Hospital margins were -0.1% during September, compared to -0.5% in August and -1.1% in July.

In a new paper in Radiology, experts explain how the use of artificial intelligence to identify lesion subtypes could benefit both clinics and patients. 

Atrial fibrillation and peripheral artery disease, for example, are both predictors of mortality among women, but not men. 

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were handed a big win in the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) with several changes to the shared savings program that will likely encourage participation.

Wayne, NJ, November 3, 2022 – Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leader in medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology, announces the introduction of new digital radiography (DR) solutions that will continue to transform the clinical value of X-ray. In 2020, Konica Minolta Healthcare launched Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR), and now the company is extending this advancement to the new KDR® Flex Overhead X-ray System. Konica Minolta previously announced DDR on the Chiropractic Straight Arm and the mKDR Xpress™ Mobile X-ray System, which recently received US FDA 510(k) clearance for the DDR option.

Linköping, Sweden and Mississauga, ON – November 3, 2022 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) and William Osler Health System (Osler) have signed a contract to expand their orthopaedic solution to include radiology imaging, breast imaging, and Sectra’s vendor-neutral archive (VNA), scaling into a new enterprise imaging agreement.

Though it is not yet clear why some COVID patients develop thyroiditis and some do not, researchers maintain that their findings “support the hypothesis of a direct thyroid gland involvement in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.” 

New research out of Mayo Clinic found that clinicians who listened to AI-based treatment recommendations were more successful at identifying patients with low ejection fraction. 

When implanted in the brain, the chips can lessen symptoms by modulating abnormal brain activity.

A leading U.K. radiologist tells what he saw as this challenging scenario snowballed into being and what he believes must be done to make matters more manageable.