Lexmark Healthcare and Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) have partnered to announce the availability of the National Image Exchange, which allows healthcare organizations to exchange medical images and content both with each other and with organizations outside of the CDI network. 

Modern cancer care urgently demands new approaches. Lives are at risk, and an ever increasing number of cancer patients and complex examinations constitute more of the radiologist's workload than ever before.

With a single-vendor CT fleet many years in service, Savannah, Ga.-based St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) health system was a model of customer loyalty.

Memorial Hermann Health System, a nonprofit Houston-based hospital system, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, also based out of Houston, are opening four new breast cancer screening centers around the metropolitan Houston area, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle. 

In a recent study published by PLOS Medicine, a team of researchers analyzed more than 11,000 patients ages 14 year and older with blunt trauma, creating two decision instruments (DIs) they believe could reduce unnecessary chest CTs by approximately 25 to 37 percent.

Any distributed workflow solution worth its salt helps radiologists work at the top of their clinical skill set, maximize their productivity and fully integrate their workflow with that of the rest of their practice-and, ultimately, with the workflow of the ordering physician, practice or provider organization.

Ankur M. Doshi, MD, of the New York University Langone Medical Center radiology department, and colleagues looked at reviews posted on Yelp for 126 outpatient radiology centers from throughout the United States, analyzing what does and does not affect a patient’s overall experience. 

Blackford Analysis, a provider of software products that accelerate comparison of medical images, today announced it has secured a second consulting engagement with Optos, a global leader in ultra-widefield retinal imaging technology.