Anxiety is often cited as a “harm” of screening mammography, perhaps most famously when the United States Preventive Services Task Force listed it, along with false-positives, as reasons average-risk women ages 40 to 49 should not get routine mammograms. 

The sessions at the AHRA 2015 Virtual Fall Conference may be prerecorded, but the festivities began on Oct. 16 with a live keynote presentation from Richard Duszak, MD, chief medical officer of the American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute.

Intention deserves more attention in modern radiology, according to a recent commentary published in Academic Radiology, because it’s intent that separates living, breathing radiologists from decision-making machines. 

The Journal of the American College of Radiology recently presented readers with opinions from both sides of the debate over whether radiology residency spots need to be reduced. 

A study evaluating Choosing Wisely’s impact on use of four different low-value imaging services noted a significant decrease in two of them, with little to no impact in the other two, according to findings published by JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Scott Erven, associate director at the global consulting firm Protiviti, and Mark Collao, security consultant for security company Neohapsis, gave a presentation last month at DerbyCon 5.0 in Louisville, Ky., about the security of computer systems and medical devices in the U.S. Erven spoke with RadiologyBusiness.com about the situation, sharing his insight along with some tips for keeping computer systems and medical devices as secure as possible.   

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and 38 other healthcare networks and supporting organizations have been chosen to participate in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, a $685 million federal investment designed to improve the quality of care in U.S. healthcare. 

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report last week about reducing diagnostic errors in healthcare. Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, worked on the report as a member of the Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care. He spoke with RadiologyBusiness.com to discuss the report’s findings.