What do you do with legacy data-storage applications containing near-antique patient information—so old it hasn’t been accessed in up to 20 years—that may yet be needed for legal, financial, clinical or population-management purposes?

It’s T-minus two and a half years, give or take, on the liftoff of Meaningful Use stage 3. In 2018, every eligible hospital and eligible professional must attest to a single set of eight objectives—or suffer reduced Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements—in what is expected to be the final and definitive MU stage.

When comparing the three imaging report types used in an emergency setting, both radiologists and referring physicians prefer itemized reports (IR) over basic structured reports (BSR) and point-and-click reports (PCR), according to a survey published in Academic Radiology.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—(May 11, 2015) vRad (Virtual Radiologic), the nation’s leading telemedicine company and radiology practice, announced that its Director of Medical Informatics Thomas F. Osborne, MD will give the presentation “Collaborating for Innovation: A CMO–CIO Partnership for Diagnostic Efficiencies and Quality” at the Digital Health Innovation Summit at Le Méridien Hotel in Philadelphia on May 14 at 9:50 am ET. The summit provides a forum for senior leaders and executives looking to utilize, innovate and develop digital initiatives within healthcare.

When surgical procedures are not an option, radiofrequency (RF) ablation can be an effective treatment of colorectal lung metastases, resulting in a 5-year survival rate for more than 51% of subjects in a recent study, published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Patients prefer to receive imaging exam results from their referring physician and not a radiologist, according to a study featured in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Senate leaders have formed a bipartisan group to establish ways to identify ways to improve EHRs in the United States.

The deadline for ICD-10 implementation is rapidly approaching, but a new House bill threatens to stop the new code system from ever coming to fruition.