It was a gutsy move even by the standards of the borough that is home to the New York Yankees, the birthplace of hip-hop, and the largest zoo in the East: At just 23 years old, with no direct experience in healthcare, Joel Reisman decided to dive into the deep end of the outpatient medical imaging business in the Bronx.

According to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, an integrated EHR is a bigger priority to radiologists than having access to the most advanced clinical features.

What an up-and-down, fast-and-slow, twisting, turning run ICD-10 has been on over the last four seasons. 

Mach7 Technologies, an enterprise image management company based out of Burlington, Vt., announced this week it now has a patent in the U.S. for handheld medical imaging. 

Despite some general concerns about keeping data safe and secure, cloud-based image storage was up in 2015, according to a recent report published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Call it a "modest proposal" for radiology. For a recent satirical article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, Richard B. Gunderman, MD, and Benjamin R. Gray, MD, Indiana University department of radiology, had a little fun at the expense of the imaging industry. 

Merge Healthcare and MedAllies are collaborating to improve interoperability for almost 300,000 physicians, the companies announced this week.

Radiology and cardiology departments have long produced significant imaging volumes, but the volumes of imaging exams performed in other specialties are now easily surpassing that amount.