When the Affordable Care Act required physician performance information to be made available in a way that allows patients to make comparisons based on quality of care, the CMS Physicians Compare Initiative was born. However, according to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, the initiative should include more imaging-specific metrics so it can accurately reflect a radiologist’s overall performance. 

After 17 months of hard work, employees at the Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Ind., successfully decreased staffing hours in their diagnostic imaging department while increasing staff productivity and workforce engagement. How did they do it? 

Radiologists should always review CT scout images, and not doing so could have legal ramifications down the line, according to a recent commentary published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Baseline CT findings can serve as independent predictors of clinical outcomes, hospital resource utilization, and inpatient costs in cases related to acute appendicitis, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

GE Healthcare and Temple University Health System have announced a seven-year collaboration that will focus on promoting high-quality, efficient imaging services at a lower cost.

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology, faculty from Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute examined the frequency of wrong-patient events. The number of near-misses was “considerable,” they concluded, and there was definite room for improvement.

Radiologists using collective intelligence (CI) methods consistently produce more accurate breast cancer diagnoses than a single radiologist, according to recent research published by PLOS ONE. 

Radiologists are significantly underrepresented on physician-rating websites, according to recent research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.