No one on the business side of radiology is likely to question the key finding from a recent analysis of healthcare spending in 2013: Spending growth decelerated 0.05% in 2013. Spending increased just 3.6%—compared to 4.1% in 2012—to $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person.

Leaders in all sectors of American business have been leaning on John Kotter’s 1996 change management Bible, Leading Change, for close to 20 years.

Imaging 3.0 is the ACR’s manifesto for moving radiologists from volume-based to value-based care; transactional to consultative medicine; radiologist-centered to patient-centered care; and finally, after years of discussion, from invisible to visible, or at least more accountable, explains Syed Zaidi, MD, president, Radiology Associates of Canton, Ohio.

There’s a fire down below, and it’s not global warming

The ubiquity of mobile computing across society and throughout healthcare has sharply raised expectations around the speed of communications. Where once referring physicians anticipated waits of several days to receive radiology reports, whether by courier, fax or sometimes even snail mail, they now bristle at lag times measured in hours or even minutes. Increasingly, patients want the same for themselves.

When CMS issued its immediately effective coverage decision on screening LDCT for high-risk lung cancer patients on February 5, 2015, it left some important questions unanswered for providers, including how much it will pay for the procedure.

Women who are informed about the risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment when it comes to mammography are less likely to undergo a breast cancer screening exam, according to a new study in the journal Lancet.

A study from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine shows that there is significant value in performing additional PET/CT scans in the follow-up of lung cancer patients.