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While clinician burnout following the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely documented, a recent survey of independent physicians across California, conducted by Altais, in partnership with California Medical Association and Brown & Toland Physicians, indicates that, in California, the news is not all bad

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News | Teleradiology | June 18, 2021
California Physicians Weigh In On Telemedicine
June 18, 2021—While clinician burnout following the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely documented, a recent survey of...
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AI-powered natural language understanding and other innovations now generate structured data from unstructured narrative text, deliver contextual clinical guidance when most helpful during the reporting workflow, provide quality and accuracy checks, connect disparate systems with synchronous data exchange and reduce workflow interruptions.
Sponsored Content | Blog | Artificial Intelligence | June 16, 2021
BLOG: Real-time Intelligence in Reporting and Communication
  AI-powered models that augment radiologists’ expertise in interpreting diagnostic imaging often capture the lion’s...
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The impact of deploying artificial intelligence (AI) for radiation cancer therapy in a real-world clinical setting has been tested by Princess Margaret researchers in a unique study involving physicians and their patients.

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News | Artificial Intelligence | June 15, 2021
AI Outperforms Humans in Creating Cancer Treatments, But Do Doctors Trust It?
June 15, 2021 — The impact of deploying artificial intelligence (AI) for radiation cancer therapy in a real-world...
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Prediction performance of DL compared to quantitative measures and Kaplan-Meier curves for quartiles of DL. Image created by Singh et al., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Prediction performance of DL compared to quantitative measures and Kaplan-Meier curves for quartiles of DL. Image created by Singh et al., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

News | SPECT Imaging | June 14, 2021
Deep Learning with SPECT Accurately Predicts Major Adverse Cardiac Events
June 14, 2021 — An advanced artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning can predict major adverse cardiac...
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AI Med will present its Virtual Clinical Series: Imaging Built by Clinicians, for Clinicians, June 29-30, 2021.
News | Artificial Intelligence | June 09, 2021
AI Med Virtual Conference Focuses on AI in Imaging-focused Subspecialties
June 9, 2021 — AI Med will present its Virtual Clinical Series: Imaging Built by Clinicians, for Clinicians, June 29-30...
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the versatile Amadeo R motorized, OR Technology is expanding its product range for the inpatient sector in human medicine.
News | X-Ray | June 08, 2021
Motorized X-ray System for Efficiency and Smooth Workflow
June 8, 2021 — With the versatile Amadeo R now motorized, OR Technology is expanding its product range for the...
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Sponsored Content | Blog | Artificial Intelligence | June 07, 2021
BLOG: Auto-Segmentation in Radiation Oncology: Things to Consider
  Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There...
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Cina Chest is part of Avicenna’s CINA family of AI tools that support the treatment of emergencies, including CINA HEAD, its FDA-cleared and CE-Marked solution that supports the detection and triage of stroke and neurovascular emergencies.
News | Artificial Intelligence | June 03, 2021
AI Triage Solution for Deadly Vascular Conditions Receives FDA Clearance and CE Mark
June 3, 2021 — Medical imaging AI specialist Avicenna.AI announced that it has received certification in the United...
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In addition to enabling the Minneapolis VAHCS to double patient scheduling productivity, the collaboration has resulted in an increase in radiology scheduling efficiency from 14 days to 1 day, on average, a 75% improvement. Foundations has also increased the consistency in workflow processes and results and has enabled the organization to achieve a 100% paperless order-to-day-of-procedure workflow.
News | Enterprise Imaging | June 03, 2021
VA Minneapolis Health Care System Doubles Radiology Scheduling Efficiency and Physician Productivity by Implementing Electronic Protocoling
June 3, 2021 —HealthLevel, Inc., innovator of Foundations, a business operations analytics platform for healthcare...
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Chest X-rays used in the COVID-Net study show differing infection extent and opacity in the lungs of COVID-19 patients. Image courtesy of University of Waterloo

Chest X-rays used in the COVID-Net study show differing infection extent and opacity in the lungs of COVID-19 patients. Image courtesy of University of Waterloo

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | June 03, 2021
Helping Doctors Manage COVID-19
June 3, 2021 — Artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is...
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International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra will install its solution for digital pathology at Institut Curie, one of the most recognized and prestigious cancer centers in France.
News | Enterprise Imaging | May 24, 2021
Prestigious French Cancer Center Institut Curie Digitizes Pathology with Solution from Sectra
May 24, 2021 — International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra will install its solution for digital...
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Part of a major software upgrade that facilitates the implementation of new cloud-based imaging services
News | PACS | May 21, 2021
Laurel Bridge Software Announces Support for RESTful DICOMweb
May 21, 2021— Laurel Bridge Software, a provider of imaging software solutions that enable health systems to...
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Carestream selects HPE GreenLake Cloud Services to power transformative artificial intelligence-as-a-service (AIaas)
News | Artificial Intelligence | May 20, 2021
Carestream Accelerates Development and Delivery of AI Applications for Medical Imaging
May 20, 2021 — Carestream Health is transforming and accelerating the way it develops and delivers AI applications for...
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Like many other healthcare providers across the country, Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider with 17 imaging centers across New York, saw a surge in COVID-19 patients at the start of the pandemic in 2020
Sponsored Content | Blog | Enterprise Imaging | May 17, 2021
BLOG: Remote Reading Positions Northwell Health for Success During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
  Like many other healthcare providers across the country, Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare...
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The Radiological Society of North American announced that RSNA21 will be back — live — this November in Chicago
News | RSNA | May 17, 2021
RSNA Annual Meeting Returns to Chicago in 2021
May 17, 2021 — The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) announced today that 10,378 scientific and educational...
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Inc. (HIMSS) 2021 Conference, scheduled for August 9-13 in Las Vegas, will be one of the first to take a step back to normalcy

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News | HIMSS | May 17, 2021
HIMSS 2021 to Return in August, Vaccinations Required
May 17, 2021 — It looks like in-person conferences are making a comeback. The Healthcare Information and Management...
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Chest X-ray from patient severely ill from COVID-19, showing (in white patches) infected tissue spread across the lungs. Image courtesy of Nature Publishing or npj Digital Medicine

Chest X-ray from patient severely ill from COVID-19, showing (in white patches) infected tissue spread across the lungs. Image courtesy of Nature Publishing or npj Digital Medicine

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | May 14, 2021
AI Tool Uses Chest X-ray to Differentiate Worst Cases of COVID-19
May 14, 2021 — Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up to...
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Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare has potential to transform medical decision-making and treatment, but AI algorithms must be thoroughly tested and continuously monitored to avoid unintended consequences to patients. In JAMA Network Open, Regenstrief Institute President Peter Embí, M.D., calls for algorithmovigilance (a term he coined for scientific methods and activities relating to evaluation, monitoring, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of algorithms in healthcare) to address

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare has potential to transform medical decision-making and treatment, but AI algorithms must be thoroughly tested and continuously monitored to avoid unintended consequences to patients. In JAMA Network Open, Regenstrief Institute President Peter Embí, M.D., calls for algorithmovigilance (a term he coined for scientific methods and activities relating to evaluation, monitoring, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of algorithms in healthcare) to address inherent biases in healthcare algorithms and their deployment. Image courtesy of Regenstrief Institute

News | Artificial Intelligence | May 14, 2021
Eliminating Bias from Healthcare AI Critical to Improve Health Equity
May 14, 2021 — Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare has the potential to transform medical decision-making...
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News | Artificial Intelligence | May 13, 2021
Laurel Bridge Software Collaborates with Herman Oosterwijk to Develop New Educational Content
May 13, 2021 — Laurel Bridge Software, a provider of imaging software solutions that enable health systems to...
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Carestream Health has released Smart Noise Cancellation (SNC), a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology that greatly improves image quality — producing images that are significantly clearer than with standard processing.
News | Artificial Intelligence | May 12, 2021
Carestream Advances X-ray Image Quality with Smart Noise Cancellation
May 12, 2021 — Carestream Health has released Smart Noise Cancellation (SNC), a groundbreaking artificial intelligence...
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