AI in 2021 | CT + EMR | Bone DBT
“The vaccination rollout, all well-intentioned, hit the perfect storm.” Stanford Medical Center after its vaccine prioritization algorithm skipped over many frontline residents and fellows. Imaging Wire…
Rad Blindness | Philips Prevails | CO-RADS Works
“. . . we need to be doing a lot more testing,” Google Brain scientist, Alex D’Amour, on the underspecification problem that’s creating AI’s real world…
Equal Extenders | Google Responds | Follow the Money
“I hate it.” How Dr. Luke Oakden-Rayner really feels about last week’s paper criticizing Google’s mammography AI study (even though he respects the authors “a lot”).…
CV19 POCUS Network | PE Surge | First Tau Agent
“widespread upheaval in the US health care may lead to a surge of purchases by PE firms of distressed hospitals and other health care firms.” A…
ACR Takes a Stand | COVID-19’s Volume Impact
“ . . . any boards certifying diagnostic radiologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, radiation oncologists, and medical physicists should minimize power imbalance in decision-making between…
Federal Flexibility | Protecting the Techs
“. . . it’s yet another stellar example of the ABR’s heavy-handed tone-deaf approach to just about everything within its tiny little purview” Ben White on…
CV19 AI Works | The SmartBra | Opening the CV19 Bottleneck
“. . . vendors of medical imaging AI were already battling with convincing payers prior to the pandemic, and there is no reason to suspect that…
Magnetized Imaging Breakthrough | CT Contrasts’ Overstated Kidney Risk
“It’s like we can see the tumor breathing.” Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute professor, Kevin Brindle, on the images produced by his team’s new carbon-13 hyperpolarized…
Nanox Goes Big | X-Ray Mutations | Radiology-as-a-Service
“Hold on to your exclamation points. Machine-enabled health care may bring us many benefits in the years to come, but those will be contingent on the…
Fujifilm to Buy Hitachi Imaging | AI Breast Cancer Prediction Breakthrough
“Healthcare is different. When patients receive care, they pay for the services rendered, either directly or through private insurance. So, if someone were to benefit financially…
