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Legislative changes, demographic shifts and growing demand will combine to drive national health spending to almost $9 trillion by 2034.

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Pitting three multipurpose LLMs against two healthcare-specific AI tools, researchers have discovered the consumer-level AI can beat its purpose-built counterparts in healthcare scenarios—and soundly, at that. 

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Treating certain high-risk PCI patients with nicorandil before and after treatment can significantly reduce their risk of contrast-related injuries.

robot reviewing heart data

“We have colonoscopies, we have mammograms, but we have not had equivalents for most forms of heart disease,”  Pierre Elias, MD, Pathway Labs founder and CEO, explained.

 Derek Pineda, FNP, CCRN, RCIS, FACC, with Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital, explains the use of a digital app platform for STEMI team coordination that helped his health system improve STEMI outcomes.

One of the platform's biggest benefits is the rich clinical information it provides to all members of the care team.

radiology residents training

Harvard University is the No. 1 school in the world for radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging, according to the publication. 

Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD ou health

Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD, is slated to take on the title in September, also acting as clinical service chief of radiology at OU Health, the school’s academic hospital system. 

Akumin

The Tampa, Florida-based firm announced it’s teaming with CGS Premier to form a new company called Mobile Healthcare Innovations

PET-CT imaging of 124-I evuzamitide and SPECT-CT imaging of 99mTc-p5+14 showed radiotracer uptake in both AL and ATTR amyloid throughout the myocardium. Emily B. Martin, Anne Kassira, Alan Stuckey, et al. A tale of two tracers - Amyloid imaging with investigational radiotracers iodine (124I) evuzamitide and 99mTc-p5+14 (AT-05). https://www.journalofnuclearcardiology.org/article/S1071-3581(25)00325-3/abstract.

Bayer is acquiring two cardiac amyloidosis radiotracers from Attralus, one for PET and one for SPECT. The SPECT tracer is also a theranostic agent to both image and treat amyloidosis.

Medicare money payment

CMS previously announced it was temporarily reassigning payment codes for coronary CT angiography, resulting in a 104% higher technical fee. 

artificial intelligence

Previous research has shown that resistance to medical AI may be caused by difficulty in understanding both algorithms and human decision-making in healthcare. 

Bayer

The company has reached a deal to purchase two investigational imaging agents from Attralus Inc., a Naples, Florida-based biopharmaceutical firm.

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Legislative changes, demographic shifts and growing demand will combine to drive national health spending to almost $9 trillion by 2034.

Pitting three multipurpose LLMs against two healthcare-specific AI tools, researchers have discovered the consumer-level AI can beat its purpose-built counterparts in healthcare scenarios—and soundly, at that. 

Treating certain high-risk PCI patients with nicorandil before and after treatment can significantly reduce their risk of contrast-related injuries.