Use of the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria (ACR-AC) is low among radiology medical students, according to a recent study published by Academic Radiology.

My 85-year-old mother volunteers as an intake person at a free clinic, but her high school Spanish is long gone. This week, she found herself on duty without an interpreter and was amazed when a much younger volunteer pulled her smart phone from her pocket, spoke a question into it, and out came the question in Spanish.  The app performed the inverse function for the Spanish-speaking gentleman, and voilà, the registration ensued.

During the first quarter of 2015, seven million more people had health insurance compared with the same time period last year, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.

A free-to-use online calculator to help providers assess the cost of nuclear stress tests is now available from University Nuclear & Diagnostics (UND).

A five-year, $2.65 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will help providers in West Virginia detect colorectal cancer earlier.

Among some of the most commonly ordered CT exams, the one that tends to deliver the largest radiation doses is chest abdomen pelvis with IV contrast. The one with the smallest radiation footprint is chest without IV contrast.

Google a restaurant and one of your top results will be a star rating from Yelp. Google a doctor’s name, or that of a practice or hospital, and you’re likely to be looking at a similar visual aid from Healthgrades. That may be about to change in Yelp’s favor—and to patients’ advantage. 

Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers of Denver, Colo., recently installed Carestream’s newest generation of Vue RIS (radiology information system) to create a more streamlined clinical workflow that delivers most radiology reports within one to two hours to referring physicians. Urgent reports are delivered in as little as 10 to 15 minutes.