A quality improvement program designed to reduce low-value electronic health record (EHR) notifications led to a 1.5-hour reduction in work for primary care physicians, according to a study published in BMJ Quality & Safety.

A hospital’s degree of electronic health record (EHR) implementation was not associated with improved outcomes in heart failure patients, according to a study published March 30 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Neurologists are likely to put more worth into radiology reports if the radiologist responsible for them holds a subspecialization in the field, Dutch researchers reported early this month in Clinical Radiology.

Social network sites (SNSs) facilitate efficient communication between healthcare professionals but are limited in protecting data, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Although electronic health records (EHRs) were designed to improve care and streamline data sharing, rates of burnout have increased as EHR-related tasks produced are placed on physicians' shoulders. An article by Harvard Business Journal examines which improvement to EHRs could have the biggest impact in reducing burnout.

How common are incidental thyroid nodules (ITNs) in the U.S. screening population? And which ITNs should receive further evaluation? A researcher from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, examined data from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) to answer those questions, sharing her findings in a new study for Academic Radiology.

Sharing critical test results via text message could be a quicker, more efficient way to facilitate communication between radiologists and primary care physicians, according to recent data from the Seoul National University Medical Research Center in South Korea.

Inappropriately overriding clinical decision support (CDS) in electronic health records (EHRs) was linked to a six-fold increase in adverse drug events (ADEs), according to a study published Feb. 9 in BMJ Quality and Safety.