AuntMinnie

AUGUST 11, 2024

A prominent radiologist was one of eight doctors who died August 9 in a plane crash in Brazil. “It Leonel Ferreira was a receptive person who was happy to discuss cases, a colleague said. All photos courtesy of CBR and Berit Press. It is a sad day.” Airports Minister Silvio Costa Filho said the center was also opening a criminal probe.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 25, 2024

The private-practice coalition Strategic Radiology, aka “SR,” has added Arkansas to the 30 or so states in which its 1,700+ radiologists operate.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 18, 2024

A radiologist’s perception when viewing a complex MR image may be akin to a Major League Baseball (MLB) batter reading the stitches on a fastball, according to researchers exploring exactly how diagnostic interpretations are made. These results highlight that, at best, experience is an uncertain predictor of expertise level,” Alexander said.

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Ben White

JANUARY 26, 2024

What does that preferred equity mean for current equity owners, particularly those radiologists holding common stock? The radiologists lose and continue to lose in this scenario. With $300 million more preferred equity leapfrogging them in the lunch line, the value of most radiologists’ stock continues to trend to zero.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 12, 2024

It involves a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, geneticists, and other specialists. 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.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Radiologists and other physicians tend to trust AI more when the algorithms provide local rather than global explanations of findings on chest x-rays, suggests research published November 19 Radiology. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 5, 2024

Neiman Health Policy Institute study found that from 2014 to 2023 the number of medical practices with affiliated radiologists decreased 14.7% (from 5,059 to 4,313) even though the number of radiologists increased 17.3% (from 30,723 to 36,024). As such, the average number of radiologists per practice increased from 9.7

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A team led by Kang-Lung Lee, MD, from the University of Cambridge in England found that radiologists outperformed all LLMs analyzed in its study, including ChatGPT and Google Gemini, in terms of accuracy for PI-RADS classification based on prostate MRI text reports. The radiologists outperformed all the LLMs. 0.65; Bard, 0.57.

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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. As an image rich field, researchers and radiologists had to determine ways in which ChatGPT could assist despite its inability to analyze images and reliance on text-based prompts," the authors wrote.

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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

JULY 3, 2023

A few years ago, nearly every radiologist completed a fellowship. Recently I’ve been asked by several readers if I thought that fellowships were still necessary given the current radiologist shortage and white-hot market. Are practices desperate enough to hire general radiologists fresh out of practice?

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 25, 2024

Forensic radiologists and radiologic technologists apply their expertise to imaging exams -- typically x-ray and CT -- intended to illuminate signs of trauma. There is a learning curve for radiologists to understand postmortem artifacts." So how do these experts approach forensic radiology? Training is key What is forensic radiology?

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Radiology Business

JUNE 10, 2024

Mobile, Alabama-based Infirmary Health has more than 700 doctors on its medical staff including about 20 radiologists, providing imaging services at a dozen locations.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. Fishman concedes that there are barriers to educational pursuits in the radiology sphere -- not the least of which is pressure on radiologists to generate high relative value units. But these barriers aren't deal-breakers.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 17, 2024

Even expert, specialized radiologists performing their first reads on x-rays can miss up to two-thirds of all rib fractures, they added. The researchers used a custom dataset of 1,109 pediatric chest x-rays (624 with fractures present and 485 with fractures absent) manually labeled by seven pediatric radiologists.

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Ben White

JULY 26, 2023

Radiology & AI: It’s Complicated Back in 2016, Geoffrey Hinton, a deep learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, famously said : “People should stop training radiologists now–it’s just completely obvious within 5 years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists. Yes, I think it is still viable.

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Ben White

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note: I’ve heard a similar story independently from several different RP radiologists. To my knowledge, nobody has pressed RP on this issue yet, and it has not been discussed in any public forum other than a brief mention on this site earlier this year where I was quoting a former RP radiologist. It was inevitable. (To

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 23, 2024

The goal of this article is to increase awareness of the interconnected relationship between planetary health and radiology, emphasize why radiologists should care about sustainability, showcase actions that can be implemented to mitigate our impact and prepare departments to adapt to the effects of climate change.”

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 17, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 06/17/2024 - 20:52 June 17, 2024 — Strategic Radiology welcomed Northwest Radiologists, Inc , a 20-radiologist practice based in Bellingham, WA, and the second Evergreen State radiology group to join the national coalition of independent, private radiology practices since 2023. “We and in Ketchikan, Alaska.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 6, 2024

A deep-learning model performs comparably to an abdominal radiologist when it comes to finding clinically significant prostate cancer on MRI, researchers have reported. The study findings were published August 6 in Radiology. External 0.86 External 0.86

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It is important that radiologists are aware of how these complications present. Although serious adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines are rare, some are life-threatening.

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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

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. However, it’s not all doom and gloom for AI and its current limitations.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The double reading of mammograms, though the standard of care in Denmark and other European regions, is resource-intensive and demands significant radiologist time. tim.hodson Wed, 10/23/2024 - 14:18 Oct. The research found that Lunit INSIGHT MMG can estimate future breast cancer risk up to 4 to 6 years before it becomes detectable.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A team led by Dr. Jennifer Ligibel from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston found that academic radiologists have a higher-than-average rate of intention to leave their institutions. Radiology is among medical specialties at higher risk of physician turnover, according to research published on December 15 in JAMA Network Open.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 28, 2024

What’s more, the algorithm can correctly localize three out of four of the interval cancers it detects.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 18, 2024

With accurate and high-quality diagnostic information from the first image taken, retakes are reduced, speeding up workflows and enhancing the experience of radiologist, radiographer and patient. “We Reducing post-processing actions saves time so your radiologist can focus on reading, not rotating. A true One Click Workflow!

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 22, 2024

Sports radiologists are preparing for another fall season of high-contact sports, and that means brushing up on protocols and emphasizing teamwork among one's clinician colleagues. Football, basketball, and hockey oh my! Prior to that, he studied architecture. I ended up combining both things,” Klostermeier said.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 25, 2024

A radiologist in India has been arrested as an alleged key operator in an emerging al-Qaida-inspired terrorist group, according to an article by The Times of India. He owned a clinic in nearby Hazaribagh where he reportedly groomed individuals to join the group, according to the report.

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Radiology Business

MAY 8, 2024

The company, which offers software to help physicians save time and alleviate burnout, will use the funds to expand global availability of its generative AI solutions.

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Health Imaging

JUNE 4, 2024

It also increases cancer detection rates and reduces false positives, according to new work published in the journal Radiology.

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Ben White

AUGUST 16, 2024

There are thousands of rad jobs available in the country and more work than the field can handle, but only a fraction of those positions are at independent radiologist-owned and controlled private practices. This site exists to help those radiologists looking for the real deal. It’s the anchor. It’s what keeps them honest.

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Radiology Business

MAY 3, 2024

The college voiced its concerns in comments recently submitted to the Senate Finance Committee, which held a hearing on doc pay reform.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Consumers can track their pie when it enters the oven, is boxed and departs for delivery. Why can't they do the same with cancer screening results?

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Radiology Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Rural healthcare delivery is in trouble and private equity may have a role in supporting it," a Rad Partners leader told attendees on Sunday.

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Radiology Business

JULY 10, 2024

The college shared its concern in a letter to congressional leaders, who are exploring ways to address a physician shortfall that could reach 140,000 by 2036.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 7, 2024

New York-based vendor Cleerly recently petitioned CMS to pay for its primary CT software, which assesses scans for signs of coronary artery disease.

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