Can you recall the last shift during which you spent close to 100% of your time on clinical duties?

I can. It was my last shift. I had no administrative obligations, no committee meetings, no software glitches, no running around trying to find a physician or tech—just eyes on images and voice into the mic.

Medical malpractice claims are a significant source of anxiety for all radiologists. Unfortunately, decisions made in the heat of the moment, with the absolute best intentions, can still land a specialist in court.

One 3D mammogram acquired via digital breast tomosynthesis adds about 500 MB of image data to a hospital’s storage system. That’s the average. On the high end, a single study can occupy as much as 3 GB of real estate on a finite-volume storage server.

Why would a 40 year old, well-respected player change their name amidst mass industry consolidation? Competitive move? Sure. Advantage for partners and patients? Illuminating. Over the last few years, there has been a dramatic reshape occurring in the practice of radiology. 

The American College of Cardiology is offering several educational webinars and patient cases on diagnosing severe aortic stenosis in a variety of patient types. The series is called Severe Aortic Stenosis: Essentials for Assessment and Diagnosis.

Shared decision-making is absolutely crucial when diagnosing and treating heart valve disease (HVD). Should a transcatheter intervention be considered or is surgery the best choice? Would the patient respond better to an artificial or a bioprosthetic heart valve? These are just a couple of the key questions that are vital for the entire heart team—and the patient—to be involved in that discussion.

Innovation in the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) space has upped the ante once again.

Before the pandemic, hospitals were hesitant to embrace a cloud journey. Sure, some were using the cloud for research projects and used cloud-based applications like Microsoft 365, but use of the cloud for medical imaging data management was largely in its infancy.