July 21, 2021 — As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into clinical practice, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is launching its Imaging AI Certificate program to deliver a pathway for radiologists to understand and learn how to apply AI to their radiology practices. The program will launch in Fall 2021.

Beyond its current and potential benefits in a growing number of clinical use cases, workflow-integrated artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling a broader data-driven approach to the practice of radiology itself.

July 20, 2021 — In response to consecutive weeks of proposed Medicare payment cuts to radiation oncology cancer care, Thomas J. Eichler, M.D., FASTRO, Chair of American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), issued the following statement:

July 19, 2021 — Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed cancer and a leading cause of death by cancer in Australian men. Early detection is key to successful treatment but men often dodge the doctor, avoiding diagnosis tests until it's too late.

July 19, 2021 — The American College of Radiology Association (ACRA) has established the Scope-of-Practice (SOP) Fund to safeguard patients and patient access to radiologist expertise by fighting state and federal non-physician SOP expansion legislation. The new SOP fund, with its initial $225,000 in funding, will be used in conjunction with state radiological societies to proactively educate lawmakers and counter future scope threats to patient safety.

July 16, 2021 — Canon Medical Systems USA is joining forces with Cleerly in a strategic partnership to support simple and streamlined adoption of cardiac computed tomography (CT). Together, the companies aim to support broader adoption of cardiac CT for the diagnosis and triage of heart disease, including incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve both the imaging and automate the post processing of datasets.

July 16, 2021 — Positrigo, a company developing nuclear medical imaging devices to advance functional imaging, today announced that the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund) awarded the company during this year’s funding cycle with EUR 1.5 million to top up the second tranche of Positrigo’s series A and committed to inve

July 16, 2021 — Volpara has recently been granted another patent by the European Patent Office, raising the total number of patents for the New Zealand-based health tech company to 98. This latest patent, effective across 25 European countries, outlines the Volpara method of image quantification, used in multiple instances across the Volpara Breast Health Platform product suite.

July 16, 2021 —According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), return to routine screening for BI-RADS 3 lesions on supplemental automated whole-breast US (ABUS) substantially reduces the recall rate, while being unlikely to result in adverse out

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