The specialty needs to contribute more to the electronic health record to keep pace with data-driven care delivery, one informatics expert said during SIIM's virtual meeting.

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19. 

Orthopedic providers judged three different knee MRI report templates based on readability, usefulness and quality. The results were published in Academic Radiology.

More can be done to change this trend, argued authors of a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Second opinions were taken under advisement in a majority of instances, but it remains unclear why some fell by the wayside.

Many institutions are making radiology reports available via online portals, but can patients actually understand the information in them?

“Although one would think that the radiology report plays a critical role in patient care, few studies have determined whether radiology reports are actually viewed by referrers," Sadaf Sahraian, with Johns Hopkins Medical Institution said.

A model utilizing natural language processing and machine learning can accurately detect radiology reports that demand follow-up imaging, reported researchers of a new study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.