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Fewer than 30% of FDA-cleared AI devices share key safety, adverse event info prior to approval
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New GE HealthCare partnership expands access to prostate cancer imaging agent
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Expert panel develops new breast biopsy guidelines
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Radiology providers must pay $7M, modify policies after breast cancer miss

Radiologist Henry C. Lusane, MD, with Acumen Medical Imaging, interpreted the scans, reporting the mass as benign, a mistake later leading to a terminal cancer diagnosis. 

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Recently acquired radiology group reports data breach

The Women’s Center for Radiology, which was acquired by Solis Mammography in January, hired a cybersecurity firm to help investigate the scope of the matter. 

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AI cuts hospital system's MRI wait times by more than 50%

The health network, which operates 37 hospitals in California, drastically reduced scheduling delays after integrating an FDA-cleared algorithm designed to speed up imaging acquisition times.  

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MRIs show how peanut consumption improves the brain's vascular function

Consistently incorporating unsalted peanuts into a person’s diet enhances cerebral blood flow to multiple brain regions. 

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Society of Interventional Radiology urges UHC to update policy on radioembolization treatment

SIR contends that payments toward transarterial radioembolization (TARE)/selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) should extend beyond the current coverage limitations in patients with liver cancer and metastases. 

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Monitoring, reimbursement and transparency—ACR offers White House recs for AI regulation

ACR’s input is included as part of America’s AI Action Plan, which was created to help implement emerging AI technologies into everyday workflows. 

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Novel CT power-save mode could cut nationwide CT costs by $1.5M

Investigators with University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, recently explored the use of a “promising” new option that reduces energy consumption during brief, inter-examination idle intervals. 

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RadNet acquires remote MRI scanning solutions provider Alpha RT

The company offers a suite of services including AI-powered safety monitoring in case something goes wrong in the MRI suite, staffing, training and certification. 

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Popular LLMs confidently fail at answering image-based board questions

Updated large language models have been trained to process both text- and image-based questions, potentially making them more effective in radiology settings. 

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Why RadNet is betting heavily on AI to reshape radiology workflows

RadNet Chaiman and CEO Howard Berger, MD, explains why the company has invested tens of millions into DeepHealth to rapidly build up a new business model. 

 

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AI turns mammograms into CVD risk assessments—no outside data required

Thanks to AI, clinicians can use mammograms to do a lot more than identify signs of breast cancer. Researchers explored data from nearly 50,000 patients, presenting their findings in Heart.

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Fewer than 30% of FDA-cleared AI devices share key safety, adverse event info prior to approval

A new analysis is prompting questions regarding how rigorously many of the AI-enabled tools approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are evaluated prior to their clearance.