Radiology Business

MARCH 18, 2024

Attorneys allege Eastern Radiologists failed to implement the proper protections that would have kept hackers from capturing nearly 890,000 patients’ data.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 29, 2024

Proponents of AI in radiology highlight the technology’s potential in assistant radiologists with image interpretation as well as improving patient care. Biased data results in biased AI models,” Yahyavi said. The reason behind that mostly is because these algorithms are trained on unbalanced data sets.”

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Personal health information (PHI) -- images included -- can be easily accessed on the internet in PowerPoint files, according to a study published October 9 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. Work remains to continue to educate users on how to properly protect patient information in PowerPoint files." contained full PHI.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 23, 2024

Attrition doesn’t appear to be a significant contributing factor in the shortage of radiologists in the U.S., After analyzing Medicare billing data from 2019 to 2024, researchers from NYU Langone Health in New York City found that radiologists have a lower national attrition rate than other healthcare providers. “The Radiologists: 13.2%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

Throughout 2023, AuntMinnie.com has kept you informed about how GPT has been incorporated into various types of radiology department activities for research. As a new year begins, we asked radiologists to weigh in on what has impressed them most and what might be next for GPT. There are obviously concerns with privacy.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“Initiatives by radiology departments to increase the availability and utilization of visas for IMG faculty applicants, to the extent permitted by institutional and state policies, could help expand the nation’s radiologist supply and thereby address the developing U.S. IMGs currently comprise 11% of all U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 17, 2024

More than one-third of radiologists around the world experience burnout, according to an analysis published July 17 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The 2023 Medscape Physician Burnout and Depression Report indicated that radiologists have a high burnout prevalence of 54%. 39% vs. 35%. The full analysis can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For another year running, radiologic technologists (RTs) and radiologists enjoyed higher salaries in the past year, according to AuntMinnie.com 's 2024 SalaryScan survey. Radiologists participating in our annual compensation and benefits survey reported an average base salary of $473,000 in 2023, up from $439,944 the year before.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

3 Hospital and health system leaders who want to ensure value and efficiency in imaging orders and clinical collaboration are also likely to be looking for ways to preserve the time of their radiologists and care teams -- to devote more time to complex cases. This is usually what radiologists want to see," Ahmed said. "AI

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 21, 2024

population, or 35 million individuals, are hospitalized each year, with caregivers collecting critical information that could facilitate imaging. About 12% of the U.S.

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Health Imaging

JUNE 8, 2023

Clinicians only want the information they need to make treatment decisions, rather than advice on what actions they should take, the survey found.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 10, 2024

CMS sent out its request for information in September, mulling the possibility of reducing 4 Medicare Administrative Contractor districts down to 2.

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Radiology Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

Researchers recently fielded the survey, hoping to collect information about the state of IR practice and factors that impact access.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

radiologists must increase their interest and involvement in CTC. CTC images contain inherent information that may be unlocked by newer segmentation and postprocessing methods, leading to opportunistic screening for a variety of conditions," it noted. "CTC They vary somewhat between the U.S. and the U.K., according to the group.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Unless mitigating measures are taken, the current supply of radiologists in the U.S. A future radiologist shortage has been a point of concern for a number of years, the investigators noted. The radiologist supply study used data from the U.S. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) researchers have warned. higher than in 2023.

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Researchers with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center believe their study provides important information for institutions seeking to address physician burnout.

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Health Imaging

MAY 22, 2023

This psychological phenomenon describes the notion that people believe they can make better predictions or decisions once they have been exposed to new information on the subject, often causing them to overestimate their own abilities.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 10, 2025

Davin Korstjens of IMV Medical Information Division. Follow IMV Medical Information on LinkedIn for more diagnostic imaging updates. Davin Korstjens is the Director of Market Intelligence at IMV Medical Information Division, part of Science and Medicine Group. Want to share your knowledge of medical imaging?

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 15, 2023

Arash Padidar, MD, is facing seven felony counts, including unlawful use of personal information and issuing prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2025

This collaboration was unveiled atthe2025 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting in Las Vegas. It will provide RamSoft's radiologists access to more than 150 AI applications from Carpl.ai. RamSoft and Carpl.ai

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Health Imaging

JUNE 12, 2023

Patients might sometimes undergo unnecessary and costly evaluations when specialists do not provide referrers with all of the necessary information.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

Oftentimes, these deviations can occur informally, but experts believe careful documentation is needed to resolve them in a timely fashion.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 14, 2025

Kim will serve as chief strategy officer and chief medical information officer (CMIO), while Boonn will take on the role of chief medical officer (CMO), according to Founder, CEO, and Chairman Khan Siddiqui, MD. Boonn is a practicing cardiovascular radiologist at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia and former CMO at Rad AI.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 6, 2023

The FDA will soon require mammography providers to inform all patients of their breast density status. To anticipate how the update might affect key stakeholders, it’s important to understand exactly what has changed.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Previous studies have investigated hormonal regulation of BPE on breast MRI, though information is lacking for CEM, the researchers noted. Familiarity with these variations can help radiologists make more accurate interpretations and reduce unnecessary follow-ups. The full study can be accessed here.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The findings suggest that reimbursement incentives may impact whether gynecologists refer patients to interventional radiologists for UAE or perform surgical procedures themselves, study coauthor Eric Christensen, PhD, of the Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, VA, said in a statement released by the institute.

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Aidoc

MARCH 19, 2025

According to Jonathan Joshi, MD, Professor of Radiology at UofL Health and AI champion, the answer is clear: radiologists. “I think radiologists should be the ones driving AI in the healthcare system, and I do think that they need to have a seat at the table, Joshi said. It requires leadership and effective change management.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2024

Researchers led by Nelly Tan, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ, also found that after implementing institutional policies to comply with the act’s information-blocking provisions, more patients accessed their reports before the ordering provider did. hours Median time from report release to first patient access 8.7

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Practical AI implementation will require objective onsite performance evaluation, institutional information technology infrastructure integration, and postdeployment monitoring," wrote a team led by Eui Jin Hwang, MD, PhD, of Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A suspected cyberattack halted parts of operations at radiology outsourcing company Consulting Radiologists in Eden Prairie, MN, this week, according to a report from Pioneer Press. Small healthcare facilities without an in-house radiologist appeared to be most affected, the outlet noted.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 3, 2025

If MRI prostagram should prove to be a good screening tool for prostate cancer, urologists are going to have a lot of work on their hands, and radiologists will be needed to overcome this burden, said the U.K. We need to get more information from the MRI scan," Ahmed added. "We how best to report MRIs after focal therapy.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 8, 2025

A team led by Su Min Ha, MD, PhD, from Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea reported that AI by itself achieved a higher performance than radiologists with no AI help when it came to detecting contralateral breast cancer in women treated with unilateral mastectomy. The radiologists had 10 and 17 years of experience, respectively.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A large study, needed for FDA clearance, demonstrated that the use of icobrain aria significantly increases the accuracy of ARIA assessments by radiologists and hence allows for safer use of new amyloid-beta targeting therapies for Alzheimer’s disease patients. icobrain aria was thoroughly evaluated in large reader studies.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 2, 2024

between ChatGPT's outcomes compared to radiologists’ decisions and/or guidelines as reference standards. Of these, 24 (54.5%) reported the proportion of ChatGPT's performance: 19 studies recorded a median accuracy of 70.5%, and in five, there was a median agreement of 83.6% Image courtesy of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging.

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