Maui Memorial Medical Center, a 214-bed acute care hospital in Wailuku, celebrated the new computed tomography machine with its imaging team on June 8.
Despite its high accuracy, CTA can come with tradeoffs including requiring radiologists to review a high number of images looking for findings that can be subtle, increasing case complexity and workloads.
Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD, currently is chief of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard professor of radiology, will take on the title beginning Feb. 1.
Leqembi (lecanemab) was approved by the FDA in 2023. It is an infusion drug that has been shown to reduce Alzheimer’s-related cognitive decline by up to 27%.
Rad Partners "firmly" denied the allegations, which mirror a similar complaint from Aetna, contending it plans to "vigorously defend against these claims" in court.
After losing a court battle with the Fortune 500 company last year, Jeffrey C. Allard, MD, and attorneys are homing in on an attorney's faulty credentials, claiming she "poisoned" the proceedings.
A referring physician orders an MRI of the lumbar spine and hits send. That order lands at three, sometimes four, outpatient imaging centers simultaneously. The center that contacts the patient first books the appointment. The rest miss out on the revenue.
