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.

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Increased imaging utilization an ‘underrecognized’ facet of America’s substance use epidemic

On average, imaging costs per patient were almost 300% higher in the substance-use cohort, experts detailed in Academic Radiology

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Steadily declining mammography screening rates have hit a historic low, new data show

The proportion of women undergoing breast cancer imaging has dropped significantly from the peak seen between 2007 and 2010. 

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Radiology groups slam UnitedHealthcare decision they say was inspired by ‘science-harvesting mercenaries’

UHC has labeled an IR service docs have been delivering for 9 years as “unproven and not medically necessary due to insufficient evidence of efficacy." 

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University charts a world’s first with clinical use of new $9M 7T MRI system

The Siemens Magnetom scanner utilizes dedicated radiofrequency sodium coils and parallel transmit technology—a “stark” difference from older models

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Radiologists launch ‘groundbreaking’ clinical trial to assess new pain management method

EMBOLIZE is a first-of-its-kind prospective, randomized control study on IR specialists' use of ovarian and pelvic vein embolization. 

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GE HealthCare touts FDA clearance of solution that allows technologists to scan remotely

The offering is from Ionic Health, which is based in São Paulo, Brazil, where the company has already tested the technology for three years. 

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Radiologists produce imitation PET scans via routine CT imaging

“With further tuning and validation, this pipeline may potentially add value in cancer screening, staging, diagnosis and prognosis," experts wrote in Cell Reports Medicine.  
 

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Radiologists are not a monolith: AI impacts members of the specialty differently

“Surprisingly,” experts wrote in Nature Medicine, experience-based factors such as a physicians’ subspecialty or previous AI use failed to reliably predict the technology's impact. 

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.