The FDA has posted an advisory to its website, reminding facilities that if a PACS fails and images are lost for reasons that should have been preventable, action can be taken against the facility for improper compliance. 

All critical access hospitals provide basic imaging services, but not all of them provide more advanced services such as MRI, CT, ultrasound, or mammography.

With radiology continuing to refine its niche in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment, Sruti Nataraja, MPH, managing director at the Advisory Board Company, believes that one of the major themes coming out the past year is, “The consumer-driven health care market has arrived.”

With the possible exception of diffusion-tensor MRI for concussion in athletes, no clinical imaging procedure stands a chance of bumping information technology-with its attendant ripple effects on regulatory compliance and business performance-off radiology’s figurative front page in 2016.

As the "volume to value" movement reshapes healthcare economics across the U.S., radiology is reminded daily that it is by no means exempt from the new and somewhat nebulous fiscal demands.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—(December 8, 2015) vRad (Virtual Radiologic), an affiliate of MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD) and the leading national teleradiology services and telemedicine company, has successfully reached a critical milestone outlined as part of its commitment to the growing branch of artificial intelligence known as “Deep Learning” announced in June 2015.

The lack of women in diagnostic radiology residencies does not appear to be the result of any sort of discrimination or gender bias against women, at least according to a recent study of one school published in Academic Radiology. 

NEC Display Solutions of America announced this week that Jennifer Cheh is the company’s new vice president of marketing. Cheh was previously Motorola’s director of marketing operations for North America.