Doctors ordering exams on patients who show signs of heart disease really can’t go wrong if they choose high-tech computed tomographic angiography (CTA) over time-honored stress testing. 

It’s 2015. Do you know where your radiologist is? Most patients don’t. Nor do they know what radiologists do, exactly, or why it should matter. 

Radiologists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have blazed a new trail in social media, making their workplace the first hospital to have its own channel via an image-sharing app unofficially dubbed “Instagram for doctors.”

Hospital patients appreciate it when facilities have been prettied up for eye appeal and ambience. However, when they feel dissatisfied with the care they receive, even the nicest amenities won’t sway their overall opinion of the place. 

Nearly 20% of American adults suffer with chronic daily migraines and turn to various pills as their first line of relief. A new, minimally invasive treatment designed and tested by interventional radiologists may offer an effective alternative with zero side effects. 

“A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events, the vaguer it becomes,” George Orwell wrote in Shooting an Elephant. The elephant hunt begins this week as the debate over the language used in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes center stage in the US Supreme Court.

On February 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an extension to the attestation deadline for Medicare EHR Incentive Program reporting periods that occurred in calendar year (CY) 2014. 

DR Systems, the privately held supplier of PACS, RIS and EHR systems based in San Diego—a highly regarded fixture in the radiology IT space for close to a quarter-century—has been acquired for $70 million by publicly traded Merge Healthcare.