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.

Some physicians not only avoid burnout but also find fulfillment. Here’s how they do it.
Of surveyed and interviewed U.S. physicians who showed significant six-month improvement in follow-up vs. baseline wellness checks, 47% attributed the gain to active personal changes. Not far behind were those who credited active work-related changes—40% of the field.
Mayo Clinic, Thermo Fisher Scientific launch new AI-supported diagnostics company
The new entity, Precure, will be owned by both groups. Its work in detecting early disease for timely intervention stems from a research project launched this summer. The Mayo Clinic said Precure will make the results of that initiative actionable.
HHS-OIG audit finds that major Medicare Advantage insurers engaged in $180M of alleged upcoding
The payers in question, Humana and UnitedHealthcare, deny any wrongdoing and are not obligated to pay back any money.
$5.2B healthcare RCM giant Waystar seeking buyer, report reveals
Any negotiations are currently in the early stages, sources told Reuters. If a deal closes, Waystar could be taken off the stock market and restructure itself as a private business.
3 ways to cut specialists’ wait times without adding more specialists
Add lanes to a highway and the traffic only gets more congested. Add doctors to a local health system and waiting times increase. What explains these parallel paradoxes?

An RSNA attendee undergoes an MRI brain scan on the expo floor using the Hyperfine Swoop head MRI system. It is self-shields with a low field 0.064 T. It uses a standard wall power outlet and can be wheeled through a standard 34-inch wide door frame. It weighs 1,400 pounds. Imaging sequences include T1, T2, FLAIR, and DWI (with ADC map) and its operational controls are all directed on an iPad interface. #RSNA #RSNA22

Appetite for AI, portability likely to shape future MRI design

MRI scanner OEMs will soon face increased pressure to differentiate machines in their R&D pipelines with superconducting magnets, open designs, AI integrations and—maybe most challenging—potential for portability.

RSNA shows conference attendance, radiology research still recovering from COVID

In-person attendance for RSNA 2022 dipped by more than 11,000 compared with the last conference held before the global descent of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Imaging industry names in the news: Koning, Medality, QT Imaging, Rezolut, Scanslated, more

Noteworthy market developments listed in the order announcements were posted.

Regulatory hurdles cleared by MedCognetics, Novartis

The Dallas-based company says its product incorporates bias-busting algorithms that overcome the lack of diverse populations available for model training.

Andrei Churyla, MD, Douglas Johnston, MD, and R. Kannan Mutharasan, MD, tour a clinic room designed for future AI technology pilots at Palos Hospital.

Northwestern Medicine opens advanced outpatient cardiac clinic at suburban Chicago

Northwestern Medicine opens a new outpatient cardiology clinic to address better patient access to care in Chicago's south suburbs.

Boston Scientific to acquire majority stake of interventional device company for $523M

Acotec, founded in 2008, designs and distributes a wide range of medical devices used in interventional cardiology, including drug-coated balloons and thrombus aspiration catheters.

Products from Avenda Health, Imagen Technologies, Ultromics OK’d for use in the US

An AI startup has been cleared to market a platform for precisely mapping prostate cancer with 3D visualization so the tumor can be treated without harm to healthy surrounding prostate tissue.

What do Google and Amazon really want from medical imaging?

Big Tech’s recent expansions into medical imaging have business watchers scrambling to decipher the unspoken stratagems beneath the conspicuous moves.

Business Intelligence

Some physicians not only avoid burnout but also find fulfillment. Here’s how they do it.

Mayo Clinic, Thermo Fisher Scientific launch new AI-supported diagnostics company

HHS-OIG audit finds that major Medicare Advantage insurers engaged in $180M of alleged upcoding

$5.2B healthcare RCM giant Waystar seeking buyer, report reveals

3 ways to cut specialists’ wait times without adding more specialists