September started with some clouds in the shapes of data breaches and imaging fraud. Happily, the downers didn’t get the last word. On the 29th, Congress passed bipartisan legislation containing the fifth version of the Medical Device User Fee Agreement (MDUFA V). If President Biden signs the bill, the FDA can draw almost $2 billion in user fees by 2027—as long as the agency does its job and does it well. To get there, FDA will have to work harder at collaborating with industry on innovation. AdvaMed, MITA and MDMA all cheered the news. Here comes the sun?—Dave Pearson, editor
Suggesting the move will significantly advance radiology’s specialtywide imperative to “ditch the disk,” Montreal-based Intelerad Medical Systems has announced it is acquiring a longtime competitor in the image-exchange space.
Suggesting the move will significantly advance radiology’s specialtywide imperative to “ditch the disk,” Montreal-based Intelerad Medical Systems has announced it is acquiring a longtime competitor in the image-exchange space.
The event was the sixth Workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors, which wrapped Sept. 1 at the largest particle physics lab in the world.
The event was the sixth Workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors, which wrapped Sept. 1 at the largest particle physics lab in the world.
If you want to know how radiologists will learn their jobs 10 to 20 years from now, take a look at the ways schoolkids learn their subjects in the 2022-23 school year.
If you want to know how radiologists will learn their jobs 10 to 20 years from now, take a look at the ways schoolkids learn their subjects in the 2022-23 school year.
A machine learning system has come along that needs no human labeling of data for training yet matches radiologists at classifying diseases on chest X-rays—including some that the model was not specifically taught to detect.
A machine learning system has come along that needs no human labeling of data for training yet matches radiologists at classifying diseases on chest X-rays—including some that the model was not specifically taught to detect.
Prior to the arrival of COVID-19 in early 2020, Canadian patients waited nearly three months for an MRI and more than 11 weeks for a CT. Things have only gotten worse since then.
Prior to the arrival of COVID-19 in early 2020, Canadian patients waited nearly three months for an MRI and more than 11 weeks for a CT. Things have only gotten worse since then.
Six radiologists interpreting around 500 chest radiographs with an assist from AI bested unaided radiologists in measures of efficiency and/or accuracy in a new comparative performance study.
Six radiologists interpreting around 500 chest radiographs with an assist from AI bested unaided radiologists in measures of efficiency and/or accuracy in a new comparative performance study.
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug therapy has slowed cognitive and functional decline by 27% versus placebo in a double-blind, randomized study of 1,795 individuals with early signs and symptoms of the disease.
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug therapy has slowed cognitive and functional decline by 27% versus placebo in a double-blind, randomized study of 1,795 individuals with early signs and symptoms of the disease.
