Hearings begin for Calif. radiologist who drove family off cliff
Court hearings have begun in the case of a California radiologist who drove his family off a cliff in 2023, according to an article published by SFist.
Attorneys for Dharmesh Patel, MD, who drove his family off a Northern California cliff in a Tesla in January 2023, are seeking a mental health diversion to avoid prison time and instead seek psychological treatment. The four passengers of the vehicle, which included the parents and two children, survived the 250-ft fall.
A psychologist testified that in jailhouse interviews with Patel, he deemed that Patel had depressive disorder with psychotic features, the SFist article...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: People in the News Source Type: news
Accuray to showcase radiation therapy tech at ESTRO
Accuray will showcase its radiation therapy technologies at the upcoming European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) annual meeting being held May 3 to 7 in Glasgow, Scotland.
The company plans to highlight its Radixact System with a built-in CT scanner, CyberComm, and Cenos technologies. Additionally, the company will host a symposium and webinar at the conference. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Provisio's SLT IVUS System gets FDA nod
Provisio Medical's Sonic Lumen Technology (SLT) Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) system has been granted 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
SLT provides automatic, real-time, numeric measurements of the flow lumen of blood vessels without the complexities of image interpretation, the company said. It consists of the SLT IVUS P1 System and the SLT IVUS Support Crossing Catheter; the catheter is an over-the-wire intravascular ultrasound catheter with an ultrasound transducer array at the distal end, which also works as a support crossing catheter. Information from the ultrasound signal is used s...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Median posts Q1 results, reports net loss for 2023
France-based Median Technologies recently posted financial results for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, which ended March 31.
The company reported that revenue for the quarter was 5.4 million euros ($5.8 million), comparable to the same quarter in 2023. Median's revenue is achieved entirely by the iCRO1 business, which delivers services to the global biopharmaceutical industry for image management in oncology clinical trials.
Median said that first-quarter revenues were affected by the postponement of some studies to the second quarter of 2024 due to late patient recruitment.
Additionally, the company reported...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
HAP adds Atlantic Radiology New Hampshire to client roster
Healthcare Administrative Partners (HAP) is adding Atlantic Radiology New Hampshire in Portsmouth, NH, to its roster of radiology revenue cycle and practice management clients.Under the terms of the agreement, HAP will perform all core revenue cycle services on behalf of Atlantic Radiology New Hampshire. This includes billing, coding, carrier credentialing, business intelligence, and MIPS Measure Assurance Services. HAP will also provide the group with comprehensive practice management services.HAP’s Operations Center of Excellence is located in Portsmouth, NH. The center serves other clients in the state of New Ham...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ScreenPoint CEO steps down; new CEO named
Pieter KroesePR NewswireScreenPoint Medical CEO Mark Koeniguer is stepping down from his position after two years at the helm. The company's board of directors has appointed Pieter Kroese as the new CEO, effective April 25.Kroese has been serving as Chief Operating Officer (COO) over the past five years, managing the company's growth in that span.While no reason was given for Koeniguer stepping down, ScreenPoint stated that it "extends its gratitude" to him and wishes him "every success in the future" while welcoming Kroese into his new role. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: People in the News Source Type: news
Studies lacking for trans breast cancer screening trends
There are limited studies that examine breast cancer screening trends in transgender people, according to a report published April 23 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
A team led by Millie Chokshi from the University of Miami in Florida found that while studies that do include transgender participants have mixed results, these participants had lower rates of breast cancer screening than cisgender participants.
“More research is needed regarding breast cancer screening of transgender and gender-diverse people to inform the development of protocols that ensure equitable access to preventative care,”...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Breast Imaging Source Type: news
CT reveals influence of diabetes on COVID-19 severity
CT imaging reveals the influence of blood glucose levels on the severity of COVID-19, researchers have reported.
A team led by Dan Lu, PhD, of Kunming Medical University in Yunnan, China, found that the quality of blood glucose control significantly correlated with patients' CT severity score, with higher blood glucose measured translating to higher severity of COVID-19's lung effects. The results were published April 23 in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.
"Previous research has shown that, compared with normal infected individuals, patients with diabetes exhibit more severe conditions in terms of clinica...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Esaote reports growth in fiscal year 2023
Italian medical device vendor Esaote posted increased revenues for fiscal year 2023, citing upticks in sales in its ultrasound and MRI segments.
Financial results for the company's full fiscal year (end-December 31) showed revenues of 273.2 million euros ($292 million), up 6.5% over fiscal year 2022.
Sales increased in all business lines, especially in the ultrasound segment (9.7%), driven by the launch in early 2023 of its MyLabTMX90 cart system, Esaote said. The company’s MRI sector was up 3.3% over fiscal year 2022, driven by sales of its Magnifico Open "total-body" open magnet system.
The company reported a consol...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
NewVue partners with Electromek to deploy workflow software
Tampa, FL-based radiology AI software company NewVue has entered a partnership with imaging equipment and IT services company Electromek Diagnostic Systems.
Under the agreement, Electromek will market, promote, and resell NewVue's primary offering, EmpowerSuite, across the U.S. EmpowerSuite is a radiology workflow management platform designed to optimize radiology operations, eliminate the need for multiple worklists, and reduce administrative burdens, NewVue said.
The agreement was effective March 1, according to the firm. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
ChatGPT-4 not reliable in cancer patient messaging
ChatGPT-4 is not a reliable source for answering patients’ questions regarding cancer, a study published April 24 in The Lancet Digital Health found.
Researchers led by Danielle Bitterman, MD, from Mass General Brigham in Boston, MA, found that ChatGPT-4 generated acceptable messages to patients without any additional editing by radiation oncologists 58% of the time, and 7% of responses generated by GPT-4 were deemed unsafe by the radiation oncologists if left unedited.
“Taking the collective evidence as a whole, I would still consider generative AI for patient messaging at its current stage to be experimental,” Bi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Radiation Oncology/Therapy Advanced Visualization Source Type: news
State of the RT profession more palpable than ever
As the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) prepares to announce changes to its professional pathways and practice standards at its June meeting in Orlando, FL, ASRT Board President Brandon Smith said the state of the field is "more palpable than ever." An ASRT video published in March began setting the stage for what is to come from the collective professional trust of 18 radiologic science organizations. Together, they form the Consensus Committee on the Future of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy. With industry guidance on professional-entry pathways coming soon, the Consensus Committee's findings...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Jobs Market Analysis Associations Careers Radiologic Technologist Source Type: news
ChatGPT performs poorly on ACR exam for residents
ChatGPT-4 received a score of 58% on an exam by the American College of Radiology (ACR) used to assess the skills of diagnostic and interventional radiology residents, according to a study published April 22 in Academic Radiology.
A team at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY, prompted ChatGPT-4 to answer 106 questions on the ACR’s Diagnostic Radiology In-Training (DXIT) exam, with its performance underscoring both the chatbot’s potential and risks as a diagnostic tool, noted lead author David Payne, MD, and colleagues.
“While minimally prompted GPT-4 was seen to make many impressive observations and diagnose...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Artificial Intelligence Residents/Fellows Source Type: news
SPECT/CT predicts foot amputations in diabetics
Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) white blood cell SPECT/CT imaging may be useful for identifying diabetic patients at risk of amputations due to foot infections, according to a study published April 22 in Scientific Reports.
Researchers at Soonchunhyang University in Seoul, South Korea, found that patients were more likely to undergo amputations when they had high Tc-99m-labeled white blood cell activity at infection sites compared to patients with lower activity. The marker could help identify which patients need more aggressive interventions to avoid amputations, the group suggested.
“There is no efficient imaging tool establ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
Clinical practice LCS program finds more disease than NLST
Over a five-year period, a clinical practice lung cancer screening program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, found more disease than did the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), researchers have reported.
The program showed a higher rate of lung cancer compared to the NLST’s, at 3.4% versus 2.4%. It also found more stage IV disease, wrote a team led by Kyle Lafata, PhD. The results were published April 23 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
“As LCS uptake increases, monitoring and tracking screening outcomes in clinical practice settings is key to high-quality screening and success,...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 24, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Chest Radiology Source Type: news
