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The Radiologist Shortage is Here

Ben White

If the shortage gets worse, then turnaround times will continue to lengthen (and patients suffer) and hospitals will struggle to get coverage (and patients suffer). The invention of PACS was a singular event that changed the field of radiology. Some hospitals have been hard-pressed to find coverage.

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Responding to a Ransomware Attack in Radiology

Everything Rad

Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. Imagine that your radiology department has no access to your PACS, your RIS, or even email. Our radiology department was one of the fortunate ones, we were without PACS “only” six days. No PACS/RIS.

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The PACSman Pontificates: Dog tired after HIMSS 2024

AuntMinnie

That pretty much summarizes how I felt after a full day walking the exhibit hall trying to assess the PACS and AI market at what is by all accounts an IT show. That said, each year it seems that fewer and fewer PACS vendors choose to display at HIMSS. “This is the story of two men who run. not to run.

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How I Use the Contour Shuttle for Radiology

Ben White

This discussion applies broadly, but we’ll be doing so through the example of my current left-hand device: The Contour Shuttle Pro V2 , a weird little ambidextrous off-hand device mostly used by video editors: The principles of optimizing your radiology workflow and customizing tools for manipulating PACS are nonspecific.

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How can Enterprise Imaging empower radiology in the modern health network?

AuntMinnie

While academic medical center radiology departments are expanding significantly and hospitals are adapting to health system consolidation trends, demand for innovative imaging informatics remains strong among operations and physician teams. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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CHRISTUS Health Hits Texas Roads

Imaging Technology

Luckily, when they happen in East Texas, fast access to medical care is possible at many sporting events thanks to CHRISTUS Health ’s Mobile Athletic Training Room (MATR) — parked just steps away from the playing field. The MATRs are operated by the athletic trainers at CHRISTUS Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute.

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Meet the Minnies 2024 semifinal candidates

AuntMinnie

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.