Assured Imaging, the leading provider of mobile digital mammography in the United States, is reporting significantly increased patient volume and radiologist productivity nine months after implementing the Exa™ Enterprise Imaging platform from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. Exa has helped the organization increase radiologist productivity by 20%.

Healthcare cybersecurity insurance claims in 2017 made up 17 percent of total claims—but accounted for 28 percent of costs related to breaches, roughly $65 million of a total $229 million, according to the 2017 Cyber Claims Study by NetDiligence.

Philips Healthcare and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICE-CERT) issued security advisories regarding vulnerabilities to Philip's medical imaging management software systems ISite and IntelliSpace PACS.

Radiology rounds were once common, allowing radiologists and referring physicians to interact on a regular basis and discuss patient care. Today, however, they are largely a thing of the past.

Facebook has been in the news lately, having to explain how millions of users' data have been misused. Now it has announced an end to plans to share user data with several major U.S. hospitals and organizations.

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.