Researchers looked at data from more than 2,500 free-text radiology reports of patients undergoing hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance to determine if an NLP approach could extract clinical data and predict downstream utilization of resources.
U.S. Senators Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania and Amy Klobuchar D-Minnesota introduced bipartisan legislation, Thursday, March 7, to permanently repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax.
Documenting contrast allergies in the electronic health record (EHR) is central for safe imaging, but a new study found such records are incomplete, misleading and often ambiguous. A multidisciplinary approach may be needed to solve the problem.
Carestream Health has signed an agreement to sell its healthcare information systems (HCIS) business to Royal Philips, the company announced Thursday, March 7. The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year.
Bellin Health Titletown Sports Medicine & Orthopedics (Green Bay, Wis.) installed a CARESTREAM OnSight 3D Extremity System at its facility next to Lambeau Field, home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers.
Kinematic quantitative 4D CT can help differentiate patients with subtalar joint stiffness and chronic ankle instability, reported authors of a March 5 study published in the European Journal of Radiology. The technique may better personalize care for patients with ankle joint pain.
The upcoming vote on whether the U.K. will leave the European Union has prompted the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) to warn doctors of a potential delay in receiving drugs used to detect and treat cancer, the BBC reported.
An AI approach developed by Dutch researchers performed similarly to radiologists at detecting breast cancer, according to a multi-center, multi-dataset study published March 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS) is again urging the FDA to remove the “black box” warning from ultrasound contrast agent (UCA) labels, following its filing of a September 2018 citizen petition with the federal agency.
