Two Wisconsin-based companies, NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes and SHINE Medical Technologies, have received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for the development of medical isotopes.

The AHRA 2015 Virtual Fall Conference dives into specific practices that can help leaders turn each and every person in their organization into a prepared, confident problem solver.

Anxiety is often cited as a “harm” of screening mammography, perhaps most famously when the United States Preventive Services Task Force listed it, along with false-positives, as reasons average-risk women ages 40 to 49 should not get routine mammograms. 

Rhode Island Medical Imaging (RIMI), a network of private imaging facilities founded in 1943, has acquired Radiology Associates, the company announced this week.

A hospital seeking to replace CT technology that does not meet the XR-29 standard has a wide range of slice counts and capabilities to consider, all the way up to state-of-the-art—but pricey—dual energy CT (DECT).

There were multiple delays. There were conflicting survey results on whether healthcare organizations were adequately prepared. There was end-to-end testing, guidance, tools and much debate.

Two experienced radiologists—Richard L. Wahl, MD, and Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD—have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, previously known as the Institute of Medicine. 

AmSurg, a Nashville, Tenn.-based operator of ambulatory surgery centers, has announced a $7.8 billion proposal to merge with TeamHealth in a stock-and-cash deal that would result in 50/50 ownership. According to AmSurg, the merger would create a network of more than 1,200 healthcare facilities and approximately 20,000 clinicians.