Dear AuntMinnie Member,
A long-running case out of Southern California in which the operator of an imaging center company was accused of running a pay-for-patients scheme came to a conclusion this past week, with the CEO convicted of fraud charges by a federal jury. The CEO faces up to 240 years in prison -- read more in our Imaging Leaders Community.
In other news, researchers from Brazil are reporting new findings in infants who were exposed to the Zika virus. They performed cranial ultrasound scans to find that a form of brain injury was more common in these babies compared with those who were not exposed to Zika. Get more stories like this in our Ultrasound Community.
Also, researchers from the University of Washington found that modifying radiology reports on spine imaging exams to include epidemiological information could reduce opioid prescribing, addressing a thorny public health issue.
And a group from Penn State University has reported on a program they implemented that taught medical students about diagnostic errors. The students responded positively to the program, the researchers found.
What if you could offer an imaging exam that screened for both lung cancer and heart disease with one study? It could be possible thanks to a radiomics algorithm that analyzes CT lung screening exams for signs of heart disease, according to a new study in our Advanced Visualization Community.
