Ben White

MAY 1, 2024

I wrote about this last September , but it’s important enough that I’ll repeat myself with more bullet points and shorter sentences. The Summary The new SAVE student loan plan has a generous unpaid interest subsidy: every dollar of accrued interest that isn’t covered by your monthly payment is waive. SAVE also has a feature (“loophole”) that allows some borrowers to enter repayment early and benefit from that 100% subsidy on unpaid interest, effectively making quali

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

MAY 1, 2024

In a paper titled, "Multimodal MRI reveals brainstem connections that sustain wakefulness in human consciousness," published in Science Translational Medicine, a group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital, created a connectivity map of a brain network that they propose is critical to human consciousness.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 2, 2024

ChatGPT has been effective in 84% of radiology research studies, yet it is still too soon to confirm its complete proficiency for clinical applications, according to a team at the University of California, Los Angeles. A group led by Pedram Keshavarz, MD, performed a systematic literature review and found that 37 out of 44 (84.1%) radiology studies show ChatGPT's effectiveness, yet none suggested its unsupervised use in clinical practice.

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Diagnostic Imaging

APRIL 30, 2024

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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Ben White

APRIL 29, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

MAY 2, 2024

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) have developed and validated an abdominal organ segmentation model and made it available as an open-source application for further research and potential clinical deployment in pediatrics, according to an article published in the American Journal of Roentgenology on May 1. After testing a number of different deep-learning algorithms, first author Elanchezhian Somasundaram, PhD, from the departments of radiology and pediatrics a

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Diagnostic Imaging

MAY 2, 2024

In addition to enhanced resolution, the uMR Jupiter 5T device reportedly addresses image uniformity and radiofrequency safety that have been previous challenges with ultra-high-field MRI.

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Ben White

APRIL 30, 2024

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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Imaging Technology

MAY 1, 2024

christine.book Wed, 05/01/2024 - 11:49 May 1, 2024 — After the issuance of updated breast screening recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF ) on April 29, a number of leading imaging specialists have offered their replies. Here, then, are summaries of statements issued in response. From the American Cancer Society (ACS) The American Cancer Society ( ACS ) commended the updated recommendations for breast cancer screening from the United States Preventive Services Task

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AuntMinnie

MAY 3, 2024

New MRI research suggests the neurological health of boxer athletes must be monitored and maintained long-term, according to research shared May 6 at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting. In a poster presentation, researchers from Lanzhou University Second Hospital and GE HealthCare MR Research in China shared results from their analysis of sport-related concussion (SRC) macro- and microstructure alteration patterns in the MRI brain scans of 57 active youn

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Radiology Business

MAY 1, 2024

“The RRA supports the goals for optimal access to radiology services for all patients and for alleviating increasing workloads," the college said.

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Health Imaging

MAY 1, 2024

This latest research further confirms that breast MRI not only detects tumors that mammography cannot, but it also spots invasive cases that pose greater risks to patients.

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ScienceDaily

MAY 2, 2024

Blood vessels in the lungs aren't like the others in the body. This difference becomes clear in pulmonary hypertension, in which only the lungs' blood vessels stiffen progressively, leading to chronic lung disease, heart failure and death. The underlying reasons for this organ-specific vessel stiffening remained a mystery until researchers made a surprising discovery about these blood vessel cells in patients with pulmonary hypertension -- they're hungry.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 29, 2024

PET brain scans show persistent brain inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), despite being treated with high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies, according to a recent study by researchers in Boston. The finding suggests that PET imaging of translocator protein (TSPO) in the brain can serve as a biomarker for evaluating patients whose disease progresses despite treatment, noted lead author Tarun Singhal, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 30, 2024

The guidelines now urge all women to begin undergoing mammography every other year starting at age 40, with radiologists hoping for an annual recommendation.

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Health Imaging

MAY 2, 2024

Houston, Texas-based United Imaging announced the clearance of its uMR Jupiter 5T MRI system, the first to offer an 8-channel whole-body multi-transmit system.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

milla1cf Mon, 04/29/2024 - 13:01 April 29, 2024 — Koneksa , a healthcare technology company pioneering evidence-based digital biomarkers, announced today the enrollment of the first patient in a pilot study collecting patient-generated health data (PGHD) during proton radiotherapy for lung cancer in collaboration with the New York Proton Center (NYPC), a leading institution in cancer care and research.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

Large language models such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini fall short in breast imaging, a study published April 30 in Radiology found. Researchers led by Andrea Cozzi, MD, PhD, of the Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland in Lugano reported that these models reported that these models show only moderate agreement with radiologists when classifying breast imaging findings by BI-RADS category.

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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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Health Imaging

APRIL 30, 2024

A general lack of awareness pertaining to ACR appropriateness criteria could be a driving factor behind the misguided requisitions, authors of a new analysis suggest.

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REBEL EM

APRIL 29, 2024

Critically ill patients requiring resuscitation often present with many challenges including the ability to secure safe, sterile, fast, and reliable intravenous (IV) access. Over the years emergency and critical care physicians have tried many ways to establish IV access in emergencies including the “crash” or “dirty” central line. If you are not familiar with this term, it’s the act of rapidly trying to place a central line (usually femoral), placing the needle for access over strict sterile pr

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AuntMinnie

MAY 3, 2024

SINGAPORE - AI is already changing the practice of medical imaging, and there's more technological growth to come, according to a plenary talk delivered May 4 at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting. Charlene Liew, MD, director of cardiothoracic imaging at Changi General Hospital in Singapore, outlined the current state of AI in radiology and where it is going in a presentation called "AI in Radiology: The Past Informs the Future.

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Radiology Business

MAY 3, 2024

Those in their 30s also have seen a nearly 13% uptick in occurrence of the disease, experts detailed in the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal.

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CurveBeam AI

MAY 2, 2024

Key Points: Currently plain radiographs are the standard method in diagnosing syndesmotic ankle injuries even though the distal tibiofibular joint cannot be assessed due to superposition of the osseous structures in the foot. Weight bearing CT (WBCT) allows bilateral assessment of the ankle syndesmosis while under physiological load and in 3-dimensions (3D).

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Imaging Technology

MAY 1, 2024

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Health Conference and Exhibition brought together more than 30,000 professionals including public health officials, CIOs, CTOs, informaticists, data scientists and practitioners in Orlando, M

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

CT imaging shows that severe acute respiratory disease events can be caused by quantitative interstitial abnormalities (QIA) -- that is, small irregularities that don't necessarily meet diagnostic criteria for advanced pulmonary diseases but show up on CT exams over time, a study published April 30 in Radiology has reported. A team led by Bina Choi, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found that, although acute respiratory disease events have tended to be associated with airway disease

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Radiology Business

APRIL 29, 2024

Out-of-pocket charges can range from $234 for a diagnostic mammogram to over $1,000 for a breast MRI, according to a recently commissioned study.

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Health Imaging

APRIL 30, 2024

Experts, medical organizations and advocates alike are coming forward saying that the new guidelines “do not go far enough,” particularly when it comes to addressing the screening needs of certain patients.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 1, 2024

milla1cf Wed, 05/01/2024 - 12:17 May 1, 2024 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) has issued a statement on the newly released Final USPSTF Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations. The final United States Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF ) Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations , while an improvement over previous guidance, do not go far enough to save more women’s lives.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 1, 2024

The International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) will be hosting its annual meeting May 4 to 9 in Singapore. AuntMinnie.com spoke with the society's president, Derek Jones, PhD, director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center (CUBRIC) in Wales, U.K. about what attendees can expect during the gathering.

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