There is no denying that the importance of non-physician practitioners in the medical and healthcare industry remains indispensable. Almost every domain of medical services gets impacted by their involvement in more ways than one. Radiology too can benefit from the wholehearted participation of NPPs in this critical medical care domain. Here are a few smart […]
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Lung Cancer Screening Using The Latest Risk Model-Based Model Is More Cost-Efficient Than The Present USPSTF Guidelines
The cancer screening method using low-dose CT helps determine lung cancer more effectively. But who should undergo the process remains the primary question. Currently, the guideline set by USPSTF or U.S. Preventive Services Task Force determines the same. However, a new study has suggested the use of model-dependent studies for it as the latter option […]
Female Radiologists And Physicians Earn 33% Less Than What A Male Practitioner Does
Regardless of the field of work chosen, wage pay disparity exists between male and female workers, the medical practices field is also not an exception. Despite the rapidly progressing socio-economic dynamism, some practices have remained unaltered and need attention. Wage disparity between men and women offering identical services is one of them. Keeping the same […]
Tips for Radiologists to Stay Prepared for Practice Burnout
Burnout is one of the most common global health problems that affect physicians in different medical specialties. But in particular, radiologists are experiencing very high rates of burnouts, and this trend is not expected to end soon. Burnout is a kind of exhaustion, in which the practitioner feels depersonalized and unaccomplished, and compromises his physical […]
Digitized and Data-driven, Drug Development is Posed for a Major Leap Forward
Drug development is all set to become considerably faster, sharper, and better in times to come. With a perfect innovative idea developing around the combination of Big Data, ingestible and wearable sensors, and monitors, with AI-augmented data analytics, there is hope. According to the authors of a piece published in the Harvard Business Review, on […]
PET Brain Scans Help Connect the Dots between CTE, Tackle Football
According to a study published on April 11, 2019, in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), PET brain scans of former NFL players with neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms showed a high level of tau than controls in the brain regions that get typically affected by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The Background Chronic traumatic encephalopathy […]
Do We Need AI Guidelines for Healthcare?
Artificial Intelligence along with other new technologies is making a breakthrough in healthcare and medicine. After the development of some unique guidelines, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) are of certain that AI is the most advanced and effective technology that can boost healthcare. However, before the technology is widely acclaimed […]
EMR: Good or bad for medicine?
Aesop said that we often despise what’s most useful to us, but Aesop also said that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Perhaps, no two quotes could be more relevant to how EMRs and EHRs are impacting healthcare workers. What do doctors and nurses really think? What do the numbers […]
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
The practical limits on consumer-grade computer memory have prevented a large number of application types from entering homes or businesses until the 64-bit barrier was broken. Once it became possible for relatively inexpensive computers to address virtually unlimited amounts of memory, data sets which were too cumbersome for less advanced computers became usable, and new […]