The rapid rise of AI could potentially change healthcare forever, leading to faster diagnoses and allowing providers to spend more time communicating directly with patients. According to a new report from the Brookings Institution, however, there are also risks associated with AI in healthcare that must be addressed.

People with severe but stable ischemic heart disease don’t benefit any more from invasive CV procedures than they do from optimal medical therapy and lifestyle changes alone, according to results from the highly anticipated ISCHEMIA trial.

The Silicon Valley giant was set to publish a dataset containing 100,000 chest x-rays, until it received an urgent call from the National Institutes of Health.

Starting with the 2021 iteration, RSNA plans to discontinue any educational programming on the final Friday of the agenda, instead concluding at the end of the day Thursday. 

The Washington Post revealed the last-minute decision—which occurred in 2017, but was never reported—in a story published Friday, Nov. 15. 

A “CTA-for-All” stroke imaging policy improved LVO detection, fast-tracked intervention and improved outcomes in a recent study of patients with acute ischemic stroke, researchers reported in Stroke.

Just two days before Google was set to release an expansive set of human chest X-ray images, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) called the tech giant to call it off over privacy concerns, the Washington Post reported. Personal information about the patients in the images were still contained in some of the files and could be used to identify patients, NIH told Google.

A pair of Penn researchers will scan 100 awake 3-5 year old children, comparing the quality of traditional MRI methods to those taken using a motion-correction technology to better understand the connection between opioids and brain development.

This slew of changes—aimed at providing more price transparency to consumers—would take effect on Jan. 1, 2021.