Motives for the hesitancy are several—transportation concerns, informational inadequacies, historical wrongs—but effective resolutions can be quite simple.
ACR, SIR, ASTRO and others are concerned about about forthcoming cuts in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that will impact specialties with high equipment costs.
"Large language models make the development of ‘smart hospitals’ not only a possibility, but a reality,” said Eric Oermann, MD, an assistant professor in NYU's Department of Radiology.
Michael Garwood, second from right, and collaborators at the University of Minnesota created a mobile MRI prototype that could provide diagnostic imaging to rural and underserved populations. Image courtesy of the University of Minnesota.
Someday, getting an MRI exam could be as simple as having food delivered to your door—at least that is the hope of a group of experts at the University of Minnesota who are working on a compact system said to be small enough to sit in the bed of a truck.