The federal payment program first started paying for AI in 2018 and has denied about 53% of claims (or 53,857) submitted by radiologists since then, experts detail in JACR. 

Lawmakers in both chambers have reintroduced the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, touting support from the American Hospital Association and several physician societies. 

The measure evaluates the proportion of scans that exceed certain thresholds for image noise or radiation dose across 18 categories. 

The patient’s family says the radiologist’s failure to notate an obvious abnormality prevented her from receiving timely treatment.

“Lung cancer screening shouldn’t just be looking for nodules. That’s a small part of what we see on the CT scan.” 

A former executive at Verily is suing the company, alleging he was fired after reporting the incidents to management. The misuses of data, if true, would constitute HIPAA violations.

Adena Health System was accused in a class-action lawsuit of deploying Meta Pixel tracking tools on its patient portal. As many as 89,000 patients could have had protected health information shared with advertisers. 

The Tempus Pixel platform was designed to assist clinicians with the evaluation of cardiac MR images.

Plaintiff attorneys claim the Massachusetts-based company shattered the competitive position of Pylarify, a PET imaging agent for prostate cancer. 

"We urge Congress to pass final legislation that reflects this approach and retains ACR-backed provisions that can save lives," CEO Dana Smetherman, MD, MPH, MBA, said Sept. 10. 

Founded in 2011 and based in Belgium, the AI firm offers the first software for automating brain assessments needed to administer disease therapies from Biogen and Eli Lilly.