AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2024

Powering down idle interventional radiology (IR) imaging systems can substantially decrease carbon emissions and electricity costs, according to a group of researchers at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. Medical imaging constitutes the largest consumer within the sector, they noted.

Fluoroscopy 289

Fluoroscopy Interventional Radiology Hospital Radiology 289

AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2024

Radiology administrators are confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) new report for the second quarter of 2024.

Radiology 288

Radiology Medicare Interventional Radiology Hospital 288

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Some ICU patients remain critically ill due to hospital-acquired infections despite a reversal of their original diagnosis, and outcomes for these patients are poor, with an estimated death rate of 25% due to organ failure, the authors explained.

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X-ray Diagnostic Diagnose Imaging 307

AuntMinnie

JULY 18, 2024

Radiology administrators remain positive that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) report for the third quarter of 2024.

Radiology 284

Radiology Interventional Radiology Medicare Diagnostic 284

AuntMinnie

JUNE 14, 2024

found that cirrhosis patients admitted over the weekend for TIPS procedures exhibited higher incidences of mortality, hepatic encephalopathy, acute kidney injury, and transfers to alternate hospital facilities. They also experienced longer times from admission to surgery, extended hospital stays, and higher overall hospital costs.

Hospital 264

Hospital Interventional Radiology Disease Diagnostic 264

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. mSv for interventional radiology (24 procedure types) and 0.001 to 0.44

Fluoroscopy 273

Fluoroscopy Interventional Radiology X-ray Imaging Modalities 273

Imaging Technology

MARCH 25, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 03/25/2024 - 06:00 March 25, 2024 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) presented its highest honor, the SIR Gold Medal , to Fred T. These awards acknowledge distinguished and extraordinary service to SIR or to the specialty of interventional radiology. MD ; Albert A. Nemcek, Jr.,

Interventional Radiology 104

Interventional Radiology Radiology Radiology Coding Medical 104

Imaging Technology

MARCH 26, 2024

Sabri, MD, FSIR , MedStar Georgetown University Hospital ; and Immediate Past-president Alda L. Lookstein, MD, FSIR , Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; newly appointed Secretary Saher S. Tam, MD, MBA, FSIR , The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston.

Interventional Radiology 116

Interventional Radiology Radiology Education Healthcare 116

Imaging Technology

MARCH 25, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 03/25/2024 - 07:00 March 25, 2024 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation today presented the Leader in Innovation Award to Suresh Vedantham , MD, FSIR , during SIR’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Salt Lake City. He is the current president of the Southeastern Angiographic Society (SEAS).

Interventional Radiology 111

Interventional Radiology Radiology Medical Clinic 111

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Image from Molly Charney, MD, of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, et al. 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.

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine 360

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine X-ray MRI Hospital 360

AuntMinnie

JULY 4, 2024

When it comes to hospitals' focus on specific clinical programs, 61% of respondents indicated that their hospital has a vascular surgery program, 54% have a cardiac surgery program, and 31% have a dedicated structural heart disease program -- all of which use fixed C-arm devices.

Hospital 264

Hospital Patient Care Interventional Radiology Disease 264

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2024

Diagnostic errors, including those from radiology among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), are common, according to a study published January 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine. years in 29 hospitals. The exam revealed active extravasation, necessitating interventional radiology care.

Diagnostic 278

Diagnostic Hospital Interventional Radiology Diagnose 278

AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

The midtown center has been in operation since the 1950s and currently operates 17 outpatient imaging centers across the greater Austin metropolitan area, serving 24 area hospitals. Columbus Radiology, like many other imaging centers, is contracted to serve local hospitals, in this case throughout Ohio. "We

Nuclear Medicine 264

Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmaceuticals Radiation Radiation Oncology 264

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.,

Hospital 116

Hospital Magnetic Resonance Imaging Radiopharmaceuticals Disease 116

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?

Radiologist 208

Radiologist Inpatient Hospital Interventional Radiology 208

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2025

Machine learning (ML) can help clinicians predict immunotherapy response in patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to a study published January 16 in Diagnostic Interventional Radiology.

Interventional Radiology 222

Interventional Radiology Clinic Diagnostic Hospital 222

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has contributed chapters to textbooks such as First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 and Core Radiology: A Visual Approach to Diagnostic Imaging and is an editor at Radiopaedia.org. Dmitry Beyder.

Nuclear Medicine 358

Nuclear Medicine Education Radiology Technologist Radiation Science 358

Imaging Technology

JUNE 21, 2024

a leading clinical augmented reality med-tech company, announced the successful first installation and clinical cases using the OmnifyXR Interventional Suite [1] at North Star Vascular and Interventional in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since there is no “typical” hospital, and many variables exist — e.g., hospital size, case mix, etc.

Interventional Radiology 105

Interventional Radiology Clinic Healthcare Healthcare 105

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Thiel and colleagues performed an LCA in April 2023 of the diagnostic radiology practice of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Such an assessment should reveal which opportunities are the most impactful and also which are the most realistic to achieve for a given set of circumstances," Thrall wrote.

Radiology 247

Radiology Nuclear Medicine Fluoroscopy X-ray 247

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Radiology administrators are confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center through the remainder of this year and beyond, according to MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) report for the fourth quarter of 2023.

Radiology 173

Radiology Medicare Interventional Radiology Imaging 173

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Interventional radiology (IR) performed significantly more AT and VT procedures across all payers from 2017 to 2021 (IR: 46.7%; all cardiology: 23.1%; all surgery: 4.2%; vascular surgery: 25.9%). fold vs. 1.8-fold). AT was more often billed through commercial insurers (62.1%) than Medicare (37.9%), with the opposite true of VT (53.2%

Minimally Invasive Procedure 264

Minimally Invasive Procedure Medicare X-ray Insurance 264

Imaging Technology

APRIL 16, 2024

milla1cf Tue, 04/16/2024 - 11:56 April 16, 2024 — The Society of Interventional Radiology ( SIR ) has published a new position statement outlining best practice of image-guided endovascular interventions when treating children in emergency situations. Interventional radiology is an integral part of the trauma care team.

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Interventional Radiology Hospital Radiology Radiologist 110

AuntMinnie

JULY 26, 2024

The published CMS estimates indicate that most of radiology will be minimally impacted (0%) by the PFS rule, but interventional radiology would see a 2% decrease. Radiology -3.8% -1.8% -2.8% However, those calculations do not take into account the Congressional adjustment to the 2024 fee schedule.

Medicare 264

Medicare Radiology Interventional Radiology Nuclear Medicine 264

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Radiology administrators have very high confidence that imaging will grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) report for the fourth quarter of 2024. regions expressed high confidence in growth in diagnostic/interventional radiology, the group found.

Interventional Radiology 147

Interventional Radiology Medicare Imaging Diagnostic 147

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

CRA is the state’s largest private radiology practice and is based in Myrtle Beach. It serves five health systems in South Carolina and provides subspecialized diagnostic and interventional radiology services for its five partner hospitals and health systems.

Radiology 130

Radiology Interventional Radiology Hospital Radiologist 130

Aidoc

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The 2024 CIRSE conference in Lisbon this month brought together the interventional radiology (IR) community from across Europe. While diagnostic radiology has already made great strides with AI adoption across Europe, its application in interventional radiology is still emerging. link] [link] Burch et al.

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Interventional Radiology Radiology Education Healthcare 52

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

Radiology resident Kaustav Bera, MD, is a third-year resident at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Kaustav Bera, MD, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Dania Daye, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Radiologist Radiology Hospital IT 321

JVIR

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Vertebral augmentation is increasingly recognized as a valuable procedure for treating acute vertebral compression fractures (VCFs), with the latest guidelines from interventional radiology, orthopedic surgery, and neurosurgery endorsing its use in well-selected patients.

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Interventional Radiology Hospital Radiology IT 40

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2025

Baidus AI chatbot Ernie Bot outperformed OpenAIs ChatGPT-4 on interventional radiology questions in Chinese, while ChatGPT was superior when questions were in English, according to a recent study. The study was published January 23 in Digital Health.

Interventional Radiology 130

Interventional Radiology Education Radiology Hospital 130

Aidoc

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

At Aidoc, Ive had the privilege of speaking with radiologists, hospital executives and clinical leaders who are actively shaping the future of AI in healthcare. Its transforming clinical workflows, patient care and hospital operations. Their insights offer a clear picture: AI isnt just a buzzword. Or do you want to go to one without?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Healthcare Hospital Patient Care 52

AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Ultrasound-guided cryoablation can be considered for breast cancer patients who are poor surgical candidates or who refuse surgery, suggest findings published February 3 in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Interventional Radiology 149

Interventional Radiology Ultrasound Hospital Disease 149

AuntMinnie

JULY 24, 2024

After analyzing the Open Payments database, a group of researchers led by Chris Lee of Yale University found that 3% of interventional radiologists received two-thirds of the total sum of industry payments over the five-year period.

Radiologist 113

Radiologist Interventional Radiology Hospital Medical Device 113

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) final rules. Interventional radiology will have a 2% decrease in reimbursement, however, according to an analysis by the American College of Radiology (ACR).

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Radiation Oncology Nuclear Medicine Medicare Imaging 200

JVIR

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Interventional radiology (IR) procedures are increasingly being used as less invasive alternatives to traditional surgeries, particularly for conditions such as liver cancer, uterine fibroids, and peripheral artery disease.

Interventional Radiology 40

Interventional Radiology Radiology Healthcare Healthcare 40

JVIR

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Within the past decade, Medicare reimbursements for interventional radiology (IR) procedures have been declining. In order to offset expenses, hospitals may increase charges. This study aimed to characterize the utilization and billing trends in IR.

Interventional Radiology 40

Interventional Radiology Medicare Radiology Hospital 40

Vesta Teleradiology

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Board certification or eligibility from the American Board of Radiology (ABR) or equivalent. Subspecialty certifications in areas such as interventional radiology, mammography, or neuroradiology can enhance your job prospects. What are the trends in the radiology job market? Teleradiology: Offering remote flexibility.

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Radiologist Private Practice Teleradiology Interventional Radiology 52

JVIR

JUNE 12, 2023

SIR guidelines recommend various antibiotic regimens for patients undergoing interventional radiological procedures. Antibiotics have a wide spectrum of affective and cognitive toxicities, the most severe of which can lead to hospitalization or suicide. Fluoroquinolones have the highest incidence of these toxicities.

Interventional Radiology 40

Interventional Radiology Radiology Hospital 40