Dubbed "Gail's Law" after a breast cancer care advocate, the passage follows years of advocacy from radiologists and patients. 

Sophia Shaklian, 38, of Los Angeles, and accomplices bilked Medicare of millions by submitting false claims for diagnostic imaging and hospice care that was unnecessary or never administered. 

The system is designed for point-of-care settings such as outpatient offices, sports medicine practices and urgent care clinics.

Meanwhile members of Gen Z are twice as likely as other generations to get sneaky about their use of medical AI. 

In a Final Rule revealed last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlined its plan to exchange medical records, diagnostic images and clinical notes electronically using secure protocols. Once the rule is published in the Federal Register, any HIPAA-covered entity that interacts with Medicare will have two years to follow CMS into the modern age.

ImmunityBio, the developer of bladder cancer treatment Anktiva, is accused by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of disseminating “false or misleading information” about the drug's efficacy in an advertisement and podcast. The FDA said it’s not the first time it's sent a warning letter to the company’s executives over allegedly inaccurate claims.

Experts are cautioning that these falsified images could have serious implications for radiologists in the future.

The Society of Interventional Radiology and others are calling for updated safety standards that reach beyond patients and take into account the occupational hazards faced during fluoroscopy. 

U.S. healthcare will know it’s gotten AI right when the technology demonstrably improves care access, attentiveness and outcomes for the least financially healthy among us. 

Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s top heart hospitals, has launched a new two-part partnership with Ohio-based DASI Simulations.