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.

Physicians in fields like cardiology have traditionally looked to clinical practice guidelines to help articulate the best evidence-based care for patients. The rapidly growing movement to value-based care is prompting clinicians—including echocardiographers—to carefully weigh a more focused and integrative approach to delivering consistent, quality medicine: care pathways.

ImageMoverMD, a provider of enterprise solutions that integrate medical images with electronic health record systems, today announced the availability of ImageMover Media. ImageMover Media is a universal, web-based solution to import DICOM and non-DICOM medical images. The solution is available to new and existing customers immediately.

Washington, D.C. – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) commends Aetna for its decision to cover computed tomography (CT) colonography, also known as virtual colonoscopy.

Siemens Healthineers announced today its intention to acquire Medicalis, a provider of workflow technology and clinical decision support to radiology groups, imaging centers and hospitals in the United States and Canada. Terms of the transaction were not immediately disclosed.

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.