Hospital patients appreciate it when facilities have been prettied up for eye appeal and ambience. However, when they feel dissatisfied with the care they receive, even the nicest amenities won’t sway their overall opinion of the place. 

Patients tend to overestimate the benefits from medical tests and treatments such as mammography or PSA testing, and underestimate the harms, according to an article in the February issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.  

Lawmakers in Missouri are renewing efforts to formally license the state’s radiologic technologists, assistants and practitioner assistants.

Nearly 20% of American adults suffer with chronic daily migraines and turn to various pills as their first line of relief. A new, minimally invasive treatment designed and tested by interventional radiologists may offer an effective alternative with zero side effects. 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz./EWORLDWIRE/March 2, 2015 --- PHS Technologies Group LLC, a division of PACSHealth LLC, and developer of innovative software that records and analyzes ionizing radiation data from medical imaging procedures, today announced that multi-state radiology services provider Strategic Radiology (SR) will begin to use PHS's DoseMonitor 2.0 to monitor patient radiation exposure in its patient safety organization (PSO).

“A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events, the vaguer it becomes,” George Orwell wrote in Shooting an Elephant. The elephant hunt begins this week as the debate over the language used in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes center stage in the US Supreme Court.

On February 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an extension to the attestation deadline for Medicare EHR Incentive Program reporting periods that occurred in calendar year (CY) 2014. 

Reston, Va. (Feb. 25, 2015) — New and updated American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria® now help healthcare providers  choose the most appropriate medical imaging exam or radiation therapy for more than 1000 clinical indications.  These continually updated criteria are a national standard developed by expert panels of physicians from many different medical specialties.