McKesson’s business performance services division has won the business of Elmhurst Radiologists, a 12-doc practice operating within 259-bed Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, part of the three-hospital Edward-Elmhurst system outside Chicago.

The largest daily newspaper in Nevada has done radiology a kindness. On a Sunday in late March, the Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday circ: 200,000-plus), ran a feature article titled “Radiologists play a key role in modern medicine.”

I’ve worked in radiology IT leadership for more than 20 years, but over the past year and a half, I’ve learned more about all three—radiology, IT and leadership—than in the previous 18 years combined.

Two mandates are driving U.S. healthcare policy: improving quality and reducing costs. At vRad, leadership has embraced these concepts and integrated them into its corporate mission.

The pace of innovation has quickened considerably during the past 18 months at vRad, ever since Ben Strong MD, chief medical officer, found a willing collaborator in CIO Shannon Werb.

While roughly 10 million Americans have been newly insured under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), healthcare providers apparently aren’t being overwhelmed by new patients, according to a new report.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is putting into effect a contingency plan to avoid a 21% cut to Medicare physician reimbursements scheduled to go into effect Wednesday, April 1.

North Dakota has put into law a measure setting licensing standards and expanding the responsibilities of the state’s radiographers, radiation therapist, radiology assistants, nuclear medicine technologists, and sonographers.