Ben White

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

They may not know how to run a radiology business, but they inarguably understand how to play the finance game: Radiology Partners completed its “ comprehensive set of financing transactions to strengthen its financial position.” In doing so, they ended up raising $720 million in preferred equity. They successfully used the promise of a substantial equity raise to get their debtholders to refinance, then used the promise of successful refinancing to further raise an additional ~$400 million.

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Background: Use of vasopressors is a common practice to support hemodynamics and optimization of tissue perfusion in patients presenting with shock. Historically the administration of vasopressors was restricted to central venous catheters (CVC) due to concerns for local tissue injury resulting from vasoconstriction if extravasation occurred from a peripheral IV.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Mortgage discrimination is tied to breast cancer outcomes, a study published February 20 in JAMA Network Open found. Researchers led by Jasmine Miller-Kleinhenz, PhD, from Emory University in Atlanta found that living in a historically redlined area is tied to increased odds of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer in non-Hispanic Black women and increased odds of late-stage diagnosis in non-Hispanic white women.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

"I am hoping that primary care physicians see that risks of screening are manageable, and the benefits are tremendous," said Dartmouth's Debra L. Monticciolo, MD.

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Ben White

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I’m running low on my stash of Cometeer coffee. If you’re interested, you can get $20 off your first order and help subsidize my terrible caffeine addiction. (Full review here. Not an ad, but I do like cheaper coffee.) The post Coffee Me, Please first appeared on Ben White.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Annual breast cancer screening starting at age 40 yields the most mortality reduction, according to research published February 20 in Radiology. A team led by Debra Monticciolo, MD, from Dartmouth in New Hampshire found that starting annual screening at this age and continuing to at least age 79 leads to the highest reduction in mortality with minimal risks.

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Health Imaging

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A team from Ireland identified disruptions to the integrity of the blood vessels in the brains of patients experiencing brain fog due to the disease.

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Everything Rad

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes read Four considerations to gain maximum benefits to workflow and patient outcomes By Tasos Strouzos, President and General Manager, Consumables Business Unit, Carestream Health. The benefits of moving from analog imaging to full digital X-ray are well known. Digital Radiography (DR) can help speed your imaging workflow, ease the workload on your staff, and reduce the dose to support a higher standard of care.

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Diagnostic Imaging

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The use of computed tomography (CT) for cases of minor head trauma was associated with a 29 percent higher incidence of hematologic malignant neoplasms in comparison to those with no CT, according to a new study involving over 2,400,000 pediatric patients.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Deep learning-accelerated brain MRI improves the detection of acute ischemic lesions compared to conventional MRI because it offers better image quality and significantly decreased exam times, researchers have reported in a study published in Radiology. The technique could translate to better patient care in that it could improve imaging workflow and cut healthcare costs, wrote a team led by Sebastian Altmann, MD, of University Medical Center Mainz in Germany.

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

milla1cf Wed, 02/21/2024 - 19:13 February 21, 2024 — Hyperfine, Inc. , a groundbreaking health technology company that has redefined brain imaging with the world’s first FDA -cleared portable magnetic resonance (MR) brain imaging system–the Swoop system, and Athletic Heart Cardiac and Metabolic Testing, LLC (Athletic Heart), a mobile medical diagnostic company providing streamlined, comprehensive testing for collegiate, professional, and former professional athletes, today announced a coll

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Imperial researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to extract information about the chemical makeup of lung tumors from medical scans. For the first time, they have demonstrated how combining medical imaging with AI can be used to provide a 'virtual biopsy' for cancer patients.

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Diagnostic Imaging

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In comparison to biennial mammography screening between the ages of 50 to 74, researchers found that annual screening between 40 and 79 years of age resulted in a greater than 16 percent higher reduction in breast cancer mortality.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A deep-learning method could improve clinical strategies for addressing ultrasound BI-RADS 4A lesions, a study published February 20 in Clinical Breast Cancer found. Researchers led by Mei Yi from Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, found that their deep learning model achieved higher sensitivities than those of clinical experience alone and that the performance of radiologists improved with deep-learning assistance.

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 02/23/2024 - 10:12 February 23, 2024 — ScreenPoint Medical is showcasing its industry leading Transpara Breast AI at the 2024 European Congress of Radiology ( ECR ) meeting, February 28-March 3, 2024 (Booth #AI-31 in Expo Hall X1). Transpara provides radiologists with a 'second pair' of eyes to help detect cancers earlier and reduce recall rates.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Cancers of the prostate (17%), female breast (13%), and lung (12%) accounted for the largest share of the tally, experts noted.

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Health IT Analytics

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mount Sinai researchers revealed that the large language model GPT-4 can match, and even outperform, human specialists in managing glaucoma or retina disease.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Screening for osteoporosis using dedicated bone scans among total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients remains alarmingly low, according to research presented February 14 at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting in San Francisco. Researchers at George Washington University in Washington, DC, identified 380,226 patients in a U.S. claims database who underwent THA.

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 02/23/2024 - 10:34 February 23, 2024 — Can dual-energy tomosynthesis be performed portably? This is one of the topics to be discussed by KA Imaging’s Team Lead for Spectral Imaging, Steven Tilley , during a presentation at the upcoming European Congress of Radiology ( ECR ). The study titled “Dual-Energy Tomosynthesis of the Chest using a Triple Layer X-ray Detector”, which yielded promising results, will be part of a Research Presentation Session.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“Protocol requests” are the most common type of disturbance, University of Iowa researchers detailed in JACR.

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Health IT Analytics

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Hartford HealthCare’s Center for AI Innovation will support the research and development of artificial intelligence technologies to improve patient care.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

An AI algorithm designed for brain PET imaging found a glioblastoma in a patient that had gone undetected by physicians, according to a case reported February 15 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. “This incidental finding highlights the potential of AI-based decision support for patient management in terms of diagnostic and treatment planning based on amino acid PET,” noted lead author Philipp Lohmann, PhD, of Aachen University in Aachen, and colleagues.

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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 02/22/2024 - 13:42 February 22, 2024 — aycan , a recognized leader in medical imaging, announced that Enspectra Health used aycan’s PACS, viewers, and professional services team to ready DICOM data generated from their new VIOTM System for their pivotal clinical trial. The first-of-its-kind technology that visualizes skin cellular structures in real-time, the VIO System received FDA clearance recently, solidifying aycan’s abilities and expansion into the clinical trial market.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“Growing into this market allows us to move toward a national presence and we are excited for more opportunities like this in the future," said COO David Grau.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Locating specific, localized distributions of fat and muscle in body composition is intuitively and imprecisely implied by body shape. Now, a team of researchers has discovered that the unique combination of modern deep learning models, specified equipment and three-dimensional body scans has given a quantitative validation on medical imaging that was previously only qualitative.

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