Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Cancer Screening Increases with Virtual Colonography Over Colonoscopy

It’s no surprise that men would prefer not to receive a colonoscopy, but just how much they prefer the alternative CT colonography was the subject of a study in the current issue of The Lancet.

DR Systems Earns Patent for Resolution ID

With the age of digital imaging comes new considerations that radiologists had not previously thought about, such as resolution size of a digital image.

RadSite Reviews More Than 60,000 Image Systems

Radsite, one of the leaders in improving quality among imaging facilities, announced that it has reviewed more than 60,000 imaging systems and about 23,000 facilities.

Uninsured, Medicaid Patients Receive Less Medical Imaging in the ED

Researchers looking at a national survey of 600 hospitals found the uninsured and Medicaid enrollees receive fewer medical imaging procedures during emergency room visits.

Breast Cancer Screening Among 26 Medicaid Measures

Breast cancer screening made the list of 26 Medicaid quality measures that states may begin reporting to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services next year. Measurements excluded other forms of diagnostic imaging.

Study Examines Post Deficit Reduction Effects

A new study concludes that in-office based imaging facilities fared better than hospital out-patient centers even after three years of steep cuts to in-office care under the Deficit Reduction Act.

Alberta Mounts Large Scale Review of Radiology After Major Errors

The Alberta government in Canadian has called for a sweeping review of all diagnostic imaging and pathology tests in the province after multiple errors were found, which in several cases led to different diagnosis.

Interventional Radiologists Better, Less Expensive for Treating PAD

For treating patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), interventional radiologists cost Medicare less and resulted in better outcomes compared to other specialists.