Facility Management

Unnecessary imaging is usually a product of the referring physician, but radiologists can play a part in making sure the imaging is appropriate.

Changes are looming in health care, and in population health, radiology needs leaders to prove value.

Follow-up after abnormal imaging may be delayed due to poor communication.

When patients ask for their imaging studies, they are usually provided with a CD with complicated instructions on accessing the files.

Properly designed radiology reading rooms can boost radiologists’ efficiency and communication.

Radiology and pathology can be a powerful team, if they can learn to work together.

Radiologists can see everything that they are missing when they work holidays.

The medical community is bracing for a physician shortage, but data shows the opposite trend for radiology.

Radiology professionals reveal what they think 2015 will hold.

The 12 days of Christmas, radiology style.

Presenting Diagnostic Imaging's most popular articles of 2014.

When referrers don’t use clinical decision support, radiologists don’t get reimbursed.

Limiting neuroimaging for headaches may result in the lack of timely detection of brain tumors for early treatment, according to a study.

ACR leaders debate reimbursement, commoditization, and health care reform at RSNA 2014.

A majority of malpractice cases in radiology are a result of failure to diagnose or communicate.

Computer-generated patient histories are more thorough, organized, and useful than physician-written histories.

Patients must become central to radiologists’ work, David C. Levin, MD, said at RSNA 2014.

The RSNA Reporting Initiative continues to grow and give radiologists a sampling of best practice reporting templates.

Radiology practices already have the data they need to forecast clinical demand.

People don’t need to see the true representation of radiologists.

Though the relationship can be strained, radiologists and referring physicians have a lot to offer one another.

Federal mandates for clinical decision support for imaging studies can put radiologists in the forefront of a trend that’s likely to grow.

Radiology managers are still skeptical about receiving adequate reimbursement from Medicare.

Employers are no longer offering partnership to radiologists.

Check out who won the Top People to Watch in Radiology - 2014 contest.