Medicare PACS Patient Care 
Ben White
MAY 9, 2023
If the shortage gets worse, then turnaround times will continue to lengthen (and patients suffer) and hospitals will struggle to get coverage (and patients suffer). The invention of PACS was a singular event that changed the field of radiology. Some hospitals have been hard-pressed to find coverage.
Intelerad
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
According to a recent article from Radiology Business, nearly 3,500 physician practices that provide radiology services disappeared from the Medicare Provider Data Log between 2015 and 2022. Of the associated physicians from these disappearing practices, 46% of them moved to a large multispecialty group.
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Aidoc
JUNE 25, 2024
Yet these pieces of information remain scattered and inaccessible to her full care team. One study found that Medicare patients alone “see a median of seven providers (two primary care providers and five specialists)” across four practices each year. Sarah’s situation is by no means unique.
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 10, 2023
My PACS will still readily show me the wrong comparison study. As such, PACS remains the priority. Integrating AI with PACS also needs to be seamless and unless an end user is willing to accept who their provider has selected as an AI partner a consolidator is the best answer. Some low balls to fix before mandatory AI.”
AuntMinnie
JUNE 26, 2024
only six out of the 300+ regulatory-approved AI applications in radiology are reimbursed worldwide” and the “… lack of public funding is a significant obstacle for advancing AI in radiology and could delay the realization of AI’s full potential in improving patient care.” Many will push back on this. Studies published in the U.S.
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