Many radiologists stepped up to do their part for the war effort by staying at their hospital posts and helping the wounded as they started coming in.

The new policy brief for healthcare providers stresses the importance of radiation protection and ethically guided care in medical imaging.

Researchers examined how sharing medical imaging with patients might encourage healthier behaviors, such as smoking cessation, following a healthy diet and increasing physical activity.

Imaging practices more likely to utilize NPPs are in urban areas, larger in size, and have a higher percentage of IR specialists, experts wrote in JACR. 

While informatics and information technology tools are essential, individuals can take a number of steps to improve their day-to-day productivity.

Duke University Medical Center scheduled additional exams for 60% of incidental findings, and many were later diagnosed as serious problems.

If some form of practice consolidation is in your radiology practice’s present or future, you should know that many tactical errors are made around the difficulty of sharing information across disparate legacy PACS packages and other peripheral solutions used by newly conjoining practices, departments or organizations. 

A “lean” system improvement analysis conducted by interventional radiologists at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine in Chapel Hill was able to help streamline workflow and cut technologist and nurse overtime hours by 20 percent and 57 percent, respectively.