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Software enabling work-from-home radiologists to choose which non-emergency scans they read and report on can lengthen turnaround times for lower-priority images, according to new West Virginia University research. Those delays prevent hospital beds from being cleared and reassigned, increasing hospital costs and patient dissatisfaction.

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