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Healthcare AI today: Rusty clinical skills, AI growing up so fast, AI for the malnourished

Clinicians who come to rely on AI for decision support risk the dulling of their skills. The concern is not new. But now comes a pointed call to researchers: Inquire about the particulars of the peril.

Hospital giant Intermountain Health to acquire Las Vegas radiology practice

The Salt Lake City-headquartered nonprofit is buying Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging for an undisclosed sum, with the integration taking place sometime after Jan. 1.

Hospital lobby strongly urges Medicare to delay model targeting ‘wasteful’ radiology services

The American Medical Association also recently held a webinar about WISeR to share key details with physicians.

Rural hospital switches radiology providers to address lagging wait times

Hillsdale Hospital has entered an agreement with Kalamazoo, Michigan-based Premier Radiology, with the new arrangement starting Oct. 21.

Married couple in New York arrested for stealing $3M from Medicaid

Rohail Raja, 45, and his wife, Sharma Alam, 45, are charged with first-degree grand larceny which carries a possible penalty of 25 years in prison. The duo are accused of submitting fraudulent bills to Medicaid for transportation services they never delivered.

Russian cybercrime group hits PBM with ransomware

Hackers at Qilin claimed credit for a data breach at MedImpact, a pharmacy benefit manager serving insurance plans. The company said the incident is still under investigation, and so far it appears no protected health information was compromised.

Healthcare supply giant Medline announces IPO, valued at $50B

The company announced its IPO filing on Tuesday. Medline said it expects new investors to bring in a $5 billion influx of funds. A date has not been set for the stock’s listing on NASDAQ.

FDA clears new cloud-native advanced imaging suite

The product will become available to certain users as early as next week, according to a news release on its recent approval.

How 1 radiology department cut its mammography turnaround times by 39%

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan Medicine saw its peak processing of breast images climb to 198 hours or about 8.25 days, necessitating changes.

Following a high-fat diet impacted one middle-aged man’s cardiovascular health so much that cholesterol appeared to start leaking out of his hands.

Cholesterol appears on man’s hands after he lived on diet of hamburgers, sticks of butter

The patient, who was primarily eating meat, cheese and entire sticks of butter, said the yellow nodules did not hurt in any way. His cholesterol level exceeded 1000 mg/dL at the time of treatment.

Heart transplant patients on Medicaid face a higher risk of major complications

In addition, researchers noted, five-year mortality was inferior for patients on Medicaid when compared to patients with any other type of insurance.

MGMA's perspective on CMS’s 2030 shift to value-based care

Anders Gilberg, Senior Vice of Government Affairs at Medical Group Management Association, explains the issues that will complicate moving Medicare from fee-for-service to value-based care models in five years.

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