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Road to RSNA 2024: Digital X-Ray Preview

AuntMinnie

This year’s trip along the Road to RSNA for digital x-ray features a few familiar mileposts – AI for chest x-ray studies, for instance – but notably also significant research into how technology and new techniques can reduce radiation exposure in patients. Is adjacent x-ray imaging in the ER justified?

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Researchers offer age-specific dose estimator for fluoroscopy exams

AuntMinnie

A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. mSv for interventional radiology (24 procedure types) and 0.001 to 0.44

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X-ray vision: The complexities of radiology revenue cycle management

AuntMinnie

Interventional radiology saw the highest overall impact at 4%, which has affected how radiology practices manage referrals and compensation, with significant implications for RCM. Navigating evolving healthcare regulations is a perennial challenge. Technology’s double-edged sword.

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Powering down idle IR systems can reduce environmental impact

AuntMinnie

Powering down idle interventional radiology (IR) imaging systems can substantially decrease carbon emissions and electricity costs, according to a group of researchers at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. Medical imaging constitutes the largest consumer within the sector, they noted.

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Thrombectomy use increasing to treat VTE

AuntMinnie

The catheter is guided by x-ray to the site of the clot where it is then removed. Interventional radiology (IR) performed significantly more AT and VT procedures across all payers from 2017 to 2021 (IR: 46.7%; all cardiology: 23.1%; all surgery: 4.2%; vascular surgery: 25.9%). fold vs. 1.8-fold). Medicare and 46.8%

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4 ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in radiology

AuntMinnie

Thiel and colleagues performed an LCA in April 2023 of the diagnostic radiology practice of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.

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GE HealthCare and MediView Announce the World's First Installation and Clinical Use of Augmented Reality Interventional Suite that Aims to Transform the Practice of Interventional Radiology

Imaging Technology

a leading clinical augmented reality med-tech company, announced the successful first installation and clinical cases using the OmnifyXR Interventional Suite [1] at North Star Vascular and Interventional in Minneapolis, Minnesota.