It’s a great time to be a radiologist. Imaging technology is advancing, jobs are plentiful and wages are healthy, wrote a pair of radiologists in a Sept. 4 Radiology commentary. At the same time, costs are rapidly increasing.

Annual lung screenings of older-aged current and former smokers should be conducted more regularly, potentially saving up to 65,000 lives in the U.S. each year, according to findings from the NELSON study presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) World Conference on Lung Cancer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

More than one-third of the errors in radiologist reports are made after-hours by trainees and then confirmed by a consultant radiologist, even though after-hours reports accounted for only 18 percent of all reports, according to research published Sept. 13 in Clinical Radiology.  

Patients with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) continue to see out-of-pocket costs rise. Despite this, healthcare prices remain largely a mystery to consumers—but what if a hospital helped families better understand their potential out-of-pocket expenses?

Burnout among radiology residents is among the highest compared to other medical subspecialties, with 85 percent of trainees feeling emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and decreased feelings of personal accomplishment. Dexter Mendoza, MD, and Frederic Bertino, MD, at Emory University in Atlanta, may have ways to combat it.

Only one-fifth of case reports containing medical images mention a radiologist as the co-author. Those reports were also lower in quality, according to research published online Sept. 20 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Cerner announced Monday, Sept. 10, that its president, Zane Burke, will be leaving the company.

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) recently released a whitepaper outlining best practices for MR technologists to improve patient care.

The University of Queensland in Australia has opened its $8.5 million biomedical imaging center designed to tackle key questions related to treatment and prevention of diseases, according to the university.