Rapid Radiology, a Lakeway, Texas-based radiology and telemedicine company, has announced the acquisition of Advanced Medical Imaging & Teleradiology (AMI). The terms of the deal were not made public. 

According to a recent report, Toshiba is considering selling its medical equipment business subsidiary, Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., to Fujifilm Holdings.

Sectra, the international medical IT and technology company, has signed a multi-year contract with Norrbottens Läns Landsting (NLL), a county council in Sweden, to provide its cloud services for handling radiology images and patient information.

The $1.1 trillion spending bill passed by Congress last week has earned high marks from numerous imaging societies, including the American College of Radiology and Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance. Now, the Academy of Radiology Research has also shown its support for the bill, applauding the $16.8 million increase in funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

RadNet and radiology technology company Imaging Advantage have announced the beginning of a multi-year collaboration, which will take advantage of both RadNet’s outpatient experience and Imaging Advantage’s cloud-based technologies. 

As the "volume to value" movement reshapes healthcare economics across the U.S., radiology is reminded daily that it is by no means exempt from the new and somewhat nebulous fiscal demands.

It was 40 years ago this year—on Nov. 30, 1975, to be precise—that RSNA put Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton in its rearview and moved its scientific assembly and annual meeting to McCormick Place. With three exceptions (Atlanta in ’79, Dallas in ’80 and Washington in ’84), radiology’s big dance has been there ever since. 

CHICAGO—Every radiology practice in the midst of, or soon to face, tough contract negotiations with a hospital would do well to bone up on “excess benefit” sanctions and rule changes around no-cause contract termination.