New research indicates that there is significant reader variability in COVID classifications among different specialties when chest X-rays alone are the diagnostic tool of choice.

The radiologist involved in the incident indicated that the department’s burdensome workload resulted in reduced reading times, saying that this made their departmental standard of double reading scans “virtually unattainable."

“Without a clear reference standard technique that optimizes patient outcomes, device selection is based on availability and physician-driven selection, which can substantially impact procedural costs,” authors of a new cost analysis in Clinical Radiology stated.

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) and William Osler Health System (Osler) have signed a contract to expand their orthopaedic solution to include radiology imaging, breast imaging, and Sectra’s vendor-neutral archive (VNA), scaling into a new enterprise imaging agreement. This expansion will enable efficient workflows and collaboration to provide high-quality patient care across the Peel and North Etobicoke regions of Ontario, Canada. 

Konica Minolta Healthcare Continues to Transform X-ray, Introducing New Systems Featuring Dynamic Digital Radiography at RSNA 2022.

Experts are calling for strategies to improve follow-up adherence among individuals who have positive lung cancer screenings after a new analysis revealed low rates of compliance. 

Bhvita Jani, research manager, Signify Research, explains some key trends and technology advances in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) market leading into the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 meeting. 

Signify Research outlines several key technologies and trends in MRI to look for at the Radiological Society of North America 2022 meeting.

In a new paper in Radiology, experts explain how the use of artificial intelligence to identify lesion subtypes could benefit both clinics and patients. 

Though it is not yet clear why some COVID patients develop thyroiditis and some do not, researchers maintain that their findings “support the hypothesis of a direct thyroid gland involvement in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.”