Patients with disabilities or living in poverty have poorer health outcomes and higher costs. Theoretically, alternative payment models (APMs) could encourage providers to better coordinate care for vulnerable populations and improve their outcomes—but they also have the potential to harm these patients, according to Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.

The My HealthE Data initiative announced by CMS at HIMSS18 earned favorable reactions from health IT professionals at the conference. When it comes to actually allowing patients to access and share their health data, however, some companies which profit from the current “friction-filled health data sharing economy” will resist, according to former U.S. chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra.

Heuristics, or mental shortcuts based on past experiences, can help decisionmakers get things done at a rapid rate—but they can also lead to cognitive bias and significant mistakes. A new study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology examined how heuristics and cognitive bias impact image interpretation in radiology.

Women outpaced men in medical school enrollment for the first time in 2017, but a new report shows they’re entering a profession where the gender pay gap is only growing.

Bibb Allen Jr., MD, department of radiology at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama, served as the 2016-2017 president of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and delivered the presidential address at the ACR 2017 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Brandon Taylor, MD, a musculoskeletal radiologist working in Washington, D.C., shared some tips for young students when he was profiled by a St. Louis newspaper.

Fight Colorectal Cancer, a patient advocacy group first founded in 2005, is sending representatives to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., for the 12th straight year to ask lawmakers to support “the prevention, detection and treatment of colorectal cancer.” This year, the group is sending 150 advocates from the United States and Puerto Rico.

Radiologists serve more unique Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, on average, than members of any other specialty group, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.