In a recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology, researchers note that 10 percent of elderly U.S. adults experience mistreatment each year. Although radiologists don’t have specific training in detecting and identifying elder abuse, the interest in learning has been steadily increasing.

In recent years, there has been a surge for diagnostic imaging services. However, a shortage of radiologists has made it difficult to keep up demands. To balance the workload, a Phillipine startup company, Lifestrack Medical Systems (LMS), has created enhanced software.

Leading medical imaging providers in Washington State, TRA Medical Imaging (TRA) and Medical Imaging Northwest (MINW), have officially completed a merger and will begin operating under TRA-MINW starting Jan. 1, 2017.

Faculty from the  top-ranked University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center published a review of staging breast cancer via sonography and the TNM system in The American Journal of Roentgenology.  

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida collected a quarter billion dollars for taxpayers this fiscal year 2016 from high-profile cases involving civil enforcement cases, most alleging radiology and health care fraud.

While they are paid significantly less than their male counterparts, female physicians may be superior. According JAMA Internal Medicine, an estimated 32,000 fewer Medicare patients alone would die each year if male physicians were as adept as female physicians.

Imaging societies and advocacy groups nearly universally decried CMS’s decision to not revisit Medicare coverage for CT colonography (CTC). CTC has endorsements from major players including the American Cancer Society, American College of Radiology and the Food and Drug Administration.   

Surface Oncology, an immuno-oncology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has appointed a new chief medical officer as it amps up its antibody product.