Radiology Business

MARCH 3, 2025

Rosman, MD, MBA, deputy chief, radiology enterprise service, Mass General Brigham, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Swiss research team has developed and tested an AI model that automatically segments anatomic structures on MR images independent of sequence, according to a study published February 18 in Radiology. Images and caption courtesy of the RSNA. The team then assessed the model's performance using Dice scoring.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Allegheny Health Network's (AHN) Allegheny Valley Hospital (AVH) in Natrona Heights, PA has completed a $12 million expansion and renovation of its imaging and radiology department. A new mobile imaging pad outside the hospital also now supports rotating MRI and PET/CT capabilities.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) had little effect on reducing inappropriate imaging orders by doctors in university hospitals, according to a study published February 10 in JAMA. The primary outcome measure was the proportion of inappropriate imaging requests made per department before and after implementation.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 28, 2025

Excess imaging translates to "significant"carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to a study published March 28 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Overuse of imaging is a strain on our healthcare system and radiology workforce," said senior author Michael Atalay, MD, PhD, of Brown University in Providence, RI.

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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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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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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 14, 2025

Key trends include hospital consolidation of radiology services, the need for stronger cybersecurity, and innovative strategies to address staffing shortages. The hospital takeover in radiology The healthcare landscape is witnessing a notable shift as hospitals evaluate taking radiology services in-house.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Radiology staff at the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv are making steady progress with their plan to restore normal service after a devastating missile attack. On July 9, 2024, AuntMinnieEurope.com posted an article about the extensive damage caused to Ukraine's largest pediatric hospital.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

PET/CT scans with an experimental prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) imaging agent can identify supraclavicular nodal metastasis in newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients, researchers have reported. Image and caption available for republishing under Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0 DEED, Attribution 4.0

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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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Ben White

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

And we should admit, without hesitation, that there are also poorly-run unsavvy groups just like we’ve all experienced poorly run hospitals and other businesses. Increasing imaging volumes and increasing consolidation combined with increasing regulatory burdens and have resulted in overall fewer and overall larger groups.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Tellica Imaging recently rolled out its 10th location, with the latest in Spanish Fork, Utah, its seventh outpost in Intermountain's home state.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

There's plenty of research and technologies on display at RSNA 2024 when it comes to breast imaging. Just ask Amy Patel, MD, from Liberty Hospital in Missouri. Patel, who serves as medical director of the hospital's Breast Care Center, spoke with AuntMinnie.com about trends and technologies she has seen during her time in Chicago.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The use of AI in thoracic imaging has begun to demonstrate "cumulative evidence of effectiveness," but more testing and research are needed to determine its feasibility for this application, according to a commentary published February 25 in Radiology. van Beek, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. in an accompanying editorial.

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Radiology Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Tim Kearns, director of marketing and healthcare IT, Konica Minolta Imaging USA, explains the implications. Smaller health systems are increasingly moving into this realm.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 23, 2025

The new Department of Imaging Sciences will be spearheaded by Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, PhD, a physicist, biomedical engineer, neuroscience researcher and inventor.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2025

The study highlights how radiomics can help stratify risk in DCIS cases compared with clinical and qualitative imaging information alone, noted lead authors Kalina Slavkova, PhD, of Columbia University in New York City, and Ruya Kang, PhD, of Brown University in Providence, RI. Image courtesy of RSNA. A graphical abstract of the study.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Another way to reduce radiation to patients would be to scale back on adjacent x-ray imaging, says a group in Australia, which will present a study on Sunday suggesting that a vast majority of second scans of the upper and lower limbs have no new findings. Is adjacent x-ray imaging in the ER justified? Sunday, December 1 | 2:30 p.m.-2:40

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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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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Less than 1% of hospitalized cancer patients undergo percutaneous ablation to relieve pain associated with bone or soft tissue tumors, according to a study by researchers at Emory University. The image-guided procedure is done by interventional radiologists through a small hole the size of a pen tip. percentage points; p = 0.019).

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 10, 2025

This ranges from a high of 567 scans per physician in over 400 bed hospitals, to a low of 119 in under 200 bed hospitals. Follow IMV Medical Information on LinkedIn for more diagnostic imaging updates. Want to share your knowledge of medical imaging? Click here to sign up for the IMV Survey panel today.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 10, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new reimbursement plan July 10 for diagnostic PET scans that would provide separate payments for radiopharmaceuticals, as well as an extra payment for hospitals when they use domestically produced technetium-99m (Tc-99m).

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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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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

His lab team is currently focused on "implementing advanced techniques, such as parallel transmit, to achieve more consistent image quality and fully harness the power of 7T for every patient," Middlebrooks said. Avoiding certain sequences due to difficulties at 7T is not always practical.

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Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

hospital and imaging center decision-makers highlights the significant challenges healthcare providers face with legacy image exchange systems. A recent 2024 PocketHealth survey of 202 U.S.

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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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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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Health Imaging

MARCH 18, 2024

A collection of medical images from hospitals in Ukraine showing radiology equipment in use and clinical images of wounded soldiers and civilians.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Outcomes over 10 years suggest that image-guided thermal ablation is a safe and effective option for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma, according to a study published November 7 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. The mean age of patients was 45.8 years old and 118 (65.9%) were women.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2025

Recruiting remains a key concern among both academic and hospital radiology practices, with 67% of radiologists reporting that their practices are understaffed, researchers have found. Both hospital (85%) and national (89%) practices were more likely than academic ones (77%) to offer malpractice insurance.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 18, 2023

Energy consumption reduction tactics could decrease greenhouse gas emissions owed to radiology while also saving departments tens of thousands of dollars every year.

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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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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The scanners could reconstruct images faster than we could report them. But the pressure kept building, and the number of CT and MRI scans grew by 20% annually in my hospital. The only way they could appease the gods of cross-sectional imaging was to avoid contact with other humans. But expectations have grown.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 1, 2024

Almost a third of imaging exam interpretations are performed by nonradiologists, according to a Harvey L. of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, but that the remaining 27.9% The team conducted a study that included data from 123 million 2022 Medicare Part B imaging claims. Of these, 88.5

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 3, 2024

celebrates this year's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, radiology experts and advocates reflect on the big year that breast imaging has had. The mandate requires imaging facilities to disclose breast density information to patients receiving breast cancer screening. As the U.S. From the U.S.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 18, 2024

The “nation's largest independent provider of specialized breast health services” is teaming with Northwest Healthcare to expand imaging offerings in the Tucson region.

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