Healthcare systems can use the tool to merge clinical health information with imaging files and perform tasks that are difficult and expensive to complete with current approaches.

The gains were particularly notable in MRI and conventional radiography and at smaller hospitals, experts reported in Insights into Imaging. 

Queen Elizabeth Hospital is now in the process of purchasing a new PACS system to reduce some unnecessary manual steps. 

Innovation is crucial to the evolution of radiology, but trailblazers who take shortcuts will be left disappointed, experts advised. 

This more uniform method of reporting has now become the "backbone of oncological imaging" at one high-volume cancer center. 

As recently as eight months ago, cardiologists sitting down to work with medical images at Novant Health had plenty of choices on where and how to go about that part of their jobs.

The intervention is inexpensive and simple to replicate, UW Medicine experts explained in JAMA Network Open. 

The Radiological Society of North America launched its fourth annual artificial intelligence challenge, hoping to help docs detect and characterize the condition.