No specialty in medicine serves more Medicare beneficiaries than radiology—and this distinction opens all sorts of opportunities to “engage patients and better brand the specialty.”

On the heels of GE and Partners Healthcare announcing their collaboration on artificial intelligence beginning with radiology comes a longish look at the decades-long relationship between GE and the University of Wisconsin.

Participation in breast cancer screening has declined in England. A new analysis revealed women who miss a first breast screening appointment and are given a fixed date for another appointment are more likely to attend that backup.

Designed for Patient Comfort; Makes Fast 3T MR Exams a Reality

Point-of-care clinical decision support (CDS) has showcased its ability to safely head off unnecessary imaging of patients presenting with low back pain—the poster-child condition of overutilization and defensive medicine—in the busy emergency department of an urban academic medical center.

Researchers from the surgery and radiology departments at Yale University have developed a clinical-ultrasound scoring system that may be both sensitive and specific enough to preclude the use of CT for patients with suspected appendicitis. 

As long as they’ve got money in a health savings account (HSA), men are willing to pay considerably more to choose prostate biopsy guided by MRI plus transrectal ultrasound over prostate biopsy guided by transrectal ultrasound alone, according to a study published online in Urology Practice.

Several Kiwi imaging professionals are under fire for a misdiagnosis that started with a trainee sonographer and led to life-changing unnecessary surgery.