Brigham and Women's recently started using an electronic health record-embedded tool, resulting in many improvements for preoperative breast localization procedures.

After years of delays, the initiative's usefulness has "diminished significantly," imaging leaders from several noted institutions wrote in Health Affairs. 

Presenters will highlight basic requirements and exceptions of the rules but are unlikely to discuss enforcement topics that have yet to be finalized.

Surgeons need to evaluate computed tomography scans themselves in order to appropriately decide management strategies, physicians wrote recently. 

Focus groups requested 5 broad changes to reporting habits, which helped bolster readability, comprehension and knowledge of their future heart risks.

The results are particularly noteworthy given patients were chosen at random, rather than assessing recommendations for those with high-risk nodules.

Several experts recently revealed what the specialty wants from its radiologist peers, publishing their guidance in the Journal of Clinical Orthopedics and Trauma. 

The weeklong course will include live lectures, group discussions and more.