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Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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Evidence supporting use of radiomics is 'insufficient' and 'weak,' according to new meta-analysis

Although the predictive power of radiomics has been touted as a tool that could improve patient outcomes, the method has a long way to go before it can be reliably introduced into real-world clinical environments.

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Many physicians are unaware that interventional radiology is a distinct specialty

This could pose as a barrier to referrals for image-guided interventions for radiologists specializing in IR, authors of a new paper in Clinical Imaging suggested.

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ImpressionGPT, a ChatGPT-based framework, can accurately summarize radiology reports

The program leverages the in-context learning abilities of large language models to generate report summaries using domain-specific, individualized data relative to radiology.

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Natural language processing can limit report discrepancies between AI and radiologists

Journal of the American College of Radiology study details how one radiology department  implemented NLP software to resolve inadvertent discordance between physicians and an AI decision support system.

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The good and the bad of synoptic radiology reports

Synoptic radiology reports with detailed information on disease sites in ovarian cancer could help to guide surgical decisions, but they can come at a cost.

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ChatGPT excels at radiology referrals in emergency departments

With proper training, large language models could help address inappropriate imaging referrals, which are common in EDs, experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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HCA reassures breach victims as watchdog identifies the brazen hacker as an attempting seller

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare operates in 21 states, and mass numbers of patients in all but one of them may have had personal information offered for sale as a list on the deep web.

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Salaries and job satisfaction in cardiology: 8 takeaways from a new survey of cardiologists and their colleagues

The 2023 Cardiovascular Business Salary and Job Satisfaction Report is here! We surveyed cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, nurses, service line mangers, coders and others in the industry about several topics, including compensation, burnout, EHRs and much more.