While informatics and information technology tools are essential, individuals can take a number of steps to improve their day-to-day productivity.

Duke University Medical Center scheduled additional exams for 60% of incidental findings, and many were later diagnosed as serious problems.

If some form of practice consolidation is in your radiology practice’s present or future, you should know that many tactical errors are made around the difficulty of sharing information across disparate legacy PACS packages and other peripheral solutions used by newly conjoining practices, departments or organizations. 

A “lean” system improvement analysis conducted by interventional radiologists at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine in Chapel Hill was able to help streamline workflow and cut technologist and nurse overtime hours by 20 percent and 57 percent, respectively.

Sentinelle Medical, a manufacturer of breast MRI coils and software, and advanced visualization technology developer Calgary Scientific have entered a long-term strategic development agreement.

Utilization of 3D reconstructions from contrast-enhanced MRI as part of a uterine artery embolization (UAE) preprocedure enables clinicians to determine the best tube angle obliquity for fluoroscopic visualization of the origin of the uterine artery. This significantly reduces fluoroscopy time, radiation dose and contrast medium volume during that procedure, according to research published in this months issue of Radiology.

The use of a 3D inversion recovery gradient-recalled echo sequence at 3T MRI allows accurate assessment of myocardial infarction without loss of contrast-to-noise ratio compared with a standard 2D technique, according to research published this month in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Synnex, a business process services company, has partnered with Allscripts to distribute Allscripts' MyWay EHR to authorized resellers via its Synnex Healthcare Solutions Division.