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Options for choosing transgender gender sex or gender choice are now offered in most PACS and RIS systems.

Radiology departments are adapting to offer inclusive environments for transgender individuals

Most radiological hardware and software systems now offer gender options beyond female/male classification, a recent analysis shows.

Leslee Shaw, PhD, and former presidents of both SCCT and ASNC discusses the role of CT and FFR-CT in the 2021 chest pain guidelines. Leslie Shaw.

VIDEO: Cardiac CT now recommended as a front-line chest pain assessment tool

Leslee Shaw, PhD, director of the Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and former president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), explains the role of cardiac computed tomography (CT) in the recent 2021 chest pain guidelines.

Clinician and physician burnout is fueling the large numbers of resignations in healthcare, which are fueled by a handful of factors, including adequate staffing and being bogged down in non-clinical work, especially with inefficient EMRs.

7 reasons clinicians are leaving jobs in the era of the great resignation

Two years into the pandemic, healthcare organizations in the U.S. are dealing with major staffing shortages. Here are some of the top reasons why clinicians leave their jobs.

Chest X-ray. Using an explainable artificial intelligence (AI) model, researchers were recently able to accomplish highly accurate labeling on large datasets of publicly available chest radiograph X-rays..

Explainable AI model accurately auto-labels chest X-rays from open access datasets

A model that can achieve accuracy in line with that of radiologists when labeling open-access datasets could be a key factor to overcoming limitations of artificial intelligence implementation, researchers explained in Nature Communications.

Edward Fry, MD, is the 2022-23 ACC president.

Q&A: New ACC President Edward Fry discusses the past, present and future of cardiology

Fry joined us for an exclusive interview, discussing lessons learned during the pandemic, some key ways to address physician burnout and much more.

The ASNC is one of several medical imaging societies asking Congress to repeal the appropriate use criteria (AUC) criteria mandate. They say it poses issues for clinicians and is becoming outdated by changes in CMS payment systems. The AUC requirements call for documentation using CVMS authorized software in order to show advanced imaging such as nuclear and CT is justified, or else Medicare payments might be withheld.

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology urges Congress to speed prior authorizations, repeal AUC mandate

Over the past few weeks, members of ASNC’s Health Policy Committee have held meetings with their members of Congress.

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