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 Healthcare showed off its new CT application for dose reduction specifically for children at the Congress of the International Society of Pediatric Radiology in London.
The newly inducted president of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology said the field’s proven a valuable asset in diagnosing cardiovascular disease.
The Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) pre-market notification for a new diagnostic imaging tool that reports to look deep into diseased tissue.
It’s no surprise that men would prefer not to receive a colonoscopy, but just how much they prefer the alternative CT colonography was the subject of a study in the current issue of The Lancet.
With the age of digital imaging comes new considerations that radiologists had not previously thought about, such as resolution size of a digital image.
Radsite, one of the leaders in improving quality among imaging facilities, announced that it has reviewed more than 60,000 imaging systems and about 23,000 facilities.