Demand for radiology has dropped according to Merritt Hawkins’ 2012 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives. Radiology, which was Merritt Hawkins’ most requested specialty in 2003, ranked only 18th in 2011-2012.

The FDA has cleared GE Healthcare’s new cardiac imaging platform, the Discovery CT750 HD FREEdom Edition. According to the press release, the FREEdom Edition is designed to address the main challenges of cardiac imaging: coronary motion, calcium blooming, plaque composition and accurate myocardial perfusion.

The executive director of the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) decried “humongous hits” to radiation oncology last week, a sentiment that echoes earlier statements from the president of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Hospital Compare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website that provides the public with data on various hospital quality measures, has added two more outpatient medical imaging use statistics.

Crux Biomedical announced it has received FDA clearance for its new Crux Vena Cava Filter (VCF), which Crux Biomedical claims is the first and only VCF designed to facilitate bi-directional retrieval through either the femoral or jugular veins, a key consideration when access to one or the other vein is limited.

As an eye surgeon, Sen. Rand Paul, MD (R, Ky.), knows the problems associated with the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that helps determine Medicare physician pay. However, eliminating the SGR may not have been his only motivation in introducing the Access to Physicians in Medicare Act (S. 3337), and that makes it a non-started with Democrats

Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio, has purchased River View Imaging Center from Columbus-based Mount Carmel Health System for a little more than $800,000, according to a Lancaster Eagle-Gazette report.

Crestwood Hospital and the city of Madison, Alabama held a ceremony on July 12, to break ground on a new $7.5 million outpatient diagnostic and imaging facility.