ATHENS, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Outpatient Diagnostic Center (“ODC”), a medical imaging provider with locations in Huntsville and Madison, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Athens based Valley Imaging and a long term alliance with its radiologist, Joe Cannon, MD.

Digirad Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of medical diagnostic imaging systems, has acquired MD Office Solutions, Inc., a mobile diagnostic imaging provider that services customers in Northern California.

Radiologists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have blazed a new trail in social media, making their workplace the first hospital to have its own channel via an image-sharing app unofficially dubbed “Instagram for doctors.”

A new system for compensating patients in cases of medical malpractice is now being considered in the Georgia state legislature. If the proposed legislation is passed, it would transform the current medical tort system in that state into an administrative system.

The performance of a radiologist when interpreting screening mammography varies according to which mammographic technologist performs the examination, according to a study in March issue of Academic Radiology.

One of the criteria for providers of lung cancer screening for Medicare patients is that they submit data to a CMS-approved registry for each lung-cancer screening study performed: The ACR Lung Cancer Screening registry just became the first CMS-approved registry for providers of this service.

Research presented this week at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta demonstrate that an innovative IR treatment can be used to treat chronic conditions that afflict millions of Americans and result in millions of visits to emergency rooms and physician offices.

When it comes to the awareness and knowledge of breast density, apparently not all women are alike, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.rl