Americans suffer more than 1 million fractured vertebrae every year. RSNA’s latest AI competition may help advance precision detection and classification of this unfortunately common source of pain and potential debilitation.

Radiology business developments that broke softly but may soon make waves: 

Two companies serving medical imagers just had products cleared for marketing in the U.S.

Ron Blankstein, MD, associate director of the cardiovascular imaging program and director of the cardiac computed tomography program for Brigham and Women's Hospital, was a co-author on the ACC 2021 Chest Pain Guidelines, which now lists coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA or CTA) as a 1A level recommendation for frontline imaging. 

In a point directly pertaining to radiology, Leapfrog advises hospitals to have ready access to a radiologist 24/7 either onsite or via teleradiology—not only to read emergency exams but also to supply input on imaging test selection.

Undergraduate medical school students should be taught to visualize fluid-filled cavities with ultrasound and how to use ultrasound to guide a needle safely into a fluid-filled cavity, sonography experts advise in an authoritative new set of educational recommendations. 

"Ultimately, long-term studies are vital to parse out whether the absence of iodinated contrast media greatly affected patient outcomes or if we have been overdependent on ICM unnecessarily.” 

The bill, Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2022, extends telehealth flexibilities under Medicare that were initially authorized during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19.