In the latest study to question the benefits of mammographic screening for breast cancer, the authors of a study published online in the Annals of Oncology concluded that trends in advanced breast cancer incidence do not bear out that regular mammographic screening in parts of the world where it is available lead to a decline in mortality.

Several independent imaging centers throughout the Southeast have joined together to form the Outpatient Imaging Coalition (OIC), an alliance aimed at promoting the availability of high-quality imaging services available at a cost lower than that charged by hospitals.

Private sector health care employment in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 10.7% of total employment in January 2011, according to a report based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and released by Altarum Institute’s Center for Studying Health Spending. Such growth represents an increase of more than one percentage point since the

The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) has activated a multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the effect of cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) and single photon emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI) on outcomes in patients with stable angina.

A thought occurred to me recently, as I worked with a rather large and very successful radiology practice: Radiologists in private practice who have built organizations functioning at high levels have done so, for the most part, without the benefit of a formal education in business. Trial and error, management by instinct, and the force of tenacity

Is it goodbye to radiology benefit management (RBM) companies and hello to automated decision-support systems? Not really, as the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Nonetheless, computerized decision-support tools are gaining ground in the outpatient setting.

Radiologists have become PACS experts, sometimes by default. Because diagnostic images made the greatest demands on early information systems in health care, the most sophisticated systems were first developed to handle these images and associated data. These systems became PACS, which grew out of the homegrown image-management systems of academic

Ask cardiac imagers from both sides of the care team—cardiology and radiology—what they see as the most critical advance in imaging technology, and their answers all have one thing in common: dose reduction. “Prospective gating (or step and shoot) is one; iterative reconstruction is another,” according to Charles White, MD, chief of thoracic