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Interventional radiology [IR] dates back to 1964. In 2020, it is routinely employed in the diagnosis and treatment of an ever-increasing number of health conditions. By combining advanced image-guided techniques, the specialty offers physicians a variety of treatment alternatives to traditional approaches that can take a heavier toll on the patient.

As urgent care centers continue to expand the array of treatment options they provide, where do medical imaging modalities fall in their continuum of services?

Like medical imaging itself, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies have captured the collective imagination of the health care space not only because of their seemingly limitless potential to improve the universal standard of care, but also because of the complementary value they represent to various branches of medicine.

– By Matt Skoufalos – For many years, patient satisfaction in the health care business turned on fundamental questions like whether your medical condition was resolved, or whether you were seen in a timely fashion. In 2020, the concept...

– By Matt Skoufalos – Why is it so hard to get paid for medical imaging services? The shifting landscape of reimbursement is complicated by increased regulation at the federal level, increased resistance at the payer level,...

By Matt Skoufalos As Imaging Support Specialist Chris Bryant was cleaning up some inventory in the biomed shop at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, Illinois, something gave him pause. It was a...

As AI technology continues to develop, clinicians, technologists and device manufacturers are working to resolve challenges around workflow, decision support and the broader questions of how to do so securely, efficiently and ethically.

By Matt Skoufalos Throughout the United States, health care, like many other resources, is unevenly distributed. In eastern Tennessee, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, that truth is plainly spelled out in some of the most...

When you think of the safest and most dangerous areas in the hospital, would you believe they could be the same place?