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While the global scientific community worked as one to solve a huge, new problem in real-time, their efforts and discoveries were also frequently undermined by an equally virulent “infodemic.”

At a time when patients’ entire medical histories can be synchronized with high-resolution pictures of their physical tissue itself, imaging has emerged as “a critical partner in clinical care for just about any other specialty, with very few exceptions,” said Dr. Christopher Wald.

From March to June, health care facilities across the United States were shuttered to all non-essential procedures by state order, as the country worked, with mixed results, to respond to the rapidly spreading virus.

– By Matt Skoufalos – Like many other health care specialties, credentialing in the medical imaging field is an indication of technical proficiency, professional expertise and the persistence required to complete a vetted process. Yet...

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.