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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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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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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Imaging Technology

JULY 12, 2024

For commercial providers and hospital pathology departments alike, it offers a route to meet growing demand. mtaschetta-millane Fri, 07/12/2024 - 11:00 July 12, 2024 — Diagnosing cancer and providing the personalized therapy it often requires, is a collaborative effort more than in any other area of medicine.

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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 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

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). You don’t have to agree with me. Not Enough and No Help Coming For today’s needs and today’s technology, we have simply produced far too few radiologists.

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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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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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Ben White

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It was inevitable. (To To wit, Envision emerged from bankruptcy in the hands of its creditors, but it didn’t go anywhere.) I reached out to RP and Melinda Collins, AVP of Marketing and Communications, on Twitter/X without a response. If you’re at RP and want to weigh in on this purported practice, please reach out.

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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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MRI Network

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Hospital staffing challenges are robust already, and a further employee exodus could be detrimental. What are the most significant reasons for medical providers leaving major hospital chains? Impacts on Major Hospital Chains The direct impact of a loss of qualified medical providers is easy to see.

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Ben White

JANUARY 26, 2024

Last week, Radiology Partners released an announcement that it was “commencing a comprehensive set of financing transactions to strengthen its financial position.” ” Setting the Stage Going into 2024, RP was already cashflow negative (i.e. losing money) to say nothing of the massive debt payments due this year and next.

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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 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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AuntMinnie

JUNE 5, 2024

Gilk described his efforts to get a copy of the report about the Kaiser accident from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the state's body for licensing hospitals and healthcare providers. It soon became clear that the CDPH may not have even been aware of the incident -- likely indicating that the hospital did not report it.

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MRI Public Health Medicare Hospital 136

Imaging Technology

MARCH 8, 2024

Over 500 hospitals and imaging centers are using DeepTek AI solutions, impacting the lives of 100,000 people monthly. In Singapore, DeepTek's US FDA cleared platform, Augmento, has been deployed as the National Radiology AI platform, boosting productivity and quality of care across all public hospitals. DeepTek.ai

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Radiology Business

MARCH 21, 2024

Oulu University Hospital believes AI will allow it to deliver the same level of service with one fewer scanner, enabling annual savings of over $436,000.

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MRI Hospital IT 122

Radiology Business

APRIL 4, 2024

Hospital group Intermountain hoped to sell Saltzer Health but instead opted to shutter the physician group while retaining its imaging center in Meridian, Idaho.

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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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Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmaceuticals Imaging Medicare 122

Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This study, conducted at Capio S:t Göran Hospital in Sweden, reinforces the real-world impact of Lunit INSIGHT MMG, which has successfully replaced one of the two human readers in the hospital’s double-reading breast cancer screening protocol. tim.hodson Mon, 12/02/2024 - 11:22 Dec. For patients, it means faster and more accurate care.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 17, 2024

AuntMinnie.com caught up with its president, cardiologist Edward Nicol, MD, of Royal Brompton and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals, both in London, U.K., The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) will be holding its annual meeting July 18-21 in Washington, DC. to get a preview.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Across its customer base of physician groups, health systems and hospitals, Nym has processed over 6 million charts annually.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

But the pressure kept building, and the number of CT and MRI scans grew by 20% annually in my hospital. Most radiologists have heard of Moore’s Law. It was named after Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. In 1965, he observed that the number of components on a microchip had been doubling every year. In 1975, he revised this to every two years.

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Everything Rad

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Reading Time: 10 minutes read By Henry Williams, Carestream Area Vice President, Sales Western Nowadays, with hospital budgetary restrictions at the forefront of the purchasing decision making process, it seems like the X-Ray market, like everything else, is not immune to the current state of the economy. But is that really the case?

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AuntMinnie

MAY 4, 2024

But its continued integration into the healthcare continuum will not be without its challenges, according to Charlene Liew, MD, director of cardiothoracic imaging at Changi General Hospital in Singapore. SINGAPORE - Radiology AI technology is here -- and more is coming. What are the "four horsemen of the radiology AI apocalypse"?

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 23, 2024

Designed for seamless integration, the trailer allows hospitals and medical facilities to expand their cardiac care imaging with minimal financial and operational risk. Positioned as a low-risk, high-value option, the Mobile Cardiac PET/CT Trailer is aimed at enhancing cardiac programs across various medical facilities and practices.

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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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Hospital Clinic Medical IT 141

Radiology Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

WVU Medicine Thomas Hospital announced the new partnership on after ARI recently acquired its former partner, Kanawha Valley Radiologists, based in Charleston, W.V.

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Radiologist Hospital Imaging IT 105

AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2024

decrease in hospital-based studies and a 2.5% decrease in total procedures each year, with hospital-based procedures declining by 5.5% and non-hospital procedures increasing by 1.2%. million were performed in hospital sites and 4.1 Total nuclear medicine patient study volumes decreased by 5.7% Of these, 5.8

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Nuclear Medicine Hospital Radiopharmaceuticals Radiologist 111

Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

tim.hodson Thu, 11/14/2024 - 10:12 Nov. 13, 2024 – Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc.has launched Exa Enterprise, an enterprise imaging solution with its integrated PACS/RIS core powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Built on the Exa Platform, Exa Enterprise is built for speed, high-volume imaging and scalability.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 16, 2024

New findings portray both treatment options in a similar light when it comes to overall survival rates, though one creates significantly more burden for both patients and hospital resources.

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Ben White

MARCH 20, 2023

Do you hear about the patients who recover uneventfully in the hospital? The late Hans Rosling gave an amazingly popular TED talk back in 2006 (and many other popular talks since). You may have seen it. It’s the one showing recent human progress by following counties over time as a series of bubbles. Not really. No, they do not.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 21, 2024

Three people sustained injuries following an air explosion in the radiology unit of Polokwane Provincial Hospital August 20 in Limpopo, South Africa, according to local news outlet Sunday World. The incident also left parts of the radiology wing at the hospital damaged.

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MRI Hospital Radiology IT 98

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 4, 2024

It also found that white children and children living in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods are more likely to visit hospitals with high concurrent imaging use. These findings indicate that hospital experience in ultrasound and patient socioeconomic factors are correlated to overimaging,” Scaife and colleagues wrote. respectively.

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Ben White

APRIL 30, 2024

Hospital discharge decisions were supposed to take four and a half minutes. […] As ProPublica and The Capitol Forum reported last year, Cigna built a computer program that allowed its medical directors to deny certain claims in bulk. .” […] The early 2022 dashboards listed a handle time of four minutes for a prior authorization.

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Ben White

AUGUST 16, 2024

It’s the BATNA that every hospital and corporate suit knows you have. The ability to join a thriving independent practice where doctors get paid for the full amount of their professional work and have the autonomy to choose how to do it is what forces employers to compete. It’s the anchor. It’s what keeps them honest.

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