New York City-based Columbia University has appointed Jasnit Makkar, MD, as chief of its division of emergency radiology. Dr. Makkar joined Columbia’s radiology department in 2016 and previously served as director of the diagnostic radiology residency program from 2021 to…
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Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare recently standardized radiology services across eight recently acquired hospitals in Illinois. When the purchase was finalized in March, Prime committed $250 million to facility upgrades, capital improvements, system upgrades and technology investments. Prime has deployed the…
Children represent less than 1% of publicly available medical imaging data, according to a preprint study published June 10 in MedRxiv. To analyze the inclusion of children’s imaging data, researchers reviewed 181 public medical imaging data sets from The Cancer…
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine debuted its new mobile mammogram van during a free community health fair on July 13. The van — equipped with Siemens’ 3D mammography technology in a private, air-conditioned suite — was made possible by philanthropic donations, and…
One of the country’s largest outpatient imaging providers, US Radiology Specialists, is taking a bold step forward this year with a new CEO and rebrand to Lumexa Imaging. The rebrand, announced July 8, signals more than a cosmetic change —…
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U.S. Radiology Specialists, a physician-owned outpatient medical imaging provider, has rebranded to Lumexa Imaging. The new name is “rooted in the concept of illumination,” Melissa Weston, senior vice president of marketing for Lumexa Imaging, said in a July 8 news…
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health Care has added up to $1 million annually to its margins by changing its radiology follow-up care workflow. “This is one of those rare clinical operations where better patient care and financial return align —…
Eliminating a $45 out-of-pocket fee for 3D mammography, also called digital breast tomosynthesis, increased utilization of the procedure by 7.8%, according to a study published June 19 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Researchers from University of…
After standardizing its second-opinion workflow, the radiology department at Columbus-based The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center achieved a reimbursement success rate of 91.9%, according to a study published June 24 in the Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine. Researchers…
Ultrasound can be used to detect early-developing insulin resistance in adults with obesity, according to a study published June 12 in the Journal of Ultrasound Medicine. Here are three things to know from the study: Read the full study here.