Allstate Insurance and entities related to Allstate filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Oct. 18 against Rockville Centre Diagnostic Imaging and Diagnostic Imaging of Rockville Centre, alleging they “wrongfully paid” approximately $1.3 million for fraudulent charges related to diagnostic radiology services.
After four years of testing on animals and making key updates, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research in Minneapolis was finally ready to test its massive 10.5T MRI scanner on a human. And once the scan was complete, it turned out it was worth the wait.
Fujifilm Sonosite has announced the launch of its redesigned online educational tool, SonoSite Institute, developed to educate physicians and other providers about point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and its uses in clinical practice.
The authors of a new study in Academic Radiology developed a clinical decision support (CDS) algorithm to help physicians reduce overutilized imaging examinations in the emergency department (ED). The physicians, however, consistently disregarded its recommendations.
Radiologist Timothy Mosher, MD, has developed a first-of-its-kind medical school course that seeks to pinpoint “systemic causes of misdiagnosis” and identify ways of preventing such cases.
Images show simultaneously acquired T1 (top), T2 (middle), and proton density (M0) (bottom) maps in a 23-year-old healthy female participant. Courtesy of RSNA.
A new breast imaging technique uses MR fingerprinting for the volumetric quantification of T1 and T2 relaxation times for breast tissue, according to new research published in Radiology.
A research team led by Bharti Khurana, MD, of the department of radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is working to create a program that can identify signs of intimate partner violence (IPV) in imaging results.
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) and Democratic congressional candidate Brendan Kelly held a roundtable event at the American Legion with veterans across southern Illinois. Earlier this year, there were reports of misread radiology scans that were uncovered at the facility.
