quality of needed first trimester assessmentssaving time, money and stress for patients.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 8, 2025

Phoenix-based OnRad Inc. is acquiring competitor Direct Radiology from Royal Philips for an undisclosed sum, seeking to bolster recruitment and pursue operational efficiencies.

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vRad

JANUARY 7, 2025

Lets start with the straight answer youre looking for: At vRad, we have radiologists who make $450,000 a year, and high-volume readers who pull in well over $1,000,000 a year. Obviously, thats quite a range. Thats because the answer to this question depends on you and the way you want to practice. The real answer is, however much you want.

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Explore the latest insights from the American Cancer Society's “Cancer Statistics 2024” report, which unveils multiple alarming trends in cancer data. Cancer is on the rise among young adults, and diagnoses for 6 of the 10 most common cancers are escalating. With over 2 million new cancer cases projected in the U.S. this year, employers face increased challenges when it comes to supporting employees.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2025

Orthopedic trauma cases can be challenging for radiology residents to interpret -- which may affect their readiness for independent call, according to a study published January 8 in Emergency Radiology. Radiology residents showed "significant difficulty in identifying orthopedic trauma cases, with errors primarily due to observational deficiencies," reported a team led by John Ramos Rivas, MD, of the University of Florida in Gainesville.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 5, 2025

A new AHRA report provides an in-depth overview of concerns related to remote operations, highlighting everything from safety issues to regulatory oversight.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

BCBS of Michigan has sought to push urologists away from aggressive treatment for low-risk cancer, offering a payment perk to shift their approach.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 9, 2025

In a study of over 463,000 women who had screening mammography exams, adjunctive AI led to a 17.6 percent higher detection rate for breast cancer and a three percent increase in positive predictive value for recalls.

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