Alex Podlaski MD

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

Without radiology services, beleaguered hospital system forced to temporarily close 2 EDs The challenges occurred after Crozer Health's previous longtime radiology services provider, Southeast Radiology Ltd., shuttered in June.

Here’s an example of how important #Radiology is to hospitals/healthcare:

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#MedSky #RadSky

#AI can do some amazing things in #radiology and medicine but its skills in generating radiology themed thanksgiving images are still pretty questionable.

#HappyThanksgiving

We are seeing an increase in “for-profit” medical institutions. From hospitals to hospice centers, if the bottom line is the only thing that matters, that means patients suffer.

#MedSky #RadSky

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The panic whenever I’d see a question about k-space on the boards.

3 radiology tech companies make Deloitte’s ‘Fast 500’ with revenue growth of 770% or more Rad AI grabbed the highest ranking, at #19 on the list, achieving 8,710% revenue growth between 2020 and 2023, followed by Aidoc and PocketHealth.

#AI in #medicine & #radiology is only going to accelerate. I’ve used Aidoc and can absolutely understand why their revenue growth over 3 years (2020-2023) was over %1500. Powerful tools that help make healthcare better for patients.

#MedSky #RadSky

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Love this feature of @bsky.app. Would love to be added as well

Yeah X has gotten worse and worse. Now the default posts you see when you pull up the app is For You rather than the accounts you actually follow. Everything about it is getting more and more toxic. On here though, ☀️. Hopefully more people in the community make the switch and #MedSky & #RadSky

Overall, I think it makes sense that younger physicians value work/life balance so highly in comparison. While the focus of the job should always be patient care, our generation realizes that great patient care is not mutually exclusive to great self/family care.

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9) The expansion of #Al in medicine is allowing more physicians to have an entrepreneurial role in developing technologies that improve patient care. This can allow them to supplement their income outside of the hospital or pivot their career altogether.

8) The interconnectedness of today's world makes it easier for physicians to compare their job to those of friends/ colleagues across the country. It's much more common for one to switch jobs early in their career if it isn't in line with their personal or professional goals.

7) Younger physicians have grown up in an age where it's rightfully more acceptable to openly discuss and prioritize mental health, including one's own.

6) We, as a society, have become more aware of the effects that constant stress and lack of sleep have on an individual throughout their lives and are doing what we can to combat the effects through prevention.

5) Young physicians have seen many other industries increase their focus on work/life balance and are less willing to accept the tired platitude "well I had suffer through it, so you should too".

4) More young physicians are hospital/ system employed. Since they don't directly share in the costs/profits of private practice ownership, they don't feel the burden of needing to work longer hours to enhance the financial stability of the practice.

3) The rise of social media misinformation has created more misguided public distrust in the medical system as a whole which then puts physicians in a more constant position of acting as educators against disinformation. This increases the rate of burnout.

2) The culture of medicine has shifted to be more defensive in regards to practice patterns and the ramifications of a more litigious society. This contributes to a generalized over-utilization of medical. resources, stretching thin an already anemic physician workforce.

Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That’s Not the Job. Physicians for generations accepted being at the mercy of their pagers. Now, many are questioning medicine’s workaholic culture.

This WSJ article has been making its way around the internet but it highlights some interesting points on how younger #physicians tend to value work/life balance as critical in their careers as compared to older generations.

Some additional thoughts:

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#MedSky #RadSky

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From my experience, absolutely. Plenty of AI tools are already used to help radiologists become faster and more accurate. The long-told scare story that AI is going to take over radiology and make radiologists obsolete isn’t true. But I think radiologists need to be more involved in AI development.

Massachusetts Radiological Society Celebrates Enactment of Breast Screening Legislation Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed HB 4918, the Act Relative to Medically Necessary Breast Screenings and Exams for Equity and Early Detection, into law Nov. 18. The new law mandates that beg...

Now that HB 4918 has been passed in MA, insurers must cover supplemental screening, diagnostic breast exams, digital breast tomosynthesis, MRIs and ultrasounds without patient cost-sharing. Huge news for patients’ access to vital screening and diagnostic imaging.
#RadSky

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Want to see how well #AI is working in real world #Radiology practice?
The ACR released Assess-AI, which “provides algorithm performance monitoring in clinical practice”.

Great tool for making sure AI is working safely and appropriately.
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#RadSky #MedSky

This would probably help some adult patients too 😂

Validating study in Radiology:

#Radiologists are more accurate when provided with patient symptoms/history.

This is why good information transfer between ordering clinicians and radiologists is so vital.

#RadSky #MedSky
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All right let’s get going on here.

I’m a Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist at RWJBarnabas Health in NJ 🩻

Most of my professional interests outside of the hospital are in the fields of healthcare policy, advocacy, and economics. 🏛️

#MedSky #RadSky #Radiology