Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Adventist Health finalized its purchase two Central California Coast hospitals in March but is still struggling to offer radiology services.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The ruling "gives insurers significant leverage to demand confiscatory discounts from out-of-network providers," the AMA, American Hospital Association and others contend.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Docs at the AMA’s Interim Meeting in Orlando, Florida, have voted to support greater oversight of nonprofit hospitals and to standardize charity care policies.

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Imaging Technology

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. Because there is no “typical” hospital or laboratory and many variables exist (e.g.,

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ScienceDaily

JULY 22, 2024

Large language models may pass medical exams with flying colors but using them for diagnoses would currently be grossly negligent. Medical chatbots make hasty diagnoses, do not adhere to guidelines, and would put patients' lives at risk.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Washington becomes one of a select few where attorneys can also go after a hospital that hired outside physicians, joining South Carolina, Michigan, Maryland and Iowa

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“Positioned as an extension of traditional examination methods, particularly appealing to the upcoming generation of clinicians, it holds promise in potentially replacing the stethoscope in various medical assessments and procedures.”

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revealed the news under the 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule released on Aug.

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Radiology Business

JULY 10, 2024

The American College of Radiology has pushed for this decision since 2008, when trial results showed CTC or "virtual colonoscopy" to be a solid alternative to the traditional screening approach, which requires anesthesia.

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Radiology Business

JULY 11, 2024

Allegheny Health Network in Pennsylvania has seen an uptick in women seeking services from the AHN Jefferson Breast Center, necessitating the capital project.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The University of Toronto has standardized processes related to multidisciplinary conferences, hoping to provide relief for participating abdominal specialists.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

ImageCare Radiology announced the decision Nov. 21, with the practice pulling out of Atlantic Health's Hackettstown and Newton Medical Centers effective the same day.

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

South Carolina-based Prisma Health said it opened the facilities to better serve outpatients who require nonurgent imaging.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

About 5% of U.S. healthcare organizations have now implemented such competency testing, with about 13% of physicians deemed unfit for the job.

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 15, 2024

The findings are based on a survey of over 1,000 radiologists, technologists and other care providers, detailed Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.

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Ben White

OCTOBER 9, 2024

…Hospitals quite literally cannot operate beyond a few hours without diagnostic radiology. Hospital systems simply have no leverage against their radiologists except fear of the unknown. Negotiations with the hospital have yielded minimal results. We are the bottleneck for all inpatient care. What is a group to do?

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

OIA recently collaborated with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist to open a new outpatient location in Greensboro, North Carolina’s 3rd most populous city.

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Hospital Imaging 105

Radiology Business

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That's according to an essay published by an anonymous physician on KevinMD.com, which generated recent buzz on social media.

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Hospital Radiologist 111

Radiology Business

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The challenges occurred after Crozer Health's previous longtime radiology services provider, Southeast Radiology Ltd., shuttered in June.

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Hospital Radiology 88

Radiology Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The University of Rochester Medical Center operates two major imaging sites that handle most outpatient CT requests, completing an average of nearly 3,300 exams each month.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

DxEx, as the agency calls it for short, ensures that imaging and other tests are ordered, interpreted, communicated and acted upon appropriately.

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Health Imaging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Work in our hospital, and especially in our radiology department, has been exceptionally challenging throughout this crisis -- and it continues to be so," Eva Llopis, MD, head of radiology at Hospital Universitari de la Ribera in Alzira, the capital of the comarca of Ribera Alta in the province of Valencia, told AuntMinnie.com on November 5.

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Ben White

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the options for “work setting” they could have picked: Academic institution Independent private practice National radiology practice Health system or hospital Hospital-affiliated group practice Non-hospital group practice Multi-specialty entity Outpatient clinic Military Treatment Facility U.S.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

MAY 1, 2024

In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital, created a connectivity map of a brain network that they propose is critical to human consciousness.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

A team led by Mark Slidell, MD, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, found that CT remains the most used imaging method for diagnostic pediatric appendicitis in hospitals that don’t participate in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Pediatrics (NSQIP-P). hospitals over time. NSQIP-P hospital 71.7%

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Ben White

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The researchers reported a nearly 38 percent increase in central line infections, a dangerous kind of infection that medical authorities say should never happen, and a 27 percent increase in falls by patients while staying in the hospital. “We I will say we were surprised at how strong it was.”

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 8, 2024

reported brain imaging findings on MRI in COVID-19 survivors who had been hospitalized. months from hospital admission," the group wrote. Their findings were published October 7 in the journal Brain. A team led by Catarina Rua, MD, of the University of Cambridge in the U.K.,

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Tampa-area hospitals are facing the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, with some imaging services being temporarily suspended as healthcare systems reallocate resources toward emergency care. The hospital performs more than 400,000 imaging exams per year, according to Tampa General’s website. in late September.

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Ben White

DECEMBER 23, 2024

An arduous regulatory climate, challenging payor relationships, tumor-like health network/hospital/system growth, and the increasing volume and intensity of after-hours work all favor a smaller number of larger groups. Consolidation in action. Scale to combat scale.

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

PMID: 38019968 Clinical Question: In patients with suspected acute poisoning and GCS <9, is a conservative airway strategy of withholding intubation associated with a reduction in death, ICU LOS, and hospital LOS compared with routine practice of intubation?

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Radiology Business

APRIL 24, 2024

Others including the AMGA and the American Hospital Association have voiced their opposition to the rule, which is expected to be challenged in court.

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Radiologist Hospital 126

UCSF Biomedical Imaging

JULY 25, 2024

At UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in Mission Bay and Oakland, radiologists are now offering a new, more comfortable, and radiation-free imaging method called pediatric Contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography (ceVUS).

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Radiology Business

JULY 1, 2024

Radiologists interpret almost all imaging studies generated in hospital settings for indications other than cardiac concerns.

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Radiology Business

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Experts hope their findings will encourage IR practices and hospital departments to pursue greater adoption of genicular artery embolization.

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Radiologist Hospital 123

Medical Xpress: Radiology

MARCH 11, 2024

Jointly developed by investigators of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology's (VHIO) Radiomics Group and the Bellvitge University Hospital's Neuroradiology Unit, the Diagnosis in Susceptibility Contrast Enhancing Regions for Neuroncology (DISCERN) is an open-access deep learning tool based on the training of patterns using artificial intelligence (..)

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Ben White

MAY 9, 2023

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). Some hospitals have been hard-pressed to find coverage. The training pipeline is essentially fixed in size and long in duration. But in the meantime, there are far too few.

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