Radiology and cardiology departments have long produced significant imaging volumes, but the volumes of imaging exams performed in other specialties are now easily surpassing that amount.

The FDA has posted an advisory to its website, reminding facilities that if a PACS fails and images are lost for reasons that should have been preventable, action can be taken against the facility for improper compliance. 

Consolidation and change are roiling the healthcare marketplace, and the repercussions are being felt throughout the vendor landscape, including the vibrant imaging IT segment that is so fundamental to the practice of 21st century radiology.

For all its high-tech gadgets, tools, prompts, aids and reminders, the modern radiology report really isn’t all that different from the first of its kind, rendered as a longhand note.

Those who think PACS optimization ends following a successful implementation should think again: Thirteen years after Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health implemented Synapse PACS, the work is ongoing to keep 50-plus radiologists happy and maximally productive.

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit healthcare organization, have collaborated on a new program to increase compliance and consistency within the healthcare marketplace, the organizations announced this week at the RSNA 2015 annual meeting in Chicago.

Konica Minolta, Inc. today announced a package of customizable tools offered within the Exa PACS/RIS/EHR platform that enable healthcare organizations to derive maximum value by leveraging the facility-specific customization tools.

Like so many elves—plumbers is the analogy used by Daniel L. Rubin, MD—at work, a few dozen radiologists took a terminology for coding procedures created by the ACR for teaching purposes and developed it over the past decade into not just a common language but a complete ontology for the specialty of radiology: RadLex.