Care Delivery

This channel includes news on cardiovascular care delivery, including how patients are diagnosed and treated, cardiac care guidelines, policies or legislation impacting patient care, device recalls that may impact patient care, and cardiology practice management.

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Medical malpractice ruling: Hospital to pay $39M over young heart patient’s death

Prosecutors successfully argued that the patient would not have died if clinicians had ordered a routine CT exam. 

December 13, 2023
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Study unearths high rates of incidental findings on pediatric CT scans for trauma

About 10% of these cases required immediate or urgent action, researchers detailed in Clinical Imaging

September 11, 2023
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Unavoidability of ‘one-off’ imaging forces radiology to keep one foot in fee-for-service world

Radiology can participate only sporadically in CMS’s current conception of value-based care. Why?

September 1, 2023
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Diagnostic errors linked to nearly 800,000 deaths or serious injuries per year in US alone

Five conditions—lung cancer, stroke, sepsis, pneumonia and venous thromboembolism—caused the most frequent serious harm. 

July 24, 2023
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Only 38% of patients receive appropriate follow-up care for incidental pulmonary nodules

The findings were derived from 2,500 cases diagnosed between 2018-2019 at an urban tertiary care center and followed for two years afterward.

July 24, 2023
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Risk model helps radiologists predict whether patients will experience contrast-associated injury after CT

The study represents the largest and most comprehensive investigation of contrast-associated acute kidney injury in patients with cancer. 

May 23, 2023
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7 lessons learned during joint big business/healthcare AI projects

Big Tech players have been investing in partnerships with large healthcare providers on AI endeavors for several years now. According to both sides in one such collaboration, the resulting synergy offers “immense potential” to improve patient access, care and outcomes.

March 31, 2023
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Study supports feasibility of full-time AI-based workflow in the ED

When used to flag anomalies in combined chest and musculoskeletal X-rays, imaging AI can relieve overstretched emergency radiology teams.

March 24, 2023

Around the web

Using CT to perform coronary artery calcium scoring on symptomatic chest pain patients can deliver significant value, according to a new data published in Radiology

Peninsula Imaging told Mary Raver in 2014 that a cancerous growth was benign. She now has 18 months to live.

The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance applauded two new CPT Category III codes for myocardial blood flow reserve (MBFR) assessments.

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