AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

POCUS allows for real-time evaluation and administration of treatment, without reliance on facility-based scanning, i.e. radiology departments, and avoidance of unnecessary tertiary care referral is a major benefit, he added. The clinical implementation of point-of-care ultrasound is making steady progress. Courtesy of Dr. Cher Heng Tan.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 13, 2024

Automation represents the current value of AI in the hospital emergency department (ED), a Yale University emergency radiologist shared last week at the 124th American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Boston. We diagnose almost 180,000 pathologies as radiologists. Davis also said emergency radiology is constantly evolving.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2024

A new, minimally invasive procedure that combines MRI and transurethral ultrasound is effective for treating prostate cancer, according to research presented March 20 at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting in Salt Lake City.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

Radiology practices often participate in the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The MIPS Quality performance category scoring has been modified for 2025, which could have a positive effect for radiology practices. This would include many diagnostic radiologists.

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Aidoc

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Radiology plays a crucial role in modern medicine, answering essential diagnostic questions pertaining to nearly every pathology facing clinicians. The rising demand for imaging services, coupled with an aging population and ever-increasing shortage of radiologists, creates the perfect storm for backlogs on a reading list.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 3, 2024

Neiman Health Policy Institute ( HPI ) study found that radiologists interpreted 72.1% According to a written study summary released by HPI, market share varied by imaging modality; radiologists interpreted 97.3% of radiology/fluoroscopy (XR), 50.9% of radiology/fluoroscopy (XR), 50.9% of computed tomography (CT), 91.0%

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Who made it to the final round in the 2024 edition of the Minnies, AuntMinnie.com 's event recognizing excellence in radiology? Most Influential Radiology Researcher Erik Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik Middlebrooks, MD. Most Effective Radiology Educator Francis Deng, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine Francis Deng, MD.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 24, 2024

of radiologists’ commercial claims were out of network (OON), down from 12.6% As such, by 2021, radiologists practiced almost exclusively in-network. This Journal of the American College of Radiology study was based on 80 million commercial radiology claims (2007-2021) for individuals covered by a large commercial payer.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It's definitely possible to reduce CT contrast volume, even in a busy radiology department, according to CT supervisor Gulnoor Sheriff at the University of Washington Medical Center, Montlake, in Seattle. It has become crucial to conserve contrast," Sheriff said. "We We don't want to overuse or underuse it."

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 27, 2024

Administered CT radiation doses are highly variable across patients, radiologists, and hospitals throughout the U.S. CMS required that this measure be designed as an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM), the first radiology measure to be written in this format. An Image Quality-informed Framework for CT Characterization.

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Everything Rad

JULY 17, 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes read Radiology administrators at AHRA share their strategies. What is the biggest challenge currently facing radiology administrators? The answer from radiology administrators attending AHRA 2023 was unanimous: attracting and retaining radiology staff. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lewis added.

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JVIR

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of a structured academic inpatient rounding service by interventional radiologists on revenue generation through conscientious billing practices.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It specifies the adoption of a new quality measure into the diagnostic radiology set of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) called Excessive Radiation Dose or Inadequate Image Quality for Diagnostic Computed Tomography (CT) in Adults, with the goal of improving patient safety by optimizing CT radiation dose.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 17, 2024

s accepted manuscript extracted claims from Optum’s de-identified Clinformatics Data Mart Database for hospital-based specialties occurring the same day as in-network emergency visits or inpatient stays (January 2017–December 2021). Christensen et al.’s After identifying OON claims, claims were then batched via simulated IDR rules.

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Aidoc

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Reducing Treatment Times In understaffed radiology departments and overcrowded hospitals, clinical AI is already demonstrating its potential to deliver faster treatment for patients by significantly reducing treatment times. 7 AI can help alleviate some of this pressure. References [link] Wiklund, P., & Medson, K.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

a provider of enterprise follow-up management and discovery software, announces the ability of their Discovery360 services to offload the follow-up responsibility from radiology and enable the entire health system to efficiently participate in the management of patients' Actionable Incidental Findings (AIFs).

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AuntMinnie

MAY 4, 2024

And having MRI available in the emergency department means that ED patients don't have to compete with inpatients or outpatients for MRI time." There must be sufficiently trained radiology staff to avoid [injuring] people, [and that's why] MRI radiographers must be in charge in all MRI areas."

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The ARRS Distinguished Educator award recognizes outstanding individuals in the field of medical imaging who have a proven record of improving radiological education and remain committed to creating and implementing new and innovative educational activities. Naeger, MD , as the 2024 ARRS Distinguished Educator.

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Aidoc

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a specialty that serves the needs of every clinical subspecialty in the hospital, the radiologist is uniquely positioned to understand both the technical and clinical landscape governing the healthcare system. At its core, radiology is a healthcare data science field. Healthcare Data Imaging is data.

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Premier Radiology Services

AUGUST 10, 2021

What Determines the Cost of Radiology Services in Healthcare? How To Add Stability and Lower Costs for Imaging Services One of the biggest line item expenses for imaging facilities is radiology reading services. You will want to have direct access to the interpreting radiologists. Several factors can cause costs to fluctuate.

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JVIR

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Interventional radiology (IR) services may be performed at either hospital facilities (“facility sites”) or office-based labs (“office sites”). Office sites are typically lower cost settings, yet lack the ability to escalate care to an emergency department or inpatient service if needed.

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Direct Radiology

APRIL 30, 2020

Front-line doctors, nurses and administrators are reconfiguring inpatient units, closing many outpatient services, and making difficult decisions that no one could have prepared for. Dr. Brian Stainken, Chair of the Department of Radiology at Stamford Health, needed to establish a new teleradiology platform and network in only one week.

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Aidoc

JUNE 19, 2024

A good portion of inpatient hospital admissions are funneled through the ED. Inefficiencies within the healthcare system, such as inadequate staffing levels, insufficient inpatient bed capacity and patient transfer delays. analyzed the impact of radiology processing times and patient outcomes. A study by Cournane et al.

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Capitol Imaging Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Having the procedure done in a hospital as an inpatient costs far more than having the same procedure done in an outpatient center such as CIS. Since inpatient facilities tend to cost more to run, patients end up paying more for care. Why Can Hospital Imaging Cost More? Get a Price for Your PET/CT Today!

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The British Institute of Radiology

JULY 9, 2021

It was a time when the UK’s radiology reporting capacity was at a tipping point, backlogs of unreported examinations were in the thousands, demand for imaging services was constantly increasing, and more and more patients were being scanned. TMC employ over 300 radiologists, with over 50 radiologists working in the emergency section.

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The British Institute of Radiology

JUNE 8, 2023

In previous BIR blog posts, I have explored how AI is integrated into PACS with the AI outputs seen on radiology systems, and whether non-reporting radiographers could learn and benefit from AI. She studied further in leadership, management, and counselling with a keen interest in artificial intelligence in radiology.

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Aidoc

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Within a given hospital, AI algorithms may be deployed in a variety of subspecialty domains, including cardiology, radiology and oncology. A unique feature of diagnostic radiology is its direct impact on nearly every specialty in the hospital. days, at an average cost of $10,400 per day.

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Aidoc

JANUARY 3, 2023

One of the most promising starting points for healthcare AI has been radiology thanks in part to the department’s high volume output of structured data, which alone makes it a prime AI candidate. On top of that, radiology is a key entry point for countless hospital workflows for both in- and out-patient procedures.

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Aidoc

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

According to Dr. Grodzin, “It alerts my team, both inpatient and outpatient, of PE patients that I don’t have to search for, which is a huge time saver for me, my administrative staff and the PE team.” Luke’s Health System John Borsa, MD, Chair of Radiology at St. Luke’s radiologist shortage. “It

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 5, 2024

Since then, reports on NFS and its connection to gadolinium have been pouring in: At the 2007 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna, Scottish radiologists reported on NSF episodes in the whole renal failure population of western Scotland. You know the next few suits will involve the hospital and the radiologists.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A PACS-integrated AI tool not only correctly identified pneumothorax on inpatient chest x-rays but also prioritized scans and improved radiologist reporting times, according to a group in Cleveland, OH. The research was published October 29 in Academic Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Shlomit Goldberg-Stein, MD, associate professor of radiology at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, presented data gathered through the study of the AI tool. For radiologists, processing the CT image using AI and then adding AI inferences produced a heat map colorized to indicate sites of acute PE.

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Aidoc

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The RSNA meeting has always been an annual highlight in radiology and healthcare technology as a whole, but RSNA 2024 is shaping up to be something especially transformative. Beyond Radiology: The RSNA Stage Expands RSNA might be known as the premier radiology conference, but it’s become so much more.

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