Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Viz.ai’s automated ventricle assessor cleared

The FDA has OK’d an algorithm that automatically ratios the diameter of the right ventricle vs. that of the left on CT pulmonary angiography studies for patients with pulmonary embolism (PE).

‘Low-trust’ providers inadvertently increase pain in patients undergoing diagnostic testing

The effect shows up on functional MRI as increased brain activity in regions involved in pain, emotion and attention—not only during the procedure but also afterward, when patients remember the experience and score its discomfort level.

Imaging vendor enters genetic medicine IT arena

The Swedish imaging IT and cybersecurity company best known as a highly rated PACS supplier has retooled its enterprise imaging platform to incorporate genomics data.

An overview of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology with Keith Dreyer with the ACR. Images shows a COVID-19 lung CT scan reconstruction from Siemens Healthineers. #AI #radAI #ACR

AI speeds, improves chest X-ray interpretations

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.    

Breast cancer screening a bellwether service in radiology’s drive to bridge the ‘digital divide’

Mammography practices need to continue supporting pre-Digital Age channels for patients to schedule appointments, participate in community health programs and receive annual screening exams in mobile settings close to where they live. 

In Canada, discovery of unapproved viewing stations leads to review of 3K mammograms

A governmental healthcare provider in Canada has begun reviewing mammography results from around 3,000 patients imaged over the past three years.

4 physicians ask 4 pointed questions about shared decision-making

Question 1. Is the CMS policy that requires documenting shared decision-making for lung cancer screening even working?

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.