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In health care, just as in any industry, the skills that make a great clinical or technical professional aren’t always the ones that make a great leader.

Now, in the era of high-speed, wireless Internet, cloud computing, and data storage, the networks that support on-demand sharing and viewing of large, high-resolution medical images span the globe.

Portable CT continues to become more popular, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A focus on the patient experience can improve care, revenue and more. Imaging professionals share examples of how this approach has worked for them and their facilities.

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on health care includes image-guided surgical procedures and trends involving ambulatory surgery centers and office-based laboratories.

While the global scientific community worked as one to solve a huge, new problem in real-time, their efforts and discoveries were also frequently undermined by an equally virulent “infodemic.”

At a time when patients’ entire medical histories can be synchronized with high-resolution pictures of their physical tissue itself, imaging has emerged as “a critical partner in clinical care for just about any other specialty, with very few exceptions,” said Dr. Christopher Wald.

From March to June, health care facilities across the United States were shuttered to all non-essential procedures by state order, as the country worked, with mixed results, to respond to the rapidly spreading virus.