Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Do you have an outstanding colleague at your imaging facility? An imaging device or app that you love to use? Or a teacher who made an impact on your career? Nominate them for a Minnies award!
Now in its 15th year, the Minnies give you the chance to voice your opinion about what's right in radiology -- from the researchers who keep our field fresh to the educators who train our best and brightest. You can also nominate products and software, and this year there's even a Best Radiology Mobile App category.
Nominations from our members will be used to create the list of candidates to be voted on by our expert panel in two rounds of balloting over the next few months. Winners will be announced in time for RSNA 2014 in Chicago.
We are also continuing a category launched last year, Best Radiology Image, designed to showcase the incredible advances being made in the use of medical imaging. If you have a great radiology image, enter it today! Learn more about how to nominate your image by clicking here.
For all other Minnies categories, be sure to click here or head on over to minnies.auntminnie.com to submit your nominations. It only takes a few minutes, and you'll be doing yourself and your colleagues a favor.
MICI Q3 data
Are radiology administrators in the U.S. getting more optimistic about their future business prospects? That's what the latest round of data from the Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI), a forward-looking barometer of administrator sentiment, seems to suggest.
MICI tracks the attitudes and opinions of a group of radiology administrators and is produced in collaboration between the MarketTech Group and AHRA, the association for medical imaging management. Past MICI surveys have shown declining optimism since 2012, largely tracking radiology's financial woes.
But the latest MICI numbers offer hope that things could be turning around. Find out what's going on by clicking here, or visit our Imaging Leaders Digital Community at leaders.auntminnie.com.
CT lung screening and false positives
Conventional wisdom is that patients who receive false positives from screening exams undergo enough emotional anguish that such findings should be considered harmful when weighing the pros and cons of screening. But a new report indicates that might not be the case, at least with respect to CT lung cancer screening.
Researchers from Brown University measured anxiety levels among individuals who received what turned out to be false-positive scans in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), the massive study that demonstrated CT's mortality benefit for lung cancer screening.
Surprisingly, the researchers found that anxiety levels in these individuals were no worse than for those who had clear scans. Read more about the findings by clicking here.
Will the study shape the debate over CT lung cancer screening, as skeptics of the procedure cite patient anxiety as a reason for going slow on Medicare reimbursement? Check our CT Digital Community at ct.auntminnie.com for future updates.
