Massachusetts General Hospital doctors analyzed Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System usage in their high-volume cardiac CT services center for the study.

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. 

Part of the problem also involves storing images via the DICOM format, which can be exploited to falsify scans, install malware and sabotage research.

Patients often visit their primary care provider for lower back pain, with imaging revealing no acute injury and only common signs of wear and tear, UW experts wrote recently.  

The European Society of Radiology published a whitepaper detailing the power of this emerging distributed database technology in Insights into Imaging.

Researchers embedded a two-question survey into electronic health records at two institutions to gain insight into how consumers and providers view imaging reports.

The academic imaging department found that plain computed tomography head scans produced numerous phone calls from referrers, pulling rads away from their work. 

Healthcare lags other industries in funding programs to combat cyberattacks, and successful breeches can leave imaging departments reeling.