Volume 26 - Issue 2, 2026

Imaging is entering a more demanding chapter of digital transformation. AI is no longer a distant promise or a standalone pilot sitting at the edge of the workflow. It is increasingly expected to function like any other clinical capability: dependable, auditable and aligned with patient outcomes, service performance and professional accountability. That shift changes the questions leaders need to ask....

Visit Düsseldorf marked the handover from the 3rd London International Health Tourism Expo to Health Tourism Expo Düsseldorf 2026, positioning the city as the next host for a sector built on clinical capacity, connectivity and structured B2B exchange. Taking place on 26–27 June 2026, the expo will combine public engagement with targeted one-to-one meetings, reinforcing Düsseldorf’s role as a credibl...

ScholarTrack positions publishing as a service to the healthcare community, offering journal management, data-informed consultancy and IT support that aim to make editorial workflows dependable, ethical and transparent. Its communication services, from social media strategy to graphical and video abstracts, help journals and research teams extend reach without diluting rigour. End-to-end editorial...

AI is moving from pilots to everyday radiology, improving acquisition, triage, measurement, reporting and workflow. Responsible adoption depends on proven clinical value and safety, radiologist oversight, transparency, fairness and privacy, and governance across the AI lifecycle. Hospitals should validate tools locally, integrate them into PACS/RIS, monitor performance and drift, assign clear clinical owne...

As AI tools proliferate in radiology, healthcare leaders face a critical strategic choice: treat AI as scattered point solutions or build it as foundational infrastructure. This article provides a framework for imaging executives to transform AI from pilot projects into sustainable operational capabilities. Drawing on infrastructure management principles, we outline a practical six-layer approach and a 90-...

AI-guided ultrasound enables diagnostic imaging to move beyond hospitals by embedding expertise directly into portable devices. Physics-informed AI, phase-based imaging analysis and generative enhancement can standardise acquisition, support non-specialist operators and expand access to screening, monitoring and triage across decentralised care environments. AI-guided ultrasound embeds expertise a...

AI in radiology can generate value beyond detection by reorganising workflows and accelerating care pathways. ROI assessment needs SMART objectives, a 6–12-month baseline and full accounting of direct and hidden costs. Evidence suggests profitability is driven mainly by downstream clinical pathways from additional detections, while time savings matter only when converted into billable activity or avoided...

Clinical imaging AI is usually governed up to deployment, yet performance can erode after go-live as populations shift, scanners are upgraded, workflows change and clinicians adapt. These changes can drive drift that accumulates without obvious failures. Treating AI as clinical infrastructure calls for ongoing stewardship: continuous surveillance, structured clinician feedback, planned recalibration and cl...

AI is moving from pilot to core infrastructure in medical imaging, improving acquisition, reconstruction, triage, detection and measurement to boost speed, consistency and diagnostic confidence. It is expanding into predictive analytics and foundation models that combine multiple indications and multimodal data. Regulation is tightening under the EU AI Act and FDA lifecycle approaches, while interoperabili...

Moscow’s health system embeds AI in radiology through digitalisation and URIS, linking imaging equipment, staff and workflows. Use spans from COVID-19 chest CT support to broader detection services and mammography double reading under compulsory insurance. The Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine provides evaluation, trials and registration, and develops standards, datasets and a maturity matrix. MosM...

United Imaging Healthcare entered France in April 2023 and established a French entity in 2024 to reinforce long-term commitment. The portfolio is positioned around high quality results, consistent usability across modalities and AI-enabled performance including, for example, the reconstruction algorithm DELTA for CT, leading to reduction in iodine contrast use. United Imaging Healthcare entered F...

Generative AI reshapes medical education and healthcare management in a fast-moving VUCA environment, shifting focus from model comparisons to practical utility. Prompt-driven tools can democratise development of calculators, virtual labs, SOP-based simulators and simple imaging or ECG analysts. Benefits include accessibility and cost efficiency, while key risks include hallucinations, bias, validation dem...

Safeguarding failures in youth performance sport are rarely isolated misconduct and more often predictable system design problems. Children cannot meaningfully consent to long-term risk, so adults and institutions must carry responsibility, not infer safety from enthusiasm or silence. Governance should set limits on training exposure, ensure independent decisions when fatigue or injury appears and provide...

Prof. Mathias Goyen’s book What I Didn’t Learn in Medical School reflects on the “invisible curriculum” of medicine — leadership, resilience, judgement and communication — often learned only through experience. It explores how physicians navigate responsibility, emotional strain and system pressures while maintaining professional meaning, offering perspective for students, clinicians and health...

The book Value-Based Public Procurement: Guide to the Procurement of Medical Devices presents a practical manual for value-based procurement of medical devices and turns EU and Spanish rules into usable steps. Value is framed beyond price through outcomes, patient experience, life-cycle costs and social and environmental criteria. A five-phase process is set out and supported with clauses, matrices, checkl...