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Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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ACR, Society of Breast Imaging Support ACOG Mammography Guidelines

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Society of Breast Imaging yesterday announced that they “applaud and support” updated American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) recommendations that women begin to receive annual mammograms at age 40. The updated ACOG recommendations, published in the August 2011 issue of Obstetrics

Senators to Obama: No More Imaging Cuts

A bipartisan group of senators, among them John Kerry (D-MA), Herb Kohl (D-WI). and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), yesterday sent a letter to the Obama Administration protesting the inclusion of any diagnostic imaging cuts in legislation to raise the debt ceiling. The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the ACR-co-founded Access to Medical Imaging

ACR Requests Improvements to Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has formally asked for improvements to the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act (H.R. 1394/S. 752), which calls for the development of a comprehensive government strategy to spark a 50% decrease in lung cancer mortality by 2020 and initiate a demonstration project that would permit lung cancer patient

Physicians Eager to Try Out ACOs, Executive Says

Most physicians recognize that the U.S. health care system is inefficient and must change. As such, they are eager to give accountable care organizations (ACOs) a try.

FDA Alert Focuses On Potential Rubidium Overexposure

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an alert to the medical community and the public in general about the potential for inadvertent, increased radiation exposure in patients who underwent or will be undergoing cardiac PET scans with rubidium (Rb)-82 chloride injection from CardioGen-82 (manufactured by Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. of

Hospital Execs Uncertain ACOs Will Actually Improve Quality and Efficiency

There are many reasons hospital executives may be planning to form Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), but belief in the potential of ACOs to improve care delivery does not appear to be at the top of that list according to a survey released this week.

FDA Draft Guidance Includes Medical Imaging Apps

Medical imaging apps are included in a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance document covering the regulation of mobile medical applications used on smartphones and other mobile computing devices.

Health Care Prices Show Slight Increase

Overall U.S. health care prices showed a slight, steady increase in June, rising by 0.1%, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The agency’s Producer Price Indices (PPI), which measure average changes in selling prices received by domestic producers for their output, peg prices across the range of health care industries at 1.7%

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