Devoted Health, a new Medicare Advantage plan, has officially launched after securing $300 million in a Series B funding round, the company announced.

A natural language processing and machine learning-based algorithm may successfully evaluate inter-radiologist report variation and compare differences between radiologists using highly-structured versus free-text reporting, according to research published Oct. 9 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

Despite past research suggesting a history of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) could complicate coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) outcomes, a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association Oct. 16 reported prior PCI has little to do with how a patient recovers from subsequent surgeries.

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was awarded U.S. and international patents on a nanoparticle that can be activated by x-ray or ultrasound and kill multiple cancers without harming healthy surrounding tissues.

Dr. Thomas Mammen, a radiologist currently working in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, is suing the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) for allegedly forcing him out of his job after he complained about workplace bullying.

In 1991, Elizabeth Jameson was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which quickly led to numerous brain MRIs, according to SCOPE, a Stanford Medicine publication. For a while, she could not stand to look at images that reminded her of what was happening to her brain, until she turned them into art.

Cleveland Clinic researchers identified amyloid deposits in 10.2 percent of patients undergoing carpal tunnel release surgery, suggesting biopsies of hand tissue could be an early signal of life-threatening cardiac amyloidosis.

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) has issued a statement in support of new research from the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) focused on issues with the medical device tax and why the PRI believes that tax should be repealed.

Mergers and acquisition activity among hospitals and health systems is showing signs of a slowdown, according to the latest findings from financial consulting firm Kaufman, Hall & Associates.

Telehealth monitoring of patients receiving tuberculosis treatments is more effective and cheaper than in-person monitoring, according to a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.