Radiology

Radiology departments leading the way in artificial intelligence

By Sarah Sarvis Milla, M.D., FAAP, and Hansel J. Otero, M.D., FAAP for AAP News Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in many health care environments and even more so in technology-reliant subspecialties such as radiology. Most radiology departments already deploy complex software to manage increasingly large databases and a completely digital workflow. While…

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Workload fatigue is harming radiology residents’ reporting, declining as the hours, days elapse

By Matt O’ Connor for Health Imaging Diagnostic imaging utilization has increased dramatically over the past few decades, burdening radiologists with heavier workloads and higher burnout rates. This effect has trickled down to residents, as fatigue decreases the quality of their reporting throughout the workday and week. From 1999 to 2010, CT use increased by…

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How Harvard radiologists rapidly adopted a new reporting structure for possible COVID-19 patients

Marty Stempniak for Radiology Business When a patient with possible COVID-19 presents at the radiology department, it can trigger a number of urgent steps that include isolation, testing, strict cleaning protocols and the use of scarce personal protective equipment. Wanting to provide physicians with a clear process to report and launch these next steps, Harvard…

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Researchers at Mount Sinai use AI to detect COVID-19 in lung scans

By Kat Jerich for Healthcare IT News Researchers from New York-based Mount Sinai Health System have combined artificial intelligence, imaging and clinical data to rapidly detect COVID-19 in patients. In a study published this week in Nature Medicine, researchers used AI algorithms in conjunction with chest CT scans and patient history to quickly diagnose patients who…

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AI just as effective as clinicians in diagnostics, study suggests

Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence can detect diseases from medical imaging with the same accuracy as healthcare professionals, according to a systematic review of 82 articles published in The Lancet Digital Health journal Tuesday. However, AI didn’t outperform human diagnosis. In a small subset of the studies comparing AI and clinician diagnostic…

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Cleveland Clinic creating center for AI in healthcare

By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Cleveland Clinic has launched a new center to advance applications for artificial intelligence in healthcare. An initiative of Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Analytics, the Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence will bring together doctors, researchers, data scientists and others to develop clinical use cases for AI and machine learning…

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Combining highly accurate, cloud-based speech recognition into CLICKVIEW Digital Radiology Informatics Reporting will create faster, easier and more accurate documentation

Dolbey and Company Inc. (Dolbey) Best in KLAS for Speech Recognition 2012-2016 and Category Leader – Front-end Speech Recognition for Imaging 2018 announced today that they have partnered with CLICKVIEW the leading provider of Digital Radiology Informatics reporting with Dolbey’s cloud-based speech recognition solution, Fusion Narrate™ powered by nVoq™. This partnership provides CLICKVIEW the ability…

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Dolbey is Once Again Recognized by KLAS Research for Speech Recognition and Computer-Assisted Coding

KLAS Research is a healthcare information technology data and insights company providing the industry with accurate, honest and impartial research on the software and services used by providers and payers worldwide.  Every year, KLAS collects evaluations from healthcare providers to rank vendors across several categories.  This year, Dolbey is honored to announce that KLAS has…

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Healthcare CEO Faces Life in Prison for Fraud That Led to 2 Patient Deaths

By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review The CEO and co-owner of a Maryland diagnostics company is facing life in prison after a federal jury convicted him of two counts of healthcare fraud that resulted in death, according to the Department of Justice. On Wednesday, a federal jury found 67-year-old Rafael Chikvashvili, PhD, guilty of healthcare…

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OIG Says No Fines for Hospital’s Transcription Service

By Eric Topor from Health Care Daily Report for BNA Dec. 29 — The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General posted an advisory opinion Dec. 29 (No. 15–15) that said it wouldn’t impose sanctions on a hospital’s proposal to provide market rate transcription services for radiology tests performed at the hospital for patients of an unaffiliated…

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