Chicago watched its beloved Cubbies win the World Series earlier this month, and now the city welcomes the imaging industry for another exciting week of breaking news, fascinating presentations and state-of-the-art medical technology. What a fun November for the Windy City! With another RSNA officially underway at McCormick Place, what are you looking forward to the most this year? For me, it all boils down to one thing: the people. 

By attempting to shatter the status quo and shift toward value-based care, the radiology industry is, in a way, sacrificing today’s monetary gains for a better tomorrow. It’s a smart, impressively noble move, but one that hasn’t been easy—and likely won’t get much easier in the immediate future. 

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis received funding for two grants totaling $34 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the “Lifespan Human Connectome Project."

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a burgeoning modality that offers many advantages over basic digital mammography, including a wide range of uses both inside and outside of mammography. While there are minor drawbacks with DBT, radiology departments would benefit from increased utilization, according to an article published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Radiologists have a unique ability to affect public health by virtue of their central role in preventative medicine, primarily through cancer screening. As the care paradigm moves from volume to value, radiologists can improve screening through direct patient engagement and coordination with health providers, write Farouk Dako, MD, and colleagues.

It was early 2015 when the team at Carilion Clinic decided they had outgrown their PACS and needed to replace their decade-old system.

Mary Mahoney, MD, spoke with imagingBiz about what life is like as a department chair and shared her thoughts on several hot topics affecting breast imaging today.

German health IT provider CompuGroup Medical SE has approached Belgian company Agfa-Gevaert about a potential acquisition by way of a public takeover.