April, 2024

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Needless Customer Antipathy

Ben White

Luminello, my wife’s (now former) small practice EHR, just shut down, so I thought we’d end our sold-to-private-equity-just-to-be-shuttered-with-gusto story with a final litany of needless suffering and smarm. Timing To pressure people to switch to SimplePractice, busy psychiatrists running small private practices were given just two months before their current EHR shut down to research, pick, and migrate to a completely new platform.

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European Society of Breast Imaging Issues Updated Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations

Diagnostic Imaging

One of the recommendations from the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) is annual breast MRI exams starting at 25 years of age for women deemed to be at high risk for breast cancer.

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World's most powerful MRI scans first images of human brain

Medical Xpress: Radiology

The world's most powerful MRI scanner has delivered its first images of human brains, reaching a new level of precision that is hoped will shed more light on our mysterious minds—and the illnesses that haunt them.

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Google teams with Bayer to address radiologist burnout via AI

Radiology Business

"Gen AI can help tackle repetitive tasks and provide insights into massive datasets, saving valuable time," Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said Tuesday.

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.

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Even AI struggles to work under stress, study suggests

Health Imaging

Apparently, it isn’t just humans who occasionally struggle to work under stress. According to a recent study, the performance of AI flounders, too.

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Dealing with a USMLE Failure

Ben White

This post is written for anyone who is lost and dejected after failing one of the Step exams. § First, I’m sorry that you’re going through this. The path to becoming a doctor is long and hard, but there’s something unique about high-stakes testing that adds stress and uncertainty. I know this may sound a little odd/dramatic, but I think dealing with a big testing disappointment is ultimately the same as any other grieving process.

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Biennial Mammography Over Annual Mammography? USPSTF Issues Updated Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations

Diagnostic Imaging

In finalized updates to breast cancer screening recommendations, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advocates biennial mammography screening for women 40 to 74 years of age and notes insufficient evidence for the use of supplemental MRI in women with dense breasts.

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Can Chat GPT accurately refer patients to IR for treatment?

AuntMinnie

Chloe Cross, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. In interventional radiology (IR), most of us quickly become accustomed to needing to explain what we do -- to other clinicians, patients, their families, and even our own families. But how do patients get their own information about IR, if at all? When a patient receives a diagnosis, they may have multiple medical specialists offering various treatment recommendations, so they may be unsure which to follow.

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Radiologists ponder private equity in medicine: ‘Why aren’t we more concerned?’

Radiology Business

Leah Davis, DO, and Sharon D'Souza MD, shared their thoughts in a piece published Monday by Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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Maximize Your Radiology Center’s Performance With Specialized Scheduling

Patient-centric scheduling can only be achieved through optimized radiology workflows, effective communications between staff and physicians, and, of course, through specialized schedulers. In this guide, we’ll take you through a step-by-step process to transform your radiology center into a high-performance hub of medical imaging.

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REBEL Cast – EMTALA + Reproductive Health Rights

REBEL EM

REBEL Cast – EMTALA + Reproductive Health Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast. Dr. Dara Kass is a practicing emergency medicine physician who was most recently as the Regional Director of Region 2 for the US Department of Health and Human Services. She currently works with organizations and institutions to advance and implement policies that affect the care of individuals in this new healthcare landscape, most specially related to all forms of reproductive health care from contra

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FDA assisting with new imaging 'marketplace' designed to improve AI

Health Imaging

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has launched a survey for stakeholders to provide input on the project’s development.

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Relying on “A Guy”

Ben White

Incredible story briefly detailed in NYT’s “ Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? ” by Kevin Roose: In the cybersecurity world, a database engineer inadvertently finding a backdoor in a core Linux feature is a little like a bakery worker who smells a freshly baked loaf of bread, senses something is off and correctly deduces that someone has tampered with the entire global yeas t supply.

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Mammography Study: AI Improves Breast Cancer Detection and Reduces Reading Time with DBT

Diagnostic Imaging

An emerging artificial intelligence (AI) model demonstrated more than 12 percent higher specificity and reduced image reading time by nearly six seconds in comparison to unassisted radiologist interpretation of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images.

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The Employers Guide to Controlling Cancer

About 40% of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetime, and patients are getting younger. At the same time, the cost of treatment continues to rise, with employers spending 8.5% more on cancer care for each employee than they did last year. The best thing employers can do for their employees and business tomorrow is to invest in cancer detection and care today.

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SRU releases consensus statement on endometriosis detection

AuntMinnie

The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) has issued a new expert consensus statement that aims to improve the evaluation of endometriosis. The consensus, published April 9 in Radiology , provides recommendations for improving routine pelvic ultrasounds through additional maneuvers and imaging to improve diagnosis of deep endometriosis, according to the authors.

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Private equity backed radiology provider Rayus partners with AI startup to launch nationwide whole body MRI offering

Radiology Business

Ezra charges $950 to $2,500 for exams of healthy individuals and analyzes them with its FDA-cleared software to diagnose cancer and other conditions.

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Leading the Way to Decarbonize Radiology

UCSF Biomedical Imaging

While the exact size of radiology’s carbon footprint remains unknown, the energy-intensive nature of its equipment makes it a significant contributor to the healthcare sector’s 10 percent share of carbon emissions. A single MRI, for example, expends the energy equivalent to powering 12 US homes and one CT unit equates to three US homes.

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AI identifies signs of COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images

Health Imaging

The deep neural network was trained using over 40,000 patient ultrasound images and computer-generated facsimiles made from real scans.

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Improving Access To & Utilization Of Cancer Screening With Color

Discover how Color's comprehensive care solution is revolutionizing cancer screening adherence and knowledge. Through an in-depth case study, Color's unique approach to comprehensive cancer care has shown significant benefits in increasing screening rates and enhancing patient knowledge. Participants reported a 2-3x increase in adherence to screening guidelines over just 8 weeks, with 84% of participants increasing their familiarity with timing and frequency of cancer screening.

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Deny deny deny

Ben White

The tale of case review at Cigna in ProPublica : “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” said Day, who worked for Cigna until the late spring of 2022. “If you take a breath or think about any of these cases, you’re going to fall behind.” […] The early 2022 dashboards listed a handle time of four minutes for a prior authorization. The bulk of drug requests were to be decided in two to five minutes.

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Study Reveals Benefits of Photon-Counting CT for Assessing Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Diagnostic Imaging

In comparison to energy-integrating detector CT for the workup of suspected acute pulmonary embolism, the use of photon-counting detector CT reduced radiation dosing by 48 percent, according to newly published research.

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Neuroimaging detects blast exposure brain injuries in U.S. soldiers

AuntMinnie

A battery of MRI and PET neuroimaging tests show patterns of brain injury in active-duty U.S. soldiers caused by repeated blast exposures, according to a study published April 22 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings may guide the design of a new diagnostic test for personnel exposed to blasts in training and combat, noted lead author Natalie Gilmore, PhD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues.

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‘Legal looting’: Watchdog highlights markets most impacted by private equity’s growing reach in radiology, other specialties

Radiology Business

The Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s new State Risk Index is calculated based on 16 unique indicators, leaders said Tuesday.

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From Prevention to Survivorship: How HR Can Support Employees Facing Cancer Diagnoses

Explore the latest insights from the American Cancer Society's “Cancer Statistics 2024” report, which unveils multiple alarming trends in cancer data. Cancer is on the rise among young adults, and diagnoses for 6 of the 10 most common cancers are escalating. With over 2 million new cancer cases projected in the U.S. this year, employers face increased challenges when it comes to supporting employees.

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Mount Sinai Study Calls for Major Changes in the Way People With Comorbidities Are Selected by Physicians for Lung Cancer Screening

Imaging Technology

milla1cf Wed, 04/17/2024 - 16:12 April 17, 2024 — A Medicare policy requiring primary care providers (PCPs) to share in the decision-making with patients on whether to proceed with lung cancer screening is fraught with confusion and lack of evidence-based information, and may actually be undermining the purpose for which it was created, Mount Sinai researchers say.

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Image Wisely rolls out new MRI safety course following slew of accidents

Health Imaging

The course’s release follows a slew of reported MRI accidents that have occurred in recent years, many that resulted in severe injury and some that were even fatal.

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Just For Us

Ben White

If you have HBO Max, standup comic Alex Edelman’s one-man show was excellent. The official description of its main narrative thread: “In the wake of a string of anti – Semitic threats pointed in his direction online, standup comic Alex Edelman decides to go straight to the source; specifically, Queens, where he covertly attends a meeting of White Nationalists.” Here’s the trailer.

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Five Takeaways from New Breast MRI Literature Review

Diagnostic Imaging

In a new literature review, researchers noted key findings on the use of breast MRI in facilitating breast cancer detection for women with dense breasts and others at high-risk for breast cancer.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?