Only one-fifth of case reports containing medical images mention a radiologist as the co-author. Those reports were also lower in quality, according to research published online Sept. 20 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The federal government has fined three Boston hospitals nearly $1 million for potential HIPAA violations regarding a documentary series.

After implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system, an orthopedic clinic saw its labor costs and staff documentation time significantly increase during the first several months before then returning to previous levels, according to a study.

New research shows that STATdx, Elsevier’s new online diagnostic decision support tool, can reduce diagnostic errors by radiologists by 19 percent.

More than one-third of the errors in radiologist reports are made after-hours by trainees and then confirmed by a consultant radiologist, even though after-hours reports accounted for only 18 percent of all reports, according to research published Sept. 13 in Clinical Radiology.  

A Pennsylvania health insurance company issued a notice following a security incident that exposed the private health information of some members.

Twenty-three percent of healthcare providers have no plans to adopt speech recognition into their electronic health records (EHR) system despite it being an “effective, proven tool,” according to a new report.

PACS has become one of the most important digital advancements in radiology, according to a Sept. 17 Journal of Digital Imaging study—but it is not without flaws.