A new survey found many physicians were not confident in the quality of interpretations performed outside of their own institution, signaling even seamless access to secondary resources may not reduce double-imaging.

The Utah-based research firm recently recognized a slew of vendors, based on what it learned from thousands of interviews with healthcare providers and payers. 

Last February, 439-bed Riverside University Health System Medical Center (RUHS-MC) opened a new cardiac and neurovascular catheterization lab. While some internal questioning initially swirled around which vendor would supply image-management products and services, the CIO-led selection and acquisition team quickly settled on Sectra’s Enterprise Imaging for Cardiology solution.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., recently spelled out his concerns in a sharply worded letter to the Defense Health Agency.

The Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting Data System Magnetic Resonance Imaging score can help physicians create a patient-centered approach and potentially prevent unnecessary surgeries. 

A blue-ribbon panel of gurus recently shared their advice in an article set to be published in April’s American Journal of Roentgenology. 

Stanford University researchers found their method diagnosed nodules as accurately as expert classifiers and would have avoided a number of unnecessary biopsies in the process.

As healthcare continues its hunt to reduce excessive imaging, Yale New Haven Hospital has found its clinical decision support intervention to be remarkably effective.