Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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Private equity-backed healthcare services bring more harm than good to patients, report reveals

Given the rapid growth of PE ownership in healthcare, the report's concerning data give pause to how such entities should be regulated, experts involved in the work suggested.

July 25, 2023
The Senographe Pristina 3D mammography system displayed at RSNA 2022.

87% of mammography centers now have 3D breast imaging systems

Rapid adoption of digital breast tomosynthesis has increasingly made it a new standard of care.

June 5, 2023
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Radiological AI may never dream of interpreting images—but don’t underestimate its virtual cognitive capacity

In the same year three humans first orbited the moon, 1968, the sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The novel imagined a dark, futuristic society in which real people couldn’t be readily distinguished from lifelike androids.

April 28, 2023
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Startup aiming to simplify the process for booking imaging appointments raises $12M

Scan.com is expanding into 5 new states with the goal of making scheduling an appointment as easy as securing a hotel room on the web.

April 18, 2023

New efforts to tackle imaging contrast shortages focus on vertical integration

For one pharmaceutical company, a plan to independently source barium and iodine from North America may offer protection from global supply chain disruptions.

April 14, 2023
Coalition for Health AI

Coalition acts to ensure credible, fair, transparent AI in healthcare

Having identified an “urgent” need for guardrails to keep healthcare AI from veering into an avoidable ditch, the Coalition for Health AI has put together a 24-page guide applicable to numerous groups of stakeholders.

April 7, 2023
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Key trends in radiology at the European Congress of Radiology 2023 meeting

Bhvita Jani, research manager at the healthcare market analysis firm Signify Research, shares noteworthy happenings from the ECR expo floor.

April 7, 2023
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Specialized lung AI tool cleared for U.S. sales

A popular marketer of handheld ultrasound devices has won FDA approval for an AI-enabled B-line quantification tool for use with patients suspected of having compromised lung function.

April 4, 2023

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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