Intelerad Medical Systems has acquired Lumedx, an Oakland, California-based healthcare technology company focused on analytics and cardiovascular information systems. This is Intelerad’s third acquisition in the last seven months.

This disparity occurred despite numbers showing that women across all races experienced lower recall rates when examined with digital breast tomosynthesis. 

About 60% said they experienced a workload reduction greater than half during the pandemic, according to a survey of 2,150 rads. 

Healthcare mergers and acquisition activity fell 13% in 2020, reflecting a significantly subdued economy due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

An AI startup’s virtual-patient technology is good enough at teaching empathy to clinicians that it’s already in use at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the National Health Service in Britain and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Compensation for cardiologists has been ample in recent years. Could the healthcare industry’s growing interest in value over volume lead to a change in that trend?

The recommendation stems from an analysis of Medicare waste in radiology and other specialties, published in JAMA Network Open. 

Imaging advocates believe that with so much at stake, the task force must take cues from one of the specialties most impacted by its guidance.