Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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Radiologist starting salaries up 13.5% over last year

Radiologists are receiving salary offers averaging $455,000 to start a new job in 2022, up from $401,000 in 2021.  

True or false? ‘AI does not influence radiologists’ performance’

A healthcare AI startup in Silicon Valley is partnering with a top-tier medical school—and hopefully a few good radiologists—to test a hypothesis that’s increasingly crucial to radiology.

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GE will keep its brand in spin-off moves

GE HealthCare will be the name of the company’s healthcare business, while its energy portfolio will go under the moniker GE Vernova, and its aviation business will be dubbed GE Aerospace.

Canon grows footprint with acquisition of regional distributor

A longtime distributor and servicer of Canon medical imaging equipment is being acquired by Canon Medical Systems USA.

Startup OEM expands pediatric use cases for portable MRI

Portable MRI maker Hyperfine is touting a new capability in its Swoop scanner that may appeal to pediatric neurologists and neurosurgeons as well as neuroradiologists.

Lumbar surgery AI planner, tracker gets regulatory green light

A machine learning system for planning spine surgery that also predicts post-op spinal alignment six months out has cleared the FDA’s 510(k) review process.

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3D mammography may shake ‘routine’ out of architectural distortion surgery

When counseling patients with architectural distortion on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) but no signs of malignancy on biopsy, mammographers should raise imaging alone as a sound option for surveillance.

Surgeons successfully transplant pig hearts into recently deceased humans

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pigs hearts into recently deceased humans in June and July.