A technical expert panel has determined five clinical actions that are of low value and within the control of emergency department health care providers to identify additional actionable targets of overuse in emergency medicine, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine on Feb. 17. 

Members of the Missouri Society of Radiologic Technologists met with lawmakers at the state capitol in Jefferson City on Feb. 12 to ask them to support House Bill 1060, a measure that will set licensing standards for personnel who perform certain radiologic procedures.

Hospitalized patients have been estimated to receive a mean dose of 14.8 milliSieverts (mSv), a majority of which can be attributed to CT examinations, according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Fellowship training should be the basis for uterine artery embolization (UAE) privileging and credentialing, according to a study published online Feb. 12 by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Employers with 50 to 99 full-time workers won’t face a penalty for failing to provide insurance to employees until 2016, according to the Obama administration and Treasury Department officials.

Though most trauma centers (TCs) in Washington use pediatric dose-reduction protocols for head CTs, a wide variation in radiation dose suggests the need for educational efforts and institutional protocols to reduce pediatric radiation dose from head CTs, according to a study published in the February 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

The American College of Radiology (ACR) strongly supports the bicameral, bipartisan legislation to replace the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula. The College particularly applauds inclusion of several ACR backed provisions that raise quality of care, make care more efficient and increase transparency in physician payment policy.  

Though imaging facilities maintain ownership rights of the images that they produce, patients have a right to inspect their own images and obtain copies of them, according to an article published online Feb. 5 by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.