Cardiovascular diagnoses such as chest pain and atherosclerotic heart disease are key drivers of outpatient payments, which accounted for almost 57 percent of hospitals’ net patient revenue in 2017, according to data compiled by Definitive Healthcare.

Medical imaging is in a big battle with big data. There’s too much data in too many locations, and most often they are not well managed. Data are clearly imaging’s most abundant yet most underutilized strategic asset. 

Using an advanced PET imaging technique with a carbon-11-based radiotracer, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore found as association with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) and widespread brain inflammation. 

Approximately two-thirds of U.S.-based hospitals and acute-care facility leaders believe diagnosis-related group (DRG) optimization is still a problem that needs to be solved in revenue cycle management, according to a recent survey conducted by BESLER and HIMSS Media.

Pediatric imaging centers switching from standard head CT protocols to dual-energy CT can expect such improvements as fewer artifacts, lower radiation doses, equivalent or slightly improved image noise and no significant difference in signal-to-noise ratio.

When primary care physicians (PCP) interact with their patients at a high level, it leads to improvements in breast cancer screening adherence for all racial and ethnic minority groups, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

A contract dispute between Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Erlanger Health System and Tennessee Interventional and Imaging Associates (TIAA) is threatening to upend the hospital’s premiere stroke program, according to documents obtained by the Times Free Press.

More than a dozen healthcare AI companies—including Owkin and Arterys—have been named as top startups in CB Insight’s third annual AI 100 list.