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.
Current Health—purchased by Best Buy for $400 million in 2021—is set to become an independent company again, with co-founder Christopher McGhee taking over. The electronics retailer appears to be backing away from remote patient monitoring services, shifting its healthcare division's focus to consumer products that improve the lives of seniors.
The U.S. is one of 23 countries that consider workforce AI training and education only a medium priority. Indeed, our homeland has a less detailed plan than 13 other nations.
The legal case brought by all 50 states, Washington D.C., and multiple U.S. territories against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family has come to an end, with settlement funds set to be used for addiction recovery.
A class-action lawsuit claims CVS Health sent text messages to customers and patients, inciting fear over a PBM regulation up for vote in Louisiana. Plaintiffs allege the incident violates state data privacy and political communication laws.
A “sophisticated cybercrime group” is being blamed for an attack on the network of the private insurer, which may have exposed social security numbers and protected health information. The incident is still being investigated.
Siemens Healthineers has successfully integrated image-reconstruction software developed by a U.S. healthcare AI startup to increase sharpness and decrease noise in MR images captured during fast scanning sequences.
Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services posted a tentative Physician Fee Schedule for 2023. Initial reactions from radiology were muted. That changed this Wednesday.
To subspecialize or not to subspecialize? That’s a crucial question for radiology trainees who are finishing their residency but have yet to settle on a lifelong career path.
A medical imaging OEM has been cleared to market MRI image reconstruction software that, according to the company, sacrifices nothing in image quality despite allowing patients to be scanned up to three times faster than conventional methods.
Cigarette smoke inhibits pulmonary perfusion while nicotine-delivering vapors from e-cigarettes do the opposite, actually increasing blood flow in the lungs.
In a recent trial, medical students who were trained for two hours or less in an ultrasound “volume sweep” imaging (VSI) protocol obtained diagnostic-quality imaging of palpable breast lesions.
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announced today that the company’s revolutionary Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) technology, enabling the visualization of anatomy in motion, will be available on the mKDR Xpress™ Mobile X-ray System.