St. George University Hospitals Foundation Trust in the U.K. admitted that missed radiology findings contributed to the death of three patients at its hospital, according to reporting from Health Services Journal.
Nonradiologists are still interpreting thousands of tests, presenting the quandary of whether policy changes are needed to help preserve patient safety and continuity of care, experts note.
Medicare Part B premiums will be higher in 2020 than in 2019, while deductibles in Part A, which typically doesn’t have a premium, will also rise, according to CMS.
A 61-year-old patient at the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute is the first in the state to receive a successful heart transplant, WVU reported Nov. 10.
The AI in Healthcare team embarked on this survey to gain a deeper understanding of the current state of artificial and augmented intelligence in use and being planned across healthcare in the next few years. Read more
Radiologists, medical students and surgeons all agree that AI should be incorporated into diagnostic radiology, but for the most part their perceptions of the technology are drastically different.
Nala, a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based digital health company, has launched a new AI platform for medical diagnosis. According to Nala, it is the first platform to provide users with diagnoses in Arabic.
A study out of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center suggests e-cigarettes—the culprit behind a vaping epidemic that’s injured more than 2,000 and claimed the lives of at least 39—could be more harmful to CV health than traditional cigarettes.
