Should the profession of radiology adopt rules to limit a.) workloads (how many exams radiologists can read per day), b.) duty hours (how long they can work per shift) and c.) reading speeds (how quickly they can complete one exam before beginning the next)? Judging by readers’ clicks at Radiology Business in 2022, the possibility of such mandated work constraints has quietly become one of the hottest topics for talk within the specialty. Yes, the links below are listed in descending order of click counts.

The rest of the list is telling too. It suggests a lot of you remain keenly interested in many and varied aspects of the business of radiology.

Thank you for continuing to count on RB as a go-to news outlet working this beat. Happy 2023,

Dave Pearson

Against the backdrop of radiologists getting sued for medical negligence after allegedly reading images too hastily, recent years have seen pointed calls for new radiology rules, requirements or regulations.

A three-site imaging operation in Hawaii has been turning away patients since Oct. 20 due to what its management initially described as unspecified “technical difficulties.”

Imaging practices more likely to utilize NPPs are in urban areas, larger in size, and have a higher percentage of IR specialists, experts wrote in JACR. 

Radiology researchers from six leading medical schools have laid out some attuned and readily adoptable strategies for groups challenged to prosper in a time of difficult reimbursement dynamics.

An analysis of CMS data has shown radiology had little to do with increases in Medicare costs over a 10-year period ending in 2019.

The finding was part of a wide-ranging survey of doctors’ after-work habits across the U.S., gauging everything from automobile preference to pot and alcohol use. 

A Butterfly Network spokesperson said the company has a "robust" portfolio of patents and plans to defend itself against any claims in court. 

The event was the sixth Workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors, which wrapped Sept. 1 at the largest particle physics lab in the world.

“Mergers and acquisitions can work, but only if everyone involved truly knows what they are doing," experts wrote in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

A university in the Lone Star State is readying a master’s degree program that will prepare grad students to work as radiologic “techs” in all 50 states.

Congress has provided billions in relief during the public health emergency, and patient volumes continue to rebound, the commission contended. 

The finding, placing the specialty in the middle of the pack, is part of Medscape’s 2022 Physician Lifestyle & Happiness Report, released Jan. 14. 

Upon commissioning a business process improvement team to meticulously track interpretative uptime, a 13-radiologist group learned its members had been spending nearly as many hours navigating interruptions as reading images.

Functional MRI brain imaging studies have revealed higher brain activity associated with attention and memory for gamers who play three or more hours per day. 

Health at Scale’s Precision Navigation service utilizes machine learning to model variations in outcomes and steer beneficiaries to ideal offerings.

Aiming to prevent delayed or missed care, Northwestern Medicine uses natural language processing to screen signed reports for text that indicates a follow-up recommendation.

Being part of a marginalized racial or ethnic group, along with insurance status, are significantly associated with such "imaging missed care opportunities." 

The Association of University Radiologists recently held its fifth annual roundtable for leaders in academia and the vendor space, with several important themes emerging. 

“More than most companies, Toyota is led from the bottom up as much as from the top down.”

Harvard University took the top spot in the Best Universities for Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging category, with Stanford coming in second.