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During the 2019 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, Konica Minolta Healthcare featured new technology and differentiation in service provision. 24×7 Magazine recently caught up with Kevin Chlopecki, executive vice president of service and operations at Konica Minolta Healthcare, to understand this new technology and its potential applications.
It will come as no surprise to attendees of RSNA 2018 when Vijay M. Rao, MD, officially kicks off the proceedings by homing in on AI and machine learning during her president’s address on Sunday, November 25, at 8:30 a.m. After all, that topic was the talk of McCormick Place last late November and, since then, it’s only grown in importance to the profession.
For the past several years, interventional radiology (IR) has been the fastest-growing division of the radiology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a tertiary medical center in Boston. In fact, by 2014, inpatient treatment requests for IR services at BIDMC had increased so much that the division’s standard operating hours were no longer sufficient.
As x-ray film moved to computed radiography (CR), patients and providers saw tremendous benefits from the resulting enhanced image quality and speed of imaging results. After all, the technology eliminated the likelihood for reshooting an image, therefore lessening the exposure to additional ionizing radiation, reducing costs, and streamlining diagnosis. Later, the advent of digital radiography (DR) ushered in further improvements to image quality, speed, and dose efficiency.
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