Ben White

JANUARY 26, 2024

Last week, Radiology Partners released an announcement that it was “commencing a comprehensive set of financing transactions to strengthen its financial position.” Setting the Stage Going into 2024, RP was already cashflow negative (i.e. losing money) to say nothing of the massive debt payments due this year and next. For a reminder of what was coming, recall this slide: But it’s more than that: In addition to having no ability to pay these loans back, RP told lenders they̵

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Health Imaging

JULY 10, 2024

That’s according to new PET imaging that shows the presence of activated T cells in the brain, spinal cord, gut and lung tissues of individuals who have recovered from COVID.

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Radiology Business

JULY 10, 2024

The American College of Radiology has pushed for this decision since 2008, when trial results showed CTC or "virtual colonoscopy" to be a solid alternative to the traditional screening approach, which requires anesthesia.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JULY 23, 2024

For women with dense breasts, the combination of mammography and supplemental breast ultrasound had a 36.4 percent higher sensitivity rate for detecting breast cancer in comparison to the combination of mammography and adjunctive AI, according to a new study.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 9, 2024

X-ray and ultrasound machines were badly damaged in a rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital on July 8, according to radiologist Stanislav Rebenkov, MD. It will take months to recover, he said. "This is a very big crime," he told AuntMinnnie.com in a phone interview on July 9. "There are broken windows everywhere. It will take months to recover, but it makes us feel even more united and determined to rebuild.

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 8, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 03/08/2024 - 22:02 March 9, 2024 — DeepTek.ai, a leading medical imaging AI company, will showcase its groundbreaking US FDA -cleared chest X-ray reporting AI solution, Augmento X-Ray , at the upcoming HIMSS 2024 conference, taking place March 12th-14th, 2024, at booth #4661. HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is the world's largest health information and technology (Health IT) conference, attracting tens of thousands of healthcare professionals, indus

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ScienceDaily

JULY 22, 2024

Large language models may pass medical exams with flying colors but using them for diagnoses would currently be grossly negligent. Medical chatbots make hasty diagnoses, do not adhere to guidelines, and would put patients' lives at risk. A team has systematically investigated whether this form of artificial intelligence (AI) would be suitable for everyday clinical practice.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The complex process of drifting from wakefulness to sleep is governed by the brain’s cortex, and new research from UCSF imaging scientists advances our understanding of this important phenomenon.

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background : Alteplase, a class of medication that converts plasminogen to plasmin leading to fibrin degradation and subsequent clot lysis, has been the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients that meet eligibility criteria. Tenecteplase, a modified version of alteplase, is being increasingly utilized for AIS due to its favorable pharmacological profile, ease of administration, and cost effectiveness.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JULY 12, 2024

In newly issued proposals addressing changes to coverage for Medicare services in 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its intent to provide coverage of computed tomography colonography (CTC) for Medicare beneficiaries in 2025.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 24, 2024

The first scans have been performed in the Olympic imaging polyclinic ahead of Friday's opening ceremony, and the 68-strong squad of radiologists and radiographers are primed and ready for action, according to musculoskeletal (MSK) expert Jérôme Renoux, MD. "The service is now fully prepared to welcome athletes, and the first athletes have started undergoing MRIs, ultrasounds, and x-rays onsite," he told AuntMinnie.com.

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Diagnostic Imaging

APRIL 24, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

Machine learning can help improve echocardiography interpretation of heart tumors, according to research published on July 1 in Informatics in Medicine Unlocked. A team led by Seyed-Ali Sadegh-Zadeh, PhD, from Staffordshire University in England found that its machine-learning model achieved high performance in diagnosing heart tumors, including a near-perfect area under the curve (AUC) score.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 17, 2024

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) will be holding its annual meeting July 18-21 in Washington, DC. AuntMinnie.com caught up with its president, cardiologist Edward Nicol, MD, of Royal Brompton and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals, both in London, U.K., to get a preview. Nicol gave an overview of the state of cardiac CT and highlighted topics that will be discussed at SCCT 2024, including the modality's role in improving global health, its interaction with AI, and how pho

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Diagnostic Imaging

MAY 24, 2024

For patients with no history of coronary artery disease (CAD), new research shows the use of CT-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT) guided revascularizations after elective vascular surgery reduced myocardial infarction and all-cause death by 20 percent in comparison to standard care.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 5, 2024

MRI safety oversight is spotty at best, with gaps "big enough to drive a truck through," according to Tobias Gilk, founder of Gilk Radiology Consultants in Overland Park, KS, and senior vice president of Radiology-Planning in Mission, KS. The situation impacts not only patient care but also how radiology staff offer that care, and it must be mitigated, Gilk told AuntMinnie.com in an interview during which he outlined his experience trying to track down information on a few MRI accidents that occ

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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

JULY 24, 2024

Cardiac imaging teams should be aware not only of the adverse health effects of climate change but also the downstream environmental ramifications of cardiovascular imaging, suggests expert Kate Hanneman, MD, in an interview with AuntMinnie.com. Hanneman, a cardiovascular radiologist at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, noted for instance that heat waves this summer will cause more patients to experience heart attacks and stokes, which increases imaging volumes and thus overall green

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AuntMinnie

JULY 15, 2024

Young people are optimistic about the use of AI in medicine, including in radiology, according to survey findings published recently in European Radiology. Researchers led by Susan Shelmerdine, PhD, from University College London in England found that young people, ranging from children to adults in their 20s, feel that AI should be integrated into modern healthcare.

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Diagnostic Imaging

MAY 5, 2024

The presence of fat-enlarged axillary lymph nodes on mammography screening exams is associated with a fourfold higher risk of type 2 diabetes and a 2.6-fold higher risk for cardiovascular disease, according to new research presented at the ARRS Annual Meeting.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 15, 2024

Bone scans reveal that Tai Chi Rouli Ball could be a viable non-pharmacological approach for preventing osteoporosis in perimenopausal women, according to a study published May 14 in the Journal of Clinical Densitometry. A group from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University in China used dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans to show that the traditional Chinese sport increased bone density and bone mineral content in various body parts.

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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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AuntMinnie

JUNE 5, 2024

Women with food insecurity are less likely to report attending mammography screening, according to research published June 3 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. A team led by Jerome Phillip Watts from Howard University in Washington, DC, found in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey that women classified as having low or very low food security were significantly less likely to undergo mammography than women reporting high or marginal food security.

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Diagnostic Imaging

MAY 6, 2024

Researchers found a 98.3 percent concordance between attending radiology reports and AI assessments for possible cervical spine fractures on CT, according to new research presented at the 2024 ARRS Annual Meeting.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

JUNE 13, 2024

Observing anything and everything within the human brain, no matter how large or small while it is fully intact, has been an out-of-reach dream of neuroscience for decades, but in a new study in Science, an MIT-based team describes a technology pipeline that enabled them to finely process, richly label and sharply image full hemispheres of the brains of two donors—one with Alzheimer's and one without—at high resolution and speed.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 25, 2024

GE HealthCare and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have formed a strategic collaboration to develop foundation models and generative AI applications. GE HealthCare has tapped AWS as its strategic cloud provider and said it plans to use the firm's healthcare and generative AI services to build and implement foundation models. The companies said they will direct these generative AI workflows toward streamlining healthcare operations, increasing diagnostic and screening accuracy, improving patient outcome

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 22, 2024

In a recently issued statement from multiple radiology societies including the RSNA and ACR, researchers offer practical advice for evaluating artificial intelligence (AI) tools, implementing AI into current workflows and monitoring of the technology to help ensure optimal benefit and effectiveness.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 21, 2024

Healthcare leaders around the world envision automation and artificial intelligence (AI) bridging critical gaps that hinder their institutions' ability to deliver timely, high-quality care to everyone, according to the ninth annual Future Health Index 2024 report. The new report commissioned by Philips comes from a survey of nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders, including healthcare informatics leaders, from 14 countries and interviews conducted through March.

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Health Imaging

JULY 5, 2024

Despite kicking their initial habit, these individuals remain at risk of developing lung cancer due to their history of smoking cigarettes, current use of e-cigarettes, or both, experts caution.

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