Diagnostic Imaging

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Is it plausible that the current emphasis on spending what it takes to recruit and retain radiologists in a thriving job market shifts to more and more of a dependence on AI?

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For another year running, radiologic technologists (RTs) and radiologists enjoyed higher salaries in the past year, according to AuntMinnie.com 's 2024 SalaryScan survey. Radiologists participating in our annual compensation and benefits survey reported an average base salary of $473,000 in 2023, up from $439,944 the year before.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A woman in New Zealand is now battling advanced cancer after signs of worsening prognosis eluded the eyes of a radiologist.

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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. External 0.86 External 0.86

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 16, 2024

ChatGPT-4 matched radiologists when tasked with detecting errors in imaging reports, with the study suggesting the technology may be useful for improving reporting accuracy, according to a study published April 16 in Radiology. ChatGPT-4 matched radiologists in detecting errors in radiology reports.

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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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Health IT Analytics

MARCH 21, 2024

AI improves performance for some radiologists, but not others, raising questions about a one-size-fits-all integration approach for the tools in healthcare.

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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.

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Radiology Business

JULY 29, 2024

“Every radiologist should have grave concerns about this ruling and think twice about practicing in the state," The Medical Group's Anand P. Lalaji, MD, said Monday.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Integrating eye-tracking data that map how radiologists interpret x-rays into deep learning AI algorithms could be key to developing more “human-centered” AI, according to a recent study. Difference between saccades, fixations, and attention heatmaps in radiologist eye-tracking studies.

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RadsResident

JANUARY 14, 2023

General Public Thinks Radiologists And Radiology Technologists Are The Same! Almost every radiologist gets the question from their family or friends about whether you help position the patients to take the images they interpret. Sure, some tele-radiologists live that life. Many radiologists make a good living.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 3, 2024

Neiman Health Policy Institute ( HPI ) study found that radiologists interpreted 72.1% According to a written study summary released by HPI, market share varied by imaging modality; radiologists interpreted 97.3% Even in the office setting, radiologists interpreted a majority of non-cardiac advanced imaging (84.4% of ultrasound.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Based on an IMDb search, radiologists appear as key parts of the plot in about 19 titles, with only nine available on major streaming platforms.

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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. They found that some observers performed better than expected for their rank and years of experience.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

An automated protocoling algorithm used with a hospital's electronic health record (EHR) software reduces radiologist CT exam workload, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has reported. The findings could make busy radiology departments more efficient, wrote a team led by Ryan Chung, MD.

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Radiology Business

JULY 1, 2024

Radiologists interpret almost all imaging studies generated in hospital settings for indications other than cardiac concerns.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Moral injury is common among interventional radiologists, according to a study published November 3 in Academic Radiology. The survey was distributed on March 30 to interventional radiologists via the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Connect Open Forum website, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and email; 365 individuals responded.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In a study described as a “competition between radiologists,” participants tasked with identifying abnormal findings on chest x-rays performed better with AI assistance than without AI assistance – though not by much and not in all cases, according to a group in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

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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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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?

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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.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

Out-of-network billing by radiologists – often referred to as “surprise billing” – dropped significantly beginning in 2007 and imaging claims are now almost completely in network, according to a recent study. And by 2021, radiologists practiced almost exclusively in-network, according to the researchers. in 2007 to 1.1%

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Ultrasound use has shifted over the past decade, including whether radiologists, surgeons, or nonphysicians practitioners perform the exams, a study published on December 13 in the American Journal of Roentgenology found. The share of billed ultrasound services increased for radiologists from 31.6% in 2009 to 34.2% to 19.6%).

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A radiologist in England testified in a trial of a woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter that the girl’s injuries were consistent with those usually seen in high-velocity motor vehicle accidents, according to an October 10 report by the BBC.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Omer Awan, MD, from the University of Maryland, recently co-authored a paper outlining what radiologists can do to proactively address this area, including media training and social media.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JUNE 12, 2024

AI detects prostate cancer more often than radiologists. This is the first large-scale study where an international team transparently evaluates and compares AI with radiologist assessments and clinical outcomes. Additionally, AI triggers false alarms half as often.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 26, 2024

million in damages in a whistleblower case involving a radiologist who used to work for Consulting Radiologists of Eden Prairie but was terminated after raising issues about the company's practices. As of January 19, Consulting Radiologists is the sole remaining defendant in the case. A Hennepin County, MN, jury awarded $4.6

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Radiology Business

JULY 24, 2024

About 13% of radiologists left the workforce in this fashion between 2015 and 2019, with the specialty consistently having lower attrition relative to other providers.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JUNE 28, 2024

While radiologists interpreted approximately 99 percent of all non-cardiac CT, MRI and nuclear medicine studies in hospital and emergency department settings for Medicare beneficiaries, new research shows significantly less radiologist review of cardiac imaging and office-based imaging.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 12, 2024

The radiologist's car was discovered during a separate, unrelated search, according to the county sheriff's office.

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vRad

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In my five years working with radiologists as a trainer on the vRad platform, I observed a wide range of needs and backgrounds. This experience highlighted a critical, yet often overlooked, aspect in our field: the need for accessible workstations tailored for radiologists with disabilities or other physical limitations.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In a more perfect world, legal cases against radiologists would solely focus on whether or not the defendant’s misdiagnosis reflected a true failure to uphold the standard of care.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Growth in imaging work relative value units (wRVUs) is outpacing the growth of radiologists and the number of imaging services in the U.S. Medicare population, a study presented at RSNA 2023 found.

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 26, 2024

Private equity-backed groups such as Rad Partners have dominated IDR use, with "little evidence" rank-and-file radiologists are using the system, experts wrote in Health Affairs.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Interventional radiologists are disproportionately distributed in the U.S, of the United States population does not have access to an interventional radiologist, however, many patients would prefer minimally invasive care,” wrote first author Yusuf Ahmad, a student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, PA, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 31, 2024

Yoga could be one way to alleviate burnout symptoms in radiologists, a study published January 31 in JAMA Network Open suggests. Radiologists and radiation oncologists have reported experiencing burnout, which affects their well-being as well as their personal lives and patient care quality.

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