Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Siemens offers MR breast imaging software

Siemens Healthcare has released new MR breast imaging software.

Survey: Medical imaging should not be subject to Medicare cuts in reform

The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) has released the results of a poll by Zogby International that suggests Americans recognize the value of medical imaging as a critical component of high-quality healthcare.

JACR: Better rad documentation means better reimbursement

Radiologists looking for more success in getting reimbursed for the services they perform should be looking at providing better documentation, according to an article in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Siemens, SurgiVision to develop MRI-guided cardiac EP system

Siemens Healthcare and SurgiVision of Irvine, Calif., have formed an agreement for the co-development and commercialization of a real-time MRI-guided cardiac electrophysiology (EP) system.

KLAS: MRI tops list for planned purchases; imaging vendors ranked

Although a third of healthcare providers plan to continue a freeze on all imaging equipment purchases in the midst of a tough economy, many more are once again looking to buy--with MR equipment topping the list of planned purchases--according to a new report from market research firm KLAS.

Radiology: Diffusion-weighted MRI promising for ureteral obstruction diagnosis

Diffusion-weighted MRI allows for the noninvasive detection of changes in renal perfusion and diffusion during acute unilateral ureteral obstruction, according to a study in this months issue of Radiology.

Study: fMRI helps ID development of schizophrenia

In a functional MRI (fMRI) study, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University in New York City have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest stages of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, according to findings published Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

ACR launches LI-RADS committee

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has created a Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) committee with the objective of standardizing reporting and data collection for CT and MR imaging surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Around the web

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."

With generative AI coming into its own, AI regulators must avoid relying too much on principles of risk management—and not enough on those of uncertainty management.

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