As their duties are seemingly always piled sky-high, radiologists often wonder which aspects of their job they can trust to automated technology. Selecting protocols for standard CT and MRI exams could be one of them, a group of Detroit researchers reported this month in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

MEDNAX announced Tuesday, April 24, the acquisition of Women’s Radiology Associates, a private radiology practice in Houston.

As the sheer volume of medical imaging data across U.S. healthcare continues to soar, and as burgeoning technologies like AI and enterprise imaging continue to gain altitude, imaging informatics professionals working in healthcare find themselves challenged to keep up. For this reason, many repeat attendees of the annual meetings of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine are likely to find SIIM 2018 among the most consequential in memory. Cheryl K. Carey, MBA, the organization’s new executive director—installed last November—took questions from RBJ during the runup to the event.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has issued a statement recommending Aetna reverse its decision not to cover the use of gallium Ga 68 dotatate PET or fluciclovine F18 PET for treating cancer patients.

Here’s a twist on that old philosophical mind game about a tree falling in a forest when no one’s around to hear it. If a medical journal gets published and no one bothers to read it, does it do anything meaningful for medicine?

West Feliciana Hospital (WFH) has been serving patients in the small town of St. Francisville, Louisiana, since 1970, but its imaging capabilities were limited for a long time. As a result, the hospital gained a bit of a reputation among referring physicians in the area—when in doubt, they would just avoid WFH altogether and send patients more than 30 miles away to Baton Rouge.

A lung cancer patient’s chance of survival after radiotherapy could hinge on a matter of millimeters, researchers reported at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology’s (ESTRO) 2018 conference in Barcelona.

The profession of radiology may rightly regard 2017 as an extended coming-out party for AI within the specialty. At ACR’s annual meeting in May, the keynote speeches all revolved around the changes AI will bring. AI occupied an entire quadrant of space, including a dedicated stage, at the RSNA annual meeting in the fall. Seemingly dozens of startups, along with numerous established companies, lined up in vendor booths ready to dazzle you with the next generation of radiology technology.

Mie Bowman, a 36-year-old breast cancer survivor, started a business in Japan that designs undershirts with built-in bras for women experiencing discomfort due to breast cancer.

Since the introduction of the concept of an interventional radiology ambulatory surgery center (“irASC”) in 2016, there’s been an explosion in the number of billing codes that permit irASCs to collect for outpatient interventional procedures.