lifeIMAGE, a medical image exchange platform based in Waltham, Mass., has acquired women’s imaging network Mammosphere, according to a company press release.

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.