On November 4, Nuclear Medicine Europe indicated inspections at the downed BR2 reactor had been finalized.

New research indicates that there is significant reader variability in COVID classifications among different specialties when chest X-rays alone are the diagnostic tool of choice.

Check out this week’s Movers & Shakers, a roundup of the latest executive movements in the healthcare industry.

The radiologist involved in the incident indicated that the department’s burdensome workload resulted in reduced reading times, saying that this made their departmental standard of double reading scans “virtually unattainable."

VillageMD, which is majority-owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance, is acquiring Summit Health in a deal valued at $8.9 billion.

The new study, presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions 2022 conference in Chicago, focused on data from more than 2,000 patients. 

Hospitals are rich and poised to get richer while independent physicians and groups continue to take it on the chin, facing ever more onerous pressures to consolidate under the headship of large hospitals, health systems or for-profit practice management companies.

“Without a clear reference standard technique that optimizes patient outcomes, device selection is based on availability and physician-driven selection, which can substantially impact procedural costs,” authors of a new cost analysis in Clinical Radiology stated.