A review of emergency radiology response at Brigham and Women’s Hospital following the Boston Marathon bombings last year highlighted the hospital staff’s efficiency at quickly turning around CT exams, though it also revealed areas for improvement.

The Mayo Clinic is leading a collaborative effort to spur a national protocol to help prevent the overuse and misuse of imaging in children.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently unveiled the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule, which largely directed cuts at radiation therapy centers and radiation oncology rather than imaging.

Concern comes with any new process or system change in healthcare, and the increasing use of online patient portals in radiology is no exception. However, worries about patient anxiety, an uptick in office phone calls or misinterpretation of reports seem to have been kept at bay, as the adoption of portals is offering a host of promising benefits for patients and radiologists alike. 

In April, long-awaited data on Medicare physician payments were finally made public by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The release contained information on 880,000 physicians and other healthcare providers who took in a total of about $77 billion in payments in 2012.

Let’s say you need an MRI of your lower back (and so we’re heeding the Choosing Wisely recommendations from the American College of Physicians, we’ll say it’s for some specific suspected abnormality and not just non-specific back pain). How much is that going to cost? 

The Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) announced that its Research and Education (R&E) Foundation will fund 94 grants totaling $3.6 million in 2014, which is the largest amount ever awarded by the foundation in a single year.

A child with head trauma who briefly lost consciousness but has no other signs or symptoms related to the head trauma is unlikely to have sustained a serious brain injury. In these cases, CT scans of the head are not routinely required, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Pediatrics.