Seven members have been added to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), a group tasked with improving the quality and access of health IT by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Healthcare stakeholders throughout U.S. medicine, including radiology leaders, aren’t waiting for the ink to dry before speaking their minds.

The news follows the departure of MetroHealth’s CEO, who was fired by the board of trustees after it was discovered he had been giving himself unauthorized bonuses totaling $1.9 million.

The unfolding scenario is packing some serious threats to the livelihoods of the unprepared.   

Edward T.A. Fry, MD, president of the American College of Cardiology and a veteran cardiologist, shared his perspective on the many ways cardiologists can work to limit medical misinformation and disinformation. 

Health Exec caught up with Erik Swanson, senior vice president of data and analytics at Kaufman Hall, to learn more about the underlying trends throughout 2022 and what hospitals are bracing for in 2023.

The Journal of the American College of Radiology has named five peer-reviewed papers its best of the year.

Professional consensus supports the use of ultrasound for initial imaging evaluation of patients presenting in the ED with suspected urinary stone disease (USD). However, as of 2018, only 2% of these patients received ultrasound while some 59% had CT.