HealthLeadersMedia | The Office for Civil Rights has revealed the top areas of interest on its HIPAA privacy and security compliance radar. Adam Greene, former senior health information technology and privacy advisor at OCR and now partner at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine in Washington,...
DiagnosticImaging | The radiology field will soon have a professional development and leadership academy. Next year, the American College of Radiology will open the Radiology Leadership Institute, a multi-level academy that will offer leadership courses and activities. The Radiology Leadership Institute will offer a range of...
ImagingEconomics | Incidental findings can lead to unnecessary testing, expense, and malpractice suits. Radiologists inevitably worry about missing something, but an equally vexing part of the job is seeing too much. Looking for one thing and finding another—the so-called "incidentaloma"—has long been a familiar conundrum...
AuntMinnie | Researchers at Stanford University are working on a dedicated breast MRI coil with smaller coil elements, which they believe could result in sharper images and up to three times the sensitivity of standard MRI coils. The coil design could prove better suited for following...
DiagnosticImaging | A formidably named bit of technology can open a new window into pancreas function, according to a new study in the journal Radiology. Serial magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) with a spatially selective inversion-recovery (IR) pulse can provide insights into pancreatic flow noninvasively, Japanese...