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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.

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Medicare drops AUC requirement for advanced imaging, ASNC celebrates

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

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Cardiology, radiology groups urge insurance provider to rethink imaging policy

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

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Radiology AI company gains FDA clearance for new CT offerings focused on PE, stroke

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

Study unearths high rates of incidental findings on pediatric CT scans for trauma

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

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

Only 38% of patients receive appropriate follow-up care for incidental pulmonary nodules

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