The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System's Department of Radiology outfitted many of its rads with remote reading in order to promote social distancing, sharing their experience in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

The more than 19,000 users of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization can now quickly share images, regardless of provider or electronic health record.

A small survey found a majority of rad practices leveraged internal resources to complete outside exam interpretations and plan to continue to do so after the pandemic.

Volunteers of an online survey prefer structured chest radiograph reports with less jargony language, and radiologists should take note, experts said in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Three imaging experts have fleshed out the “need-to-knows” of COVID-19’s impact on teachers and trainees in their specialty, interventional radiology.  

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

“In a pandemic of this magnitude, flexibility is paramount for a healthcare system under siege by COVID-19,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said. 

The Radiological Society of North America has rounded up and gathered together its online COVID-19 resources, enabling easy engagement with all things imaging, coronavirus and RSNA.