"If you’re not teaching, you’re not mentoring, then you’re putting us in the position of training the last generation of radiologists," Frank Lexa, MD, MBA, told attendees. 

“Rural healthcare delivery is in trouble and private equity may have a role in supporting it," a Rad Partners leader told attendees. 

GE said the product also allows radiologists to share expertise, best practices and “in-the-moment” advice with other members of the care team. 

The American College of Radiology and 120 other healthcare organizations recently sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate, asking them to fix the “flawed” Medicare payment system.

The ACR Data Science Institute’s “AI Central” allows physicians to select algorithms that have been vetted for performance. 

“Other treatments have failed to date. This injection is working,” said lead author Adam Zoga, MD, MBA, a professor of radiology at Jefferson Health.  

Collaboration between various support personnel and buy-in from all stakeholders are crucial to program success, experts wrote in JACR. 

IR's evolution as a primary specialty, coupled with an "explosion" in diagnostic exams, have contributed to friction between the two professions.