The technologist guides patients through procedure-specific VR games designed to ease anxiety and discomfort during their treatment.

Despite some assumptions that telehealth visits increase the unnecessary utilization of diagnostic services, new data suggest the opposite may be true. 

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Although GBCAs are largely considered safe, there are concerns about how gadolinium retention could affect patients who require repeated imaging.

Fevers of unknown origin account for around 2% of hospitalizations and can present significant diagnostic challenges for providers.

After looking into the case, officials discovered that a coding error prevented the radiology report, which contained critical findings, from ever being sent to the referring provider.

This is despite experts cautioning that these findings should be "systematically and fully assessed" due to their progressive nature.

The hope is that by creating detectors that are more sensitive, less ionizing radiation will be needed to produce diagnostic quality imaging.