A breast imager offers the subspecialty as a model for radiology’s transition from volume to value.

Have you noticed a sharp uptick in merger and acquisition activity in radiology?

Far from being marginalized, radiology can survive and thrive as one of the most valuable players in a population health world, but it will need to prove its strategic value to health systems.

Researchers have interrogated the DRG database to come up with initial targets for help with negotiating bundled payments.

With reimbursement for low-dose CT lung cancer screening assured, radiology will be called on to play an important role in the development and operation of screening programs.

Becoming a value-driven partner to hospital clients in the challenging quest to remake healthcare is the best insurance against commoditization. 

If necessity is the mother of invention, compassion must be something like the uncle of ingenuity. We’ve seen as much at points of care in U.S. medical imaging over the past few weeks. 

A recent study in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that FDG-PET after three cycles of chemotherapy can prevent patients with early-stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma from undergoing subsequent radiotherapy.