
Employing computed tomography (CT) scans has both advantages and risks. CT has led to revolutionary enhancements in the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases, as well as nearly ending the need for exploratory surgery and many other invasive procedures. The risk involved is that a CT scan delivers 70 times as much radiation as a chest x-ray.
Measuring Lifetime Health Risk
Networking and privacy issues are top concerns for managing imaging data in the cloud, which was a topic addressed at the recent RNSA conference. According to 
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Over the last several years, emergency department overcrowding has become a troubling issue, one that can become an easy scapegoat for the massive health care cost overruns we have become accustomed to hearing about.
One of radiology’s biggest thinkers, University of Chicago School of Medicine vice-chair of radiology informatics, 
There’s no shortage of commentary on what the consequences of changing from a fee-for-service model to
In the business world, “gatekeeper” has come to be known as the person who controls access to the decision maker. In medicine, a primary care physician monitors a patient’s health care and serves as gatekeeper for HMO services. If you’re a radiologist reading this, it’s likely that you’ve never considered yourself a gatekeeper of anything.