The time has not come, and probably never will, for academic medical centers to adopt 24-hour coverage by expert attending radiologists. In fact, the traditional model—overnight ER coverage by radiology residents with trust-but-verify oversight by faculty members—is not only up to the task but superior to the up-and-coming way.

When most people think about productivity, they think about how to do more. When Puneet Bhargava, MD, thinks about that subject, he cogitates on how he can use his time and energy more efficiently in order to find more time and energy to do things he couldn’t do before on account of being disorganized.

For some organizers as well as attendees of radiology meetings, live tweets and meeting-related Twitter polls sent from the site are distractions one can happily do without. However, with a little preparation and know-how, meeting tweeters and their followers can tap the social-media platform such that it greatly enhances the meeting experience for all involved.

Compared to emailed survey requests, electronic kiosks generate a higher response rate and less recall bias, according to Olga R. Brook, MD.

A urology practice in South Carolina has been ordered to pay $10 million for a member physician’s failure to treat a kidney cancer in a timely way, resulting in the death of a patient. And the patient’s life may have been saved if only the treating urologist, who is also on the hook individually, had followed the recommendations of his consulting radiologist.

A study recently published in Journal of the American College of Radiology tested to evaluate if patient data provided by electronic medical records (EMRs) can help radiologists predict the probability of patients failing to show up to imaging appointments. 

In the latest issue of Radiology Business Journal, just out, Nisha Mehta, MD, urges her fellow radiologists to help the profession “fix its PR problem.” This, she points out, is readily evidenced by the fact that few healthcare consumers—and more than a few healthcare workers—have never met a radiologist or heard what radiologists do.

The percentage of women interested or working in diagnostic radiology (DR) remains stagnant. The most recent statistic of women participating in DR was 26.9 percent in 2013, compared to 25.5 percent in 1990.