Social media can be a boon to healthcare workers and the provider institutions they work for—but it can just as easily be a bust. Just ask the nursing students expelled from school for posting “hilarious” x-rays of an anonymous emergency patient with a foreign object lodged inside a body cavity. The students committed no HIPAA violation, just a breach in basic ethics. But the lapse was enough to derail a couple of promising careers before they even began.

U.S. healthcare is in for a wave of technology-driven disruption over the next five years unlike any it’s seen up to now—and it’s up to imaging professionals to light the way in figuring out what to embrace, what to reject and what to take a chance on.

A man has been in a motorcycle accident. He’s in your healthcare system now, somewhere between the ED for evaluation and the discharge desk en route home. How’d you do at coordinating his care across all the steps in between?

Is Northern California becoming the most medical imaging-friendly region in the U.S.? The case could be made.

When it comes to knowing codes of ethics pertinent to their profession, radiologists and radiology trainees are largely wandering around in a darkness of their own choosing: In a recent survey, widely distributed and promoted online, more than three-quarters of rad respondents said they’ve never read the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics.

A tech-centric project aimed at improving the quality of radiographic images in the radiology department of a pediatric teaching hospital has succeeded in cutting technologists’ collective error rate from 2.7 percent in the project’s first three months to 0.9 percent in the final six months. 

At some point in the not-distant future, a patient is going to blame someone—perhaps a physician, maybe even a radiologist—for an injurious care decision made, recommended or otherwise nudged by artificial intelligence (AI). Who will be slapped with the suit? 

Along with confirming CT as a fast and relatively low-radiation means of guiding epidural steroid injections for pain relief in the spine, researchers in New York City have shown CT guidance similarly safe and speedy for other back-pain interventions like injections to nerve roots and facet joints.