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Mass. radiology provider may be liable for 'unavailable' IR physician

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The Massachusetts Court of Appeals has ruled that a Massachusetts radiology services provider could be held liable for failing to provide a patient with access to an on-call interventional radiologist, according to a report published October 28 by Law.com.

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Qure.ai Announces Receipt of FDA Clearance for Chest X-ray Solution for Pneumothorax and Pleural Effusion, Elevating ICU and ER Care Pathways

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Qure’s qXR has now been cleared to triage pneumothorax (PTX) and pleural effusion (PE), which present severe challenges in emergency rooms and intensive care units (ICUs), according to the company statement released today. Speaking to physicians and hospital CEOs, we have heard the increasing need to reduce time to diagnosis."

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Rural Hospital Raises the Bar with Comprehensive State-of-the-art Imaging Systems

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That’s clearly the case at Massac Memorial Hospital , an award-winning critical access hospital in Metropolis, Ill., The hospital serves patients in Massac County and the surrounding areas. “Our In Massac’s previous X-ray room techs found it difficult to acquire a good T-spine views. with 25 beds.

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Bridging the Communication Gap Between the Emergency Department and Radiologist

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The common adage of a bustling and stressful emergency room is resoundingly accurate. Communication between medical providers, specifically emergency physicians and Radiologists , drive clinical decisions that facilitate the coordination of the patient journey from arrival to diagnostic imaging to eventual admission or discharge.

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AuntMinnie 2001: Frontline radiologists recall September 11

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Our top article from 2001 reported on the role radiologists played in responding to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and was published on October 31, 2001. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of their stories is that the PACS networks, disaster protocols, and emergency rooms were not severely strained, since most of the victims did not survive.

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AI assist for x-ray reads serves nonradiologists well in the ED

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Presenting the research on November 28 at RSNA 2023, Jan Rudolph, MD, from the department of radiology at University Hospital LMU Munich said nonradiologists can significantly benefit from AI assistance in emergency-related chest x-ray analysis. “If

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Qure.ai's AI-Driven Chest X-ray Solution Receives FDA Clearance for Enhanced Lung Nodule Detection

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Notably, this is the only FDA-cleared solution for detecting and localizing lung nodules utilizing computer vision to have Radiologists, Pulmonologists and ER physicians as intended users. The device's performance was assessed against the ground truth determined by five American board-certified Radiologists. Diagnostics 2022).

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