Hospital completes $12M expansion of its radiology department
Radiology Business
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Allegheny Valley Hospital is offering a new mobile MRI truck, among other upgrades, which will add 40 new appointment slots per week.
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AuntMinnie
JULY 9, 2024
X-ray and ultrasound machines were badly damaged in a rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital on July 8, according to radiologist Stanislav Rebenkov, MD. Rebenkov has been head of radiology at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital since 2020. Broken glass and damaged equipment are found throughout the hospital.
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REBEL EM
JANUARY 18, 2024
PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? Background: Sepsis remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91
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.
Radiology Business
AUGUST 5, 2024
Prior to adding the IR facility, Mercy said it believes potential patients were traveling outside the region to obtain IR services.
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.
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.
AuntMinnie
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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.
Radiology Business
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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.
Imaging Technology
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Imaging Technology
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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.
Health Imaging
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“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.”
Radiology Business
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South Carolina-based Prisma Health said it opened the facilities to better serve outpatients who require nonurgent imaging.
Ben White
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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.
Ben White
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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.
Radiology Business
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DxEx, as the agency calls it for short, ensures that imaging and other tests are ordered, interpreted, communicated and acted upon appropriately.
AuntMinnie
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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.
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.
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.
Ben White
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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.
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.”
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.
AuntMinnie
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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.
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
Radiology Business
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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.
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.
AuntMinnie
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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).
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.
AuntMinnie
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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.
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.
AuntMinnie
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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"?
Everything Rad
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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?
Imaging Technology
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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.
REBEL EM
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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?
Radiology Business
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WVU Medicine Thomas Hospital announced the new partnership on after ARI recently acquired its former partner, Kanawha Valley Radiologists, based in Charleston, W.V.
AuntMinnie
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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
Imaging Technology
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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.
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.
AuntMinnie
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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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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.
Ben White
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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.
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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