Business Intelligence

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.

Intermountain Healthcare to Track Patients' Cumulative Radiation Exposure

The Salt Lake City, Utah-based nonprofit health system that has made a name for itself as an innovator is now the first such organization to tackle the problem of how to monitor patients' cumulative radiation exposure over a lifetime

CBO Budget Report Confirms No Savings From Imaging Prior Authorization

In its report on the President’s 2014 fiscal budget, the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) agreed with the White House that no savings should be anticipated from requiring third-party prior authorization for advanced imaging services — news that gave those opposed to the requirement another opportunity to make their case

Henry Ford-Beaumont Merger Called Off

Merger talks between the two Detroit-area health systems ended over differences in corporate cultures and concerns from Beaumont’s clinical chiefs, reports Crain’s Detroit Business

Medical Insight Updates their Imaging Solution and Releases Mobile Viewer

Medical Insight has released EasyViz 5.0, its latest diagnostic imaging solution, along with EasyViz Enterprise Web, a mobile image viewer

Hologic Receives FDA Approval for New Breast Tomosynthesis Software

Hologic's new C-View 2D imaging software got the green light from the FDA, a development that will lead to less scanning time and lower radiation for patients, the company says

ACR Teleradiology Task Force Proposes Guidelines

The 1-year-old ACR Teleradiology Task Force has published its first best-practice guidelines for teleradiology in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR)

GE Healthcare Breaks Ground on S.C. Helium Liquefaction Facility

The $17 million helium liquefaction facility in Florence, S.C., will be an extension of GE’s current MR production plant there. The plant uses roughly 5.5 million liters of helium a year in the manufacture of MR devices, the company said

ACR Seeks to Raise $5 Million for Leadership Institute

The ACR knows that keeping radiology central to the delivery of high quality health care will not happen without strong leadership, and it wants to put some serious money behind its effort to grow the next generation of radiology leaders

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.