AI Autocorrect | A DBT Settlement | Capillary Imaging
“Garbage in, Cabbage out.” Australian radiologist, Luke Oakden-Rayner, in his review of Stanford’s CheXNet AI paper, suggesting that although the AI system’s training labels were flawed,…
Freemium Screening | 600k X-Rays | A Call to End Shielding
“You can’t fly back from an extended mission to get a CAT scan,” University of Washington emergency physician, Dr. M. Kennedy Hall, sharing the background behind…
Ultrasound Age
“. . .where’s the ROI? Show me that that’s really going to help.” Joe Marion of Healthcare Integration Strategies, suggesting in a recent Healthcare Informatics interview…
Average Burnout
“This is gibberish, totally meaningless, a foreign language to me,” Frustrated potential patient, Sara Stovall, in a recent New York Times story on how federally-required online…
It’s the Platform, Stupid
“The majority of calls to a reading room do not need to be answered by a radiologist, or at least not immediately,” University of Iowa Hospitals…
Unnecessary Imaging
“The specialty of diagnostic radiology may thus need to change focus: instead of training radiologists primarily to read images, they may need to be trained as…
Emergency Chest CT’s Amazing Growth
“If bedside ultrasound really is the stethoscope of the 21st century, as so many have suggested, perhaps we should use it as such. I’m not aware…
ED Imaging’s Diagnostic Cascade
“We recognize that radiology practices across the United States are facing increasing pressure to abandon the private practice of medicine.” Covalent Radiology president, Peter Ricci, MD,…
Komori Calls Timeout
“It is somewhat paradoxical to use the words ‘small data’ or ‘explainable’ to describe a study that used deep learning . . .” Harvard graduate student,…