Healthcare
Forbes Announces States with the Highest and Lowest Costs for Healthcare
A Forbes Advisor study of the 50 states and the District of Columbia utilized 11 metrics from the Kaiser Family Foundation data to determine the states with the highest and lowest healthcare costs. Healthcare costs continue to rise for Americans; in 2020, the average cost of healthcare per person averaged $10,000. Almost half (44%) of…
Read MoreHazardous Attitudes and their Role in Radiology Oncology
A recent study published in the November edition of Advanced in Radiation Oncology, the American Society of Radiation Oncology’s scientific journal, revealed lower levels of hazardous attitudes (HA) in radiology oncologists compared to neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons. The study, led by Nadia Saeed, BA, and Adriana Blakaj, MD, PhD, both of Yale, adapted a method…
Read MoreUS Radiology Faces Class Action Lawsuit after Data Breach
proposed class action suit has been filed against US Radiology Specialists (USRS) over a data breach occurring in December 2021. Plaintiffs Ariann J-Hanna and Nicole Pyle, residents of Tucson, AZ, claimed “individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated” that USRS did not fulfill their responsibility to keep secure and protect sensitive patient…
Read MoreImaging Can Help Emergency Room Radiologists Detect Signs of Elder Abuse
Emergency room radiologists can be the missing link when it comes to identifying elder abuse — especially if they are skilled in detecting “mechanism mismatch.” Dr. Mihan Lee, PhD, corresponding author, and his colleagues from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City report, “The radiographic finding of a ‘mechanism mismatch,’ that is, an injury or…
Read MoreRecruitment Retention and Skills – Rural America’s Radiology Challenge
The ACR and the SIR, working together in a joint task force, recently made recommendations in the form of a consensus document to expand access to image-guided procedures for patients living in rural areas or served by small, independent IR practices. Researchers Laura Findeiss, MD, of Emory Healthcare and Tim Swan, MD, of Marshfield Clinic…
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