The 2016 Olympics have inadvertently shone a bright light on the chasm between healthcare in Rio de Janeiro for the haves who will come and go—the athletes, the entourages, the tourists—and healthcare for the poor residents who will remain.

The online job search site Health eCareers is out with its second annual salary survey, and the Dallas Morning News has reviewed the numbers to figure out what they mean for healthcare workers in the Lone Star State. 

Gleaming and modern, 172-bed Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Oregon, operates the largest outpatient imaging center on the southern Oregon coast—and owns a colorful, sometimes rocky history worthy of beyond-local coverage in words and images. 

If more than 2,500 physicians responding to a national survey reflect the changing state of clinical decision-making, MRI is frequently getting rationed due to doctors’ concerns about cost. In fact, only drug prescriptions are curtailed more—and not by much. 

When it comes to adapting to U.S. healthcare’s transition from volume- to value-based reimbursement, radiology is “leading the charge for non-patient-facing providers in a world that’s geared almost entirely around the direct patient-facing experience.”

A radiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is almost as much a product developer and entrepreneur as he is a physician. For that reason he’s drawn the attention of the business and technology publisher Xconomy. 

A major medical school and its affiliated health system have been hit with a multimillion-dollar fraud settlement after two radiologists were caught billing for mandatory reviews of residents’ interpretations that the experienced rads never actually looked at.

An analysis of the Golden State’s system of penalizing healthcare providers responsible for harming patients has revealed that the program is doing nothing to reduce medical errors.