Did you know that about 10% of the $2.6 billion spent on healthcare annually goes toward waste and fraud? According to a statement released by Verizon, “This fraud comes in many forms, including falsified billings, false coding of services, billing for services not delivered or excessive, and billing separately for elements that should be […]
Category: Healthcare
How Smartphone Apps Help Ordering Physicians Choose the Right Test
Did you know that 5% of total U.S adults are misdiagnosed every year? For medical practitioners, choosing the right imaging test with regard to a patient’s preliminary symptoms can be challenging. However, new research suggests that Smartphone apps can assist physicians in getting it right. New research from Baylor College of Medicine says mobile applications […]
First-Ever Color X-Ray Images are Coming
Imagine, instead of a typical black and white X-ray picture, a physician reviews color images to identify the tissues being scanned! The color X-ray imaging technique is capable to produce more accurate and clearer pictures, assisting the doctors in giving a more precise diagnosis to their patients. X-ray color images are coming into reality; thanks […]
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Ruled Unconstitutional
At the face of huge protests nationwide, a federal judge in Texas strikes down former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) declaring it is unconstitutional to mandate people to buy health insurance. U.S. Court Judge Reed O’Connor issued the decision, arguing that the healthcare law is inconsistent with the Constitution because it mandates having […]
How to Deal With Radiology’s Costly Deductibles Health Plan Problems
The fast-growing popularity of High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) provide the health insurance enrollees the option to price-shop for healthcare. While HDHP is gaining prominence due to its low premium cost, it poses a threat to the radiology practice, especially the ones offering imaging solutions through hospitals. According to the authors of a new study published […]
Why Radiologists Need Machine Learning Curriculum to Improve Safety, Workflow Efficiency
The rapid growth of machine learning has brought a major surge in the field of radiology, transforming diagnostic operations and imaging applications with advanced algorithms and processes. However, radiologists and imaging experts are only aware of the advantages of harnessing machine learning. They lack knowledge of the challenges that come with embracing the technology, how […]
How Radiologists Can Minimize Distractions, Reduce Burnout and Become More Efficient
Burnout is a major issue that affects radiologists more than medical practitioners in any other specialty. Several factors contribute to exhaustion in the medical profession but radiologists face the major impact because of great pressure to perform more in lesser time. Bureaucratic workload, lack of autonomy in their field, and their compensation related directly to […]
FDA Grants Clearance to AI-Powered Imaging System
Subtle Medical Inc., a California-based medical device company, has received clearance 510(k) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its SubtlePET solution. SubtlePET is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered advanced imaging system that allows the healthcare providers to improve image quality with the aid of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans. This would lead […]
Five Challenges Deep Learning Faces in Medicine
Deep learning in healthcare is a revolution that helps uncover the hidden patterns and opportunities in clinical data, allowing medical practitioners to provide better treatment to their patients. However, like any other technology solution, deep learning techniques face numerous challenges that should be overcome before it can be implemented in mission-critical medical applications. What is […]
Transparency and Change in the FDA Approval Process
FDA Transparency Initiative, which was launched back in the year 2009, has started achieving the desired results. The main goal of launching the initiative was to make the agency’s decision-making, procedures and actions more transparent and hence, more useful and comprehensible. In other words, it is aimed at disclosing FDA’s information in a controlled manner […]