Dear Imaging Leaders Insider,
It may be no surprise that communication failures have been shown to be a key cause of medical malpractice suits. But what may shock you is that although radiologists aren't usually the primary specialist named in malpractice suits, they are the top doctors named as secondary specialists.
Researchers at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center found that the growth in diagnostic test volume has led to a corresponding increase in reportable results -- thus exposing specialists such as radiologists to more medical malpractice risk. Find out more by clicking here.
When you've finished reading our featured article, check out the rest of the Imaging Leaders Digital Community:
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- Learn how virtual colonoscopy screening advocates are continuing to lobby for reimbursement.
- Find out more about California's dose reporting bill via our coverage of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine's (SIIM) first regional meeting.
As always, if you have a comment or report to share about any aspect of diagnostic imaging practice, management, administration, regulation, or financing, please contact me.
