The Internal Revenue Service is moving toward a more flexible approach when evaluating contacts between tax-exempt entities—such as many hospitals—and private, for-profit entities such as radiology groups.

The technological “productivity paradox”—the lag between a given technology’s implementation and its delivery of anything of real value—is a problem in all industries but may be worst of all in healthcare. 

RSNA President Richard Baron, MD, delivered the RSNA 16 opening address to a packed Arie Crown Theater, kicking off a week of radiological education in Chicago.

Radiation oncology can use non-technological advances within patient-centered care and shared decision making to support “high quality, high value” care while also enhancing and changing clinical trials on cancer treatments, according to a study published in the Journal of American College of Radiology.

New findings about Zika’s effects have surfaced in a study conducted on 12 babies whose mothers were infected with Zika. The babies, who are in Brazil, have microcephaly, a condition caused by Zika that damages the brain, reports The New York Times.

The past two decades have seen a drastic decline in enteral access procedures among Medicare patients, according to a study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Four simple strategies can improve the value of radiologist reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Data suggests that various forms of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases share some of the same underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease, and a group of researchers are committed to studying in treatment for one type of brain disease could possibly be effective in treating others.