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1 month ago | 
auntminnie.com | Davin Korstjens |Joe Constance |Amerigo Allegretto |Will Morton
About half of medical imaging equipment service calls are not fully resolved on the first visit, according to a new report. Analysis of anonymized data by agentic AI software developer Aquant tracked 14 medical imaging service organizations and 6,500 technicians running almost 2 million service events on nearly 300,000 assets.
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1 month ago | 
auntminnie.com | Will Morton |Davin Korstjens |Amerigo Allegretto |Erik L. Ridley
Until recently I had no real idea what a diphthong was. I had the vague notion it was some form of sprocket or perhaps part of an internal combustion engine. You see, Dear Reader, I didn’t have a classical education. When I was at school, "Grammar" was what we called my mother’s mother. I’m therefore a self-taught writer, almost entirely lacking any technical knowledge of English literature. Writing in the vernacular is all I have. But it worked for Hemingway and Vonnegut, so it is good enough for me.
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1 month ago | 
auntminnie.com | Davin Korstjens |Will Morton |Erik L. Ridley
Columbia University researchers in New York City have reported that worsening depression in older adults is related to higher levels of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, specifically the accumulation of tau protein. The finding is from an analysis of 300 participants who underwent multiple F-18 flortaucipir tau PET scans between 2015 and 2022 and suggests depression could be a modifiable risk factor for the disease, noted lead author Daniel Talmasov, MD, and colleagues.
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1 month ago | 
auntminnie.com | Davin Korstjens |Will Morton |Erik L. Ridley
The Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is calling on congressional leaders to oppose cuts to facilities and administration (F&A) costs for research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
auntminnie.com | Liz Carey |Amerigo Allegretto |Maryam Payne |Davin Korstjens
Private equity acquisition is on the rise in radiology, according to an analysis published March 5 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Private equity firms acquired more than 150 radiology practices involving nearly 3,500 locations between 2013 and 2023, according to research performed by Mihir Khunte and Yashaswini Singh, PhD, from Brown University in Providence, RI.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
auntminnie.com | Liz Carey |Amerigo Allegretto |Maryam Payne |Davin Korstjens
Radiology administrators express very high confidence that imaging will grow as a profit center in coming months, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) report for the second quarter of 2025. They also have very high confidence that diagnostic and interventional radiology volumes will grow monthly, with a ranking similar to Q4 2024 results.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
auntminnie.com | Michael J. Cannavo |Erik L. Ridley |Davin Korstjens |Joe Constance
The right to repair medical devices movement is gaining momentum, with all 50 states in the U.S. now addressing the issue through legislation. Among the states with active right to repair legislation in 2025 are Vermont, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Florida, Washington, Texas, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and others, according to repair and service industry advocate Repair.org.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
auntminnie.com | Will Morton |Davin Korstjens |Liz Carey
Gastrointestinal imagers should use high-quality MR enterography for complex inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cases that can't be dealt with using intestinal ultrasound, even though both tests contribute to overall assessment, said an expert leading an advanced course on imaging Crohn's disease at ECR 2025.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
auntminnie.com | Will Morton |Davin Korstjens
Commercial-stage lung MRI medical device developer Polarean Imaging offered a fiscal results update for 2024. Polarean expects to report unaudited revenue for the period (end-December 31) of between $3 million and $3.1 million, which will exceed its previous revenue guidance of $2.5 million to $3 million, it said. It currently has 22 Xenon MRI platform customers. In 2024, sales of its Xenon gas blend cylinders and other consumables increased more than 50% compared with 2023.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
auntminnie.com | Amerigo Allegretto |Davin Korstjens |Erin Stephens |Philip Ward
The success of radiologists participating in the Medicare Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) varies according to practice type and size, with individual radiologists being at a disadvantage, researchers have reported. The findings suggest possible biases and imbalances in the MIPS program that should be addressed, wrote a team led by YoonKyung Chung, PhD, of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, VA.
