Radiologists fare well overall in online physician reviews posted by patients at RateMDs.com, although the reviews betray evidence of the “halo effect”—the doc can either do no wrong or gets almost nothing right—according to a study running in the May edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

If you’re a radiologist, you’re a leader. Even if nobody reports to you, you influence your peers, your healthcare colleagues and even those you report up to—and everyone else with whom you cross paths in your line of work. Given this actuality, you would do well to adopt as your own the business-management principle popularly known as “360-degree leadership.” 

The winds of change are blowing across the field of radiology at arguably their highest sustained speeds ever. Disruption is everywhere, from technological advances like AI to regulatory mandates like MACRA—and from comprehensive profession-improvement campaigns like Imaging 3.0 to moving targets like whatever shakes out of healthcare reform (or doesn’t). What’s a rad to do? 

“The more monitors, the better” might be the order of the day if younger radiologists had their druthers on workstation design, according to a study published online April 28 in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

Professional athletes are used to preferential treatment, but a recent investigation in Manitoba, Canada, showed some Winnipeg Jets players were given quicker appointments for MRI services. But one official says the issue isn't controversial—it's about properly knowing the system and how to get seen as soon as possible.

The Oklahoma radiologists who were accused in January of improperly billing CMS for services provided by unsupervised assistants have agreed, along with their hospital and a former administrator, to settle with DOJ for $1,618,750.

In “going rogue” by deviating from the expected first-in-first-out worklist policy, radiologists at a large practice have been shown to have increased their read times by 13 percent. In the process, they cost their practice plenty of dollars. 

Few would dispute that the proliferation of patient portals, along with the success of the OpenNotes initiative, have represented anything but positive steps along U.S. healthcare’s march toward patient-centric transparency. However, many patients have considerable trouble understanding radiology reports—and sometimes too much information can be more vexing than not enough.