Stamatia Destounis, MD, FACR, a radiologist and managing partner at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in Rochester, New York, and chair of the ACR Breast Commission, discusses post-COVID-19 economic issues facing breast imaging centers, including staffing problems from the "Great Resignation" and lower reimbursements. 

Use of the barrier reduced associated insertion costs at one institution by 73% and insertion time by 50%. 

Dense breast experts Wendie Berg, MD, and JoAnn Pushkin, executive director of DenseBreast-info Inc., explain the current status of breast density patient inform laws, reimbursement and new technologies to aid cancer detection. 

Social vulnerability index scores account for factors like socioeconomic status, household composition, disability, minority status, language, housing type and transportation.

The acquisition represents a significant advance in interoperability and will combine networks that total over 80 billion images globally, including data from institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Radiographers trained to recognize certain findings on screening mammograms could help address the worldwide shortage of radiologists. 

A total of 37,073 MRI examinations conducted at 552 facilities across the U.S. between January 2010 and March 2020 were included in the analysis.

Requests for urgent CT reads during the evening, overnight and on the weekends have increased more than 10-fold, causing a negative ripple effect throughout the radiology workforce, especially among trainees.