3 lessons radiologists can learn from today’s fast-paced business world

Big changes are everywhere in today’s business world, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. So what, exactly, does this mean for radiology?

Breast cancers that develop between routine screening exams are likely to grow more rapidly and be associated with poorer prognosis than cancers that are present at the time of screening mammography but go undetected, researchers have reported in JAMA Oncology.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and American Medical Association (AMA) recommend that patient education resources be written between a third- and seventh-grade reading level to ensure a maximum number of patients can comprehend the information.

It may not be the most popular career path for radiology newcomers, but offering residents the option of a clinician-educator track (CET) could help to solidify the future of radiology education, a team out of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta wrote in Academic Radiology this month.

Former University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) radiologist Marios D. Papachristou waived indictment and pleaded guilty May 3 to federal charges of healthcare fraud and illegally distributing controlled substances to non-patients, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced.

The Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a $1 million donation from the estate of Linda Garner Riggs, a former Arkansas insurance commissioner who died in November 2017. The money will be used to fund research into triple negative breast cancer.

iSchemaView announced this week it has received FDA clearance for RAPID CTA, the most recent addition to the company’s neuroimaging platform.