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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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In her presentation, Valeria Peña-Trujillo, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, discussed her team’s findings, showing that breast masses in this patient population are benign and most commonly present as fibroadenoma. For example, children may associate adult hospitals with serious illness, adding to their anxiety.

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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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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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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Frequent AI use is associated with an increased risk of radiologist burnout, particularly among those with high workloads and low AI acceptance, suggests a study published November 22 in JAMA Network Open. times that of radiologists, they wrote. Among 6,726 radiologists included, 35.3% were female and 64.7%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2025

A woman died in a hospital in Huddersfield, England, after a radiologist failed to report that her gastric band had "slipped," according to a January 16 BBC report. Eccleston issued a Prevent Future Deaths report to NHS England and the Royal College of Radiologists over the death.

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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

APRIL 16, 2024

ChatGPT-4 matched radiologists when tasked with detecting errors in imaging reports, with the study suggesting the technology may be useful for improving reporting accuracy, according to a study published April 16 in Radiology. ChatGPT-4 matched radiologists in detecting errors in radiology reports.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And it appears that radiologists are reading more cardiac CT exams, but not cardiac MRI studies, presenter Mustafa Al-Ogaili, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ, told session attendees. The team tracked volumes by provider type (cardiologists, radiologists, and "other") and practice setting (hospital and nonhospital).

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Ben White

MAY 9, 2023

It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: these are my opinions, formed from the combination of my biases, my experience as a radiologist since beginning residency 10 years ago, and my many conversations with radiologists across the country. Nationwide, the supply of radiologists is basically flat. Six weeks?!

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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

JUNE 4, 2023

Richard Heiden, MD, has a compromised immune system and had asked NYC Health and Hospitals to reassign him to teleradiology duties after the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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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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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While academic medical center radiology departments are expanding significantly and hospitals are adapting to health system consolidation trends, demand for innovative imaging informatics remains strong among operations and physician teams. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 31, 2025

The American Hospital Association announced its opposition March 27, contending docs will "inflate healthcare costs and drain essential resources."

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

An automated protocoling algorithm used with a hospital's electronic health record (EHR) software reduces radiologist CT exam workload, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has reported. The findings could make busy radiology departments more efficient, wrote a team led by Ryan Chung, MD.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

When radiologists interpretations are indeterminate, a commercially available deep learning algorithm could find clinically significant prostate cancer with improved specificity while maintaining sensitivity, suggested research published March 11 in Radiology. A radiologist also detected the lesion and assigned it PI-RADS 4 (arrow in A-C).

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Ultrasound use has shifted over the past decade, including whether radiologists, surgeons, or nonphysicians practitioners perform the exams, a study published on December 13 in the American Journal of Roentgenology found. The share of billed ultrasound services increased for radiologists from 31.6% in 2009 to 34.2% to 19.6%).

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

A team led by radiologists in Nairobi, Kenya, found metastases in supraclavicular (SC) lymph nodes in 8% of a large group of patients, and the group suggested adding consideration of the site during the initial diagnostic workup of patients. The study was published March 17 in EJNMMI Reports.

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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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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 11, 2024

A prominent radiologist was one of eight doctors who died August 9 in a plane crash in Brazil. “It Ferreira did his radiology residency at the Hospital do Servidor Público in São Paulo. Leonel Ferreira was a receptive person who was happy to discuss cases, a colleague said. All photos courtesy of CBR and Berit Press.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The research comes out of Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands on the feasibility of relying on multimodal generative AI in TB detection. respectively, where that of three radiologists' ranged between 91.9% They also tested autonomous reporting. to 94.7%, 89.4%

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 3, 2024

Impeded by a smaller number of radiology-applicable quality measures, in 2021 radiologists in radiology-only practices scored significantly lower on relevant Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) gauges compared with other specialties. of reported measures by radiologists in multispecialty practices were radiology measures.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 9, 2025

Todays radiologists face a similarly existential challenge, though its dimensions are not purely mechanical but deeply technological and economic. A looming crisis Data from IMV Medical Information Division and the American College of Radiology indicates that, in 2022, about 34,000 (range 30,000 to 37,000) radiologists in the U.S.

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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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Ben White

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The radiologist shortage is definitely here. What’s happening now varies and what will happen is anyone’s guess, but this anonymous op-ed “ Radiologists need to be realistic about the job market ” is absolutely worth reading. The group is unable to afford hiring radiologists in the current market.

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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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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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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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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In a study described as a “competition between radiologists,” participants tasked with identifying abnormal findings on chest x-rays performed better with AI assistance than without AI assistance – though not by much and not in all cases, according to a group in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Radiology is ground zero for many of these innovations, and increasingly radiologists are being asked to take the lead in helping the healthcare system make the most of these technological breakthroughs. Radiologist as a technology leader is, in many ways, a very familiar role. Morris Panner, President of Intelerad.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a new year begins, we asked radiologists to weigh in on what has impressed them most and what might be next for GPT. 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.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

The independent dispute resolution (IDR) process would be financially impractical for many out-of-network claims for radiologists, according to research published January 17 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. of batched out-of-network claims for radiologists, respectively. and 10.6%, respectively, for radiologists.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

While the pandemic affected medical operations across the country, the experts said that radiologists developed and honed their sense of resiliency as imaging was placed on the front lines. Imaging technologists meanwhile were reallocated across the hospital system to assist in various departments.

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