The current focus on patient-centered care and satisfaction has led imaging providers to pay close attention to wait times. Patients can forgive certain things, but making them wait too long is almost guaranteed to translate into a negative opinion about their experience, no matter what else may have happened during their visit.

Solis Mammography, the Addison, Texas-based independent imaging provider, announced this week that Alexander Sardina, MD, has been hired as the company’s vice president and national medical director.

Lakeshore General Hospital in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, has unveiled its brand new $2 million radiology room, taking Kelsey Litwin of the Montreal Gazette on a tour of the facility. The room features brand new x-ray equipment and is outfitted for surgery.

RESTON, VA (July 27, 2017) — The American College of Radiology (ACR) Annual Conference on Quality and Safety helps radiology practices add value through cost-effective service quality improvement.

Considering the sheer volume of patients visiting emergency departments (EDs) for acute chest pain, properly utilization of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is key to improving triage. Such imaging can identify those at risk of developing acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but not every patient needs to receive CCTA.

Seeing is believing—at least when it comes to smokers who undergo CT scans of their lungs. Those who do are more likely to quit, according to research from a number of U.K. universities.

More than three-quarters of physician specialties, 77 percent, have enjoyed compensation increases over the past year, and radiology is in that happy mix. Diagnostic rads’ median compensation rose 2.6 percent, from $490,399 in 2016 to $503,225 this year.

Once considered some of the most contractually stable and fiscally secure practitioners in all of U.S. medicine, radiologists are today concerned about their very future—and more than a few are right to be worried. From nosediving reimbursement to successive consolidation, from constantly expanding technologies to fitfully pinballing policymaking, the pressures have been varied and unrelenting for years now. What’s more, the pace of change is even now only accelerating. How best to rise to this moment with realistic hopes of emerging stronger than ever?