Radiology companies Teleradiology Specialists and UrgentRad announced this week that they have merged to offer “enhanced capabilities and services.” The companies will officially go by the Teleradiology Specialists name, starting later this year.

Work has been put on hold at two National Institutes of Health (NIH) facilities after evidence was found that the laboratories are “not in compliance with quality and safety standards.”

ACR 2016, the annual meeting of the American College of Radiology (ACR), is less than one month away. Cheri L. Canon, MD, ACR 2016 program chair, spoke with RadiologyBusiness.com about the upcoming meeting, which begins May 15 in Washington, D.C. 

U.S. hospitals continued their double-digit growth in EHR adoption, according to a new study published in Health Affairs, achieving a 75.2% adoption rate by the end of 2014.

Professional, business, and regulatory paradigm shifts occurring in interventional radiology present a new opportunity for interventional radiologists and their groups: Profiting from ownership of interventional radiology ambulatory surgery centers (“irASCs”).

We turned to Thomas Hoffman, JD, CAE, associate general counsel for the ACR, to explore the potential liabilities associated with bringing outside images into the organization’s PACS.

For the second time, the HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a confusing advisory opinion on payment of transcription costs by radiologists, concluding once again that such a financial arrangement would not violate the federal anti-kickback statute.

In the communication of actionable radiologic findings, the human voice trumps all