More than 65 physicians and staff at Denver-based Diversified Radiology will join US Radiology Specialists, a North Carolina-based imaging facility. Specifically, Diversified Radiology will bring its teleradiology services to the US Radiology team in an effort to provide 24-hour radiology services.

Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman, Montana, settled a three-year-old federal lawsuit alleging the hospital had a “sham” joint venture with Advanced Medical Imaging, a radiology group, that the plaintiffs alleged was looking to open its own outpatient imaging center.

Three researchers—Pedram Heidari, MD, Prashant Nagpal, MD and Adam Singer, MD—have been awarded 2018 Canon Medical Systems USA/RSNA Research Seed Grants by the RSNA Research & Education (R&E) Foundation.

The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) in Columbia has announced it is the first domestic supplier of Iodine-131 (I-131), a radioisotope used to diagnose and treat thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism, in the last 30 years.

Visla Labs, a San Francisco, California-based startup focused on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, has raised $3 million in funding to “grow its team, scale product features, attain regulatory approval and fuel expansion and growth.” 

Sina Tavakoli, MD, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, has received the 2018 Strategic Radiology/RSNA Research Seed Grant to study the imaging of macrophages in atherosclerosis.

The Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) has asked the federal government to invest CAD $625 million (approximately USD $477 million) in medical imaging equipment throughout Canada.

Nonradiologists are performing more diagnostic and interventional imaging examinations now than ever before. In fact, according to a new study published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, reimbursements for those services make up a significant proportion of overall Medicare payments for many highly-reimbursed physicians from a variety of specialties.