Our company is fortunate to have the opportunity to work with a large number of single and multisite imaging centers each year. This affords us the opportunity to observe and benchmark the financial and operating trends of a statistically significant sample size of imaging centers across the nation.

Patient-centered health care has been a buzzword for some time, but the middle ground where patients and their providers meet is always shifting, according to the presenters of a December 3 session at the 2013 annual meeting of the RSNA in Chicago, Illinois. Susan John, MD; Elliot Fishman, MD; and Brent Wagner, MD, presented “Patient-Centered Radiology” to explore how engagement with patients is changing. As Wagner puts it, “All the things we might do to make our practices more patient-centric are a balancing act between opportunities and challenges.”

I attended my first annual meeting of the RSNA in 2006. I was, to put it mildly, unprepared. I remember being first astonished and then exhausted by its scale. I also remember carrying a cell phone—not a smartphone (and not even a phone with a camera), but just a regular old flip phone, good for nothing but talking and texting. On the exhibition floor, 64-slice CT was big news. PACS developers told me that they had a hard time getting some radiologists to use email, much less their new Web-based tools.

HR 3705 would require clinicians to utilize clinical decision support tools to help them adhere to appropriateness criteria for advanced imaging

The bipartisan budget deal the House debates today would continue the 2% across-the-board sequester on Medicare payments through 2023 and pushes out the timeline for repealing the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for calculating Medicare physician payments

Although operating revenue declined in 2013, the value of the total assets of the American College of Radiology (ACR) continues to climb

New Federal spending figures have prompted the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to reduce its estimate for the total cost of repealing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that 18.4% of the lung cancers detected with low-dose CT in the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial may have been indolent