Background In the United States, patients have the right to access their protected health
information. However, to the knowledge of the authors, no study has evaluated the patient …

As of 1996, HIPAA has granted patients access to all aspects of their medical record,
including imaging studies [1]. Such access has been shown to improve many aspects of …

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine whether presenting providers with cost
information at the point of order entry significantly influences imaging utilization. METHODS …

Purpose To determine the effect of a computerized radiology order entry system rule that
prevented nonclinician support staff from completing orders for outpatient computed …

OBJECTIVE. We sought to determine whether hospitalists specifically reduce inpatient
radiologic testing and radiology costs, which to our knowledge has not previously been …

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate trends in utilization and spending for
medical imaging, using medical visits resulting in imaging as a novel metric of utilization …

In Canada, equal access to health care is the goal, but this is associated with wait times.
Wait times should be fair rather than uniform, taking into account the urgency of the problem …

Objectives and Rationale.—For 10 common clinical presentations, we assessed differences
in physicians' utilization of and charges for diagnostic imaging, depending on whether they …

We studied the efficiency with which clinicians were able to obtain the results of radiologic
studies during visits to the radiology department in an effort to determine how often delays …

Hospital-based radiology departments have struggled over the past decade to respond to
the phenomenal growth in radiology demand, which may be expected to continue for the …