The American College of Radiology (ACR) has issued a statement detailing the pros and cons of including breast density information in patient summaries.

With hundreds of thousands of devices on the market, malfunctions are always a possibility. This week, Boston Scientifics Cognis and Teligen defibrillators are under fire after it was found that the transformer component may malfunction and may have led to a patient death.

White matter injury on term MRI of very preterm-born infants is predictive of future cognitive impairment, according to a study published in the May issue of Pediatrics. This discovery further supports the benefit of obtaining term MRI for very preterm-born infants, according to the authors.

Thirty-three percent of providers interviewed were planning to purchase an inpatient computer-assisted coding (CAC) technology within the next two years, based on a report from market research firm KLAS.

There are potential pitfalls of calculating hospital readmission rates solely based on nonvalidated administrative datasets, according to an article published in the April issue of Neurosurgery.

Source: Radiology 2012;263:537-546Iterative reconstruction of pediatric chest and abdominal CT images nearly halved radiation dose, while maintaining image quality and diagnostic confidence, according to a study published in the May issue of Radiology.

Electronic prescribing should document treatment indication to monitor off-label use, according to an Archives of Internal Medicine article published online April 16.

With the right technology deployed in the right way, such that the combo demonstrably improves care across a patient population, even a small hospital can bring about big changeincluding convincing a state medical board to revise a once-unbendable rule.