Nov. 1, 2024 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced a significant adjustment to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS). Under the new policy, CMS will unpackage and pay separately for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals with per-day costs exceeding $630, removing financial barriers that have long hindered patient access to essential nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures.

Oct 31, 2024 —Sirona Medical recently added added nine new radiology practices to its Unify platform. Among them are Kansas Imaging Consultants, Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg, Diagnostic Medical Group of Southern California, Cascaid Health, Newport Diagnostic Center, and Jacobson Memorial Hospital.

Nov. 4, 2024  — Volpara Health has announced a new contract with the U.S. Defense Health Agency (DHA) valued at $7.3 million over five years. The contract will see Volpara's Patient Hub, an advanced mammography reporting, cancer risk assessment and patient tracking system, deployed across DHA's military health system. The goal is to modernize breast cancer screening and patient management for military personnel and their families.

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Blue Earth Therapeutics Ltd, recently announced further positive developments for its novel investigational radioligand therapies. Enrollment of patients in the Phase 1 trial of Lutetium (177Lu) rhPSMA-10.1 Injection was completed in July.

Oct. 29, 2024 — NewVue and Enlitic recently announced a bi-directional strategic partnership that will leverage the proprietary AI algorithms of both companies to automate data standardization in radiology, solving a long-standing challenge faced by healthcare organization, eliminating the need for manual data normalization and transforming key areas such as PACS viewer hanging protocols, dictation system template selection, worklist case assignment and AI study analysis orchestration.

Oct. 23 , 2024 — Lunit  recently announced the findings from two large-scale studies evaluating its AI-powered mammography solution, Lunit INSIGHT MMG. The studies conducted by researchers at the Cancer Registry of Norway and Odense University Hospital in Denmark demonstrate the technology's potential to significantly improve breast cancer screening programs.

Oct. 22, 2024 — Avandra, the largest federated network for medical imaging and clinical data, today launched out of stealth.

Avandra’s network aims to organize global medical images and create a data ecosystem for research and innovation. It uses industry-leading de-identification and tokenization solutions to securely deliver aggregated, multimodal data to power the future of health.

Oct. 21, 2024 — Gesund.ai, the clinical AI validation company, has announced the open sourcing of a comprehensive library of evaluation methodologies and frameworks to help developers and users address AI performance and potential bias across patient cohorts for the FDA-regulated AI solutions on the market.

Oct. 21, 2024 — Siemens Healthineers recently received Food and Drug Administration clearance for two new features in its syngo.PET Cortical Analysis software application that use positron emission tomography (PET) to measure protein deposits in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

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