Radiologists use visual pattern matching in much the same way referring physicians visually assess their patients. The ...
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Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
February 17, 2016
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Fatigue. Bias. Trouble keeping up with peer-reviewed literature. These can spell trouble for radiologists. But machines ...
February 10, 2016
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Time is brain. The longer a brain injury goes untreated, the higher the chance of permanent damage or death. And no ...
February 03, 2016
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Radiology led the way as the first medical specialty to demonstrate that digital medical records could improve ...
January 27, 2016
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
We have entered the era of the shrewd practitioner. It empowers the radiologist who looks ahead pragmatically; who ...
January 19, 2016
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Want to be a super expert in radiology? Join a swarm. A start-up company called Unanimous AI wants to use a computer ...
January 11, 2016
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
It looked bad a half century ago. Real bad. Police dogs lunged at protesters in Alabama; frightened Vietnamese children ...
January 04, 2016
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Go back to the early 1990s and you’ll come across a brilliant, yet fatally flawed, idea. It was called “Evolving Images ...
December 23, 2015
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
While I write a lot about medical imaging technology and how new technology can and should work, it is not often that I ...
December 22, 2015
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
Being an avid student of history, I am always looking for parallels and comparisons in everything I see. For this reason ...
December 21, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Machine learning is already more our lives than many people realize. Smart algorithms complete phrases and correct ...
December 17, 2015
Dave Fornell, ITN Editor
As one of the largest medical shows in the world, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2015 meeting had a ...
December 14, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
There is no greater force today in radiology than the patient. Some might argue that financial issues matter more. But ...
December 02, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
During the eighties and nineties — the heydays of radiology — sexism abounded on the RSNA exhibit floor. Gone today are ...
November 23, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
The 1990s were cast by myth and ambition. Taxi drivers wearing caps hyping digital radiography (DR); banners atop RSNA ...
November 16, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says, “Five beers please.” —One of the world’s geekiest jokes Things ...
November 06, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Not many pharmacists will call up doctors and question their choice of medication. It’s not hard to make a good case for ...
October 30, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
The idea behind clinical decision support (CDS) is simple — ensure that tests or procedures ordered by referring ...
October 23, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
“Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: One .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ ...
October 16, 2015
Greg Freiherr, Industry Consultant
Thinking horses not zebras frames the problem. Details coming from diagnostic tests give physicians the ammunition to ...
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