Giving radiologists more of a say in accepting, rejecting or changing referrers’ high-end imaging orders can significantly lift patient safety, cut costs and right-size resource allocation, according to a study conducted at Wilmington, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System and published online June 18 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Dutch healthcare technology company Royal Philips bought the Northern Irish pathology image analysis firm PathXL, Royal Philips announced June 21. 

In 2013 Boston Medical Center, a 496-bed teaching hospital affiliated with Boston University, bit the bullet and rolled out 24/7 in-house attending radiology with an eye on improving patient care. The bitten bullet ended up carrying an annual price tag of $850,000. Have the returns been worth the investment?

The Mid-Atlantic imaging-center proprietor who was convicted of healthcare fraud last winter after two patients died due to interpretation of chest X-rays by nonmedical staff has received his sentence.

Virtual reality is the talk of techies all over the world. But will VR find its way into healthcare on anything approaching a meaningful scale?

Recent survey data revealed that most radiology residents cannot estimate imaging costs within 50 percent of accepted Medicare fees. Armed with this eyebrow-raising insight, researchers from Harvard and Brown Universities have studied the use of iPad apps for teaching tech-savvy millennials the basics of healthcare economics. Their conclusion: The approach works. 

As trade and travel restrictions slowly loosen up with Cuba, U.S. suppliers of high-end medical equipment probably have a long wait before they have any chance at all to turn the “Pearl of the Antilles” into a hotspot of their market. 

In 2014 the Healthcare Financial Management Association offered tips and recommendations to help healthcare providers become more transparent to healthcare consumers with price and quality data, including info related to imaging services.