A watchdog is urging providers to apologize to the now-deceased patient's family and correct weaknesses in image-ordering processes. 

RSNA released a set of guiding principles during the pandemic's early days, and researchers recently set out to gauge imaging providers' adherence, unearthing mixed results. 

First there was PACS: picture archiving and communications systems. Over the last decade, as managing medical imaging has expanded far beyond radiology, enterprise imaging was born. But what is enterprise imaging in its best form?

An unauthorized party was able to make copies of some documents, with a “very limited number” also containing Social Security numbers, Charlotte Radiology said. 

KLAS Research's 2022 report covers more than 1,000 health IT informatics solutions focused on EMRs, staffing, revenue cycle management, patient portals, and more.

KLAS Research's 2022 report includes sections for radiology on PACS, speech recognition, universal viewers, image exchange software and vendor neutral archives.

Also, a new artificial intelligence partnership in stroke care, advertising in imaging offices, and Royal Philips expands its ultrasound portfolio. 

With technology now enabling seamless data transfer, it has become “unacceptable” to force patients and their families to hand-deliver images, experts charged in JACR.