Dear AuntMinnie Member,
CHICAGO - Radiology needs to go boldly into the uncertain future of healthcare, according to the opening address at RSNA 2015 today.
That advice, paraphrasing Captain Kirk of "Star Trek" fame, was given by Dr. Ronald Arenson of the University of California, San Francisco, who told RSNA attendees that despite the specialty's challenges, there is still a lot to be optimistic about.
Healthcare's growing demand for evidence-based medicine will build on the type of technologies that radiology has mastered, such as RIS and PACS, Arenson said.
And in a follow-up address, Dr. Darrell Kirch, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, talked about how academic centers can lead the charge in reforming healthcare, through examples such as changing the dominant culture in healthcare enterprises and developing new care models. Read more about today's opening address by clicking here.
In other news from RSNA 2015, Dutch researchers presented results suggesting that nodules detected with CT at interim lung cancer screening carry more than twice the risk of nodules present at the first scan. Get the rest of the story by clicking here.
Also, researchers from New York City presented their work in which FDG-PET/CT discovered significantly more unsuspected distant metastases in patients with newly diagnosed stage III invasive ductal cancer than in those with stage III invasive lobular cancer. The findings suggest that guidelines for staging breast cancer might need to be revised. Learn more by clicking here.
We'll be bringing you more news from Chicago in our RADCast @ RSNA special section, available at rsna.auntminnie.com. And if you want your news even faster, be sure to check out our Twitter feed, @AuntMinnie.
