HPI study shows radiologists at MIPS disadvantage
Impeded by a smaller number of radiology-applicable quality measures, in 2021 radiologists in radiology-only practices scored significantly lower on relevant Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) gauges compared with other specialties.In contrast, those in multispecialty practices scored higher in the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) MIPS, although they rarely reported radiology-relevant MIPS quality measures, instead tracking those relevant to other specialties, according to a research letter from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) published April 3 in the American J...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
Hoag launches Pylarify PET prostate cancer trial
Hoag healthcare system in Orange County, CA, has launched a clinical trial to assess the prostate cancer PET imaging radiotracer Pylarify in patients newly diagnosed with intermediate disease.
Currently, the radiotracer is approved in the U.S. for diagnosed prostate cancer patients to identify suspected metastasis or recurrence of the disease. The trial will use Pylarify with whole-body PET/CT scans in men with favorable intermediate prostate cancer, including Gleason Score 3+4 tumors, Hoag said.
The phase IV open-label multicenter trial will ultimately assess the safety and accuracy of the approach in an estimated 274 p...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Abortion care limitations raise medicolegal concerns in IR
Interventional radiology (IR) specialists should be aware of shifting individual state laws on abortion so as to not be blindsided when called on to provide care to pregnant patients, a clinician in the field cautioned recently.
In July last year, for instance, North Carolina joined 20 other states by passing new legislation that limits abortion based on timing, type, or other requirements, with 14 states having outright bans, noted Priya Mody, MD, an interventional radiologist in Chapel Hill. In a recent interview with AuntMinnie.com, she encouraged interventional radiologists to be aware of the nuances of these laws.
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Digital X-Ray Interventional Source Type: news
SPECT/CT algorithm predicts heart failure hospitalizations
This study represents the first evidence, to our knowledge, demonstrating that integrating SPECT MPI into an AI-based risk assessment algorithm significantly improves the prediction of hospitalizations due to [heart failure],” the group wrote. The research was published March 28 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide, with prevalence projected to increase by almost 50% from 2012 to 2030, the authors wrote. They noted that identifying patients who are at risk for heart failure exacerbation can open opportunities for prevention strateg...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 3, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
Cardiac MRI shows factors contributing to higher trabeculated LV mass
Cardiac MRI shows that higher body mass index, hypertension, and higher physical activity level are associated with higher trabeculated left ventricular (LV) mass, researchers have reported.
And although higher trabeculated left ventricular mass is not "in itself pathologic," it bears tracking, wrote a team led by Nay Aung, MD, of Queen Mary University of London in the U.K. The study findings were published April 2 in Radiology.
"Future studies should evaluate the long-term impact of cardiovascular risk factors on changes in trabecular architecture and subsequent prognostic implications in both individuals with healthy h...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Cardiovascular Radiology Source Type: news
GEHC completes MIM acquisition
GE HealthCare (GEHC) has completed its acquisition of medical imaging software developer MIM Software.
The firm announced its plans for the purchase in January of this year. The deal will give GEHC access to MIM's imaging analytics and digital workflow offerings, including MIM SurePlan, MIM Symphony, MIM Maestro, and MIM Encore, according to GEHC.
Although GEHC did not disclose financial details of the purchase, it was funded with cash on hand, it said. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ChatGPT performs well on radiation oncology patient care questions
ChatGPT may be a valuable resource for radiation oncology patients, with responses to questions over care posing minimal risk of harm due to inaccuracies or biases, according to a study published April 2 in JAMA Network Open.
Clinicians at Northwestern University in Chicago tested ChatGPT 3.5 on common care questions and found the chatbot generated responses comparable with those provided by human experts, albeit at a higher-than-recommended readability level, noted lead author Amulya Yalamanchili, MD, and colleagues.
“Accordingly, these results suggest that the LLM has the potential to be used as an alternative to cur...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
SBI president previews annual symposium
Attendees have much to experience and take away from the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) annual symposium, according to society president Mimi Newell, MD.
The symposium will be held April 11 to 14 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and will feature the latest research and insights from breast imaging experts and vendors.
“I think our attendees are going to learn a ton, but also have a lot of fun, which is important in this kind of situation,” Newell told AuntMinnie.com.
The annual meeting aims to strengthen knowledge and skills for breast imagers, including improving interpretative accuracy along imaging modalities, apply...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Imaging Leaders Source Type: news
Microwave ablation on par with surgery for thyroid cancer survival
Microwave ablation may be a suitable alternative to surgical resection when it comes to ultrasound-detected thyroid cancer, a study published April 2 in Radiology found.
Researchers led by Zhen-Long Zhao, MD, from China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing found no significant difference in progression-free survival rates between patients receiving ablation or surgery. Additionally, microwave ablation led to less blood loss, shorter incision length, and shorter procedure and hospitalization durations.
“Microwave ablation is a feasible option for selected patients with multifocal T1N0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma,” Z...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news
Does teleradiology increase malpractice liability for radiologists?
Medical malpractice cases involving teleradiology tend to be more severe and result in higher indemnity payments than other radiology malpractice claims, according to research published April 2 in Radiology.
In a retrospective review of medical malpractice claims over a 12-year period, researchers from Harvard Medical School led by Adam Schaffer, MD, found that teleradiology claims were more likely to involve patient death, as well as indemnity payments (and higher amounts). The teleradiology cases also more frequently involved interprovider communication problems.
“These attributes of teleradiology claims underscore ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: Enterprise Imaging Malpractice Source Type: news
SCCT highlights annual meeting program
The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) is highlighting the program for its upcoming annual meeting, to be held from July 18 to 21 in Washington, DC.
The society plans to offer attendees "practical tools to support the exponential rise in the global utilization of cardiovascular CT," it said. The meeting will feature a new program called India Presents, consisting of abstracts from authors from the Indian subcontinent, and joint sessions with the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography Interventions (SCAI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE).
Tracks for personalized learning will include Gam...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 1, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Subspecialties Cardiovascular Radiology Source Type: news
Can Chat GPT accurately refer patients to IR for treatment?
Chloe Cross, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.In interventional radiology (IR), most of us quickly become accustomed to needing to explain what we do -- to other clinicians, patients, their families, and even our own families. But how do patients get their own information about IR, if at all? When a patient receives a diagnosis, they may have multiple medical specialists offering various treatment recommendations, so they may be unsure which to follow.If patients search for information using new tools like artificial intelligence, what is it telling them? How much does AI know about IR? Does ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 1, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Chloe G. Cross, MD Tags: Interventional Interventional Radiology Source Type: news
AI shows promise in detecting interval breast cancers
AI can detect interval breast cancers that may often be overlooked, according to research published on March 28 in Clinical Radiology.
For their study, Prof. Levent Çelik, MD, from Maltepe University Hospital and Erkin Aribal, MD, from Acibadem University, both in Istanbul, Turkey, found that when AI was implemented into breast cancer screening in a middle-income country, it achieved high sensitivity and specificity in detecting interval cancers that were initially labeled as BI-RADS 1 or 2.
“AI has the potential to enhance screening mammogram outcomes, particularly in countries with limited resources, by reducing hu...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 1, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Breast Imaging Source Type: news
Can AI help chest DDR achieve clinical adoption?
Chest dynamic digital radiography (DDR) may have received a boost toward clinical use in patients with lung disorders, with researchers developing AI to perform time-consuming analysis involved in the technology, according to researchers in New York City.
A group at Mount Sinai Hospital developed a “pipeline” of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to analyze lung areas in DDR image sequences from patients. The model performed well enough to act as a surrogate to standard pulmonary function tests, they found.
“Our findings add to growing evidence suggesting DDR as a potential [pulmonary function test] surrogate,”...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 1, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Digital X-Ray Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
Study finds decreases in imaging's share of all healthcare spending
Although medical imaging has frequently been considered a major culprit behind the growth of healthcare spending in the U.S., its share among employer-insured individuals actually decreased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported.
In fact, imaging's part fell from 10.5% to 8.9% during the decade, according to a team led by first author Michal HornĂ˝ of Emory University School of Medicine and senior author Richard Duszak, MD, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. What's more, "nominal spending" (i.e., the sum of payments from health plans and patients to health care providers for imaging and ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 29, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Economics Source Type: news
