Postgraduate radiologists had particular trouble with high-cost items, such as IVC filters, stent grafts and EVAR grafts, researchers reported in the Irish Medical Journal.
Hospital for Special Surgery in New York today became the first U.S. hospital to implement integrated clinical diagnostics with the launch of a digital pathology solution that unites pathology images and reports with electronic medical record data and radiology images across the enterprise.
COVID-19 relief funds could be one area of scrutiny, with such programs doling out billions of dollars to the healthcare industry to counter catastrophic losses, experts said.
Such unwarranted fluctuations could have downstream implications affecting repeat imaging, medical costs and quality, Brigham and Women's experts noted.