Patient portals are primed for a breakout, with Meaningful Use playing no small role, but as they go from a buzzword at health IT conferences to ubiquitous tools familiar to all patients, there’s a question of what a portal should actually look like. At the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, presented by the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), a major discussion, possibly playing out along generational lines, is how much a portal should resemble social media.

A protocol that employs initial CAD review of CT colonography data followed by a second read by the radiologist delivers diagnostic performance similar to unassisted interpretation by a single radiologist, while boosting efficiency, according to a study published online April 29 in Radiology.

Lesion spiculation may hinder breast cancer detection, according to a study published in the May issue of Academic Radiology. The study, which identified mammographic features that reduce detection, offers insights for radiology training programs and CAD algorithm development.

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), a health IT nonprofit in the Empire State, has organized the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, asking developers to build innovative and user-friendly portals for patient information access.

An MIT postdoctoral student has coupled MR images of amputees’ limbs and 3D computing to re-engineer the fit between prosthetic limbs and the body, which could address a major issue of discomfort for amputees.

Agfa HealthCare announces that it will establish a new subsidiary in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Called Agfa HealthCare Saudi Arabia Company Ltd., this legal entity will be formally launched at a press conference to be held on May 13 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Development of thalamic and central atrophy as measured by MR may accurately predict which patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) will convert to clinically definite multiple sclerosis (CDMS) over a two-year period, according to a study published April 23 in Radiology. The findings could change how physicians view MS and how drugs are developed, the researchers noted. 

Like a pair of dancers sheathed in blue, two chromosomes take the cell’s center stage in this scene from the elegant—and usually perfectly performed—process of mitosis.