When it comes to interpreting biliary ultrasound scans, there’s not a lot of discrepancy between sonographers offering preliminary reads and radiologists giving final interpretations. 

Another day, another future-looker prognosticating radiology’s downfall due to the rise of the AI robots. 

When billionaire entrepreneurs, investors and technologists talk, people listen. Vinod Khosla is all of those things—and he’s predicting the imminent demise of radiology at the hands of AI algorithms. 

The hospital in Western Canada that had to have thousands of radiology reads reinterpreted has “all but completed” the do-overs, according to a reporter-blogger at the Vancouver Sun. 

CMS’s Quality Payment Program (QPP), which went live with the 2015 enactment of MACRA, represents the biggest single development in U.S. healthcare since President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law in 1965.

Reston, VA — The newest release of ACR Appropriateness Criteria® covers 230 topics with more than 1,100 clinical indications.

Using natural language processing technology and IBM’s Watson, a team of interventional radiologists at UCLA has created a “virtual radiologist” chatbot to field questions from clinicians when an actual i-rad isn’t instantly available for a quick consultation. 

Echoing an alarm sounded from U.K. neighbor Scotland last month, a radiology association in Northern Ireland is letting it be known that nearly a quarter of the region’s radiologist posts are vacant.