The Green Mountain State is in the news for more than the entry of Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders into the 2016 race for president. A pilot healthcare-delivery project there experiments with removing a rule currently requiring patients to get pre-approval from their health plans for MRIs. 

Two medical centers in Vermont kick off a new pilot program on May 1 that circumvents the onerous pre-authorization process by preapproving selected lumbar spine MRIs.

Internet technology has come a long way since the days of screeching dial tones and “you’ve got mail.” The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago are collaborating on a new clinical trial that involves performing tele-robotic ultrasound exams over the Internet.

Providers are just eight months away from facing 5% penalties from Medicare for exams acquired with outdated CT technology. Over a year after the policy was first announced, manufacturers and providers are running out of time to get everything in order.

Medical IT and technology company Sectra has announced its acquisition of it-mark, a Danish company specializing in cloud services to the business and healthcare sectors.

When seeking FDA approval of medical devices, manufacturers should keep in mind how and where their data is collected, according to a new draft guidance the agency released last week.

Perception: The dose wars and the slice wars are so five years ago, and imaging equipment isn’t where the action is anymore, anyway. Everyone is extending life cycles until scanners are about driven into the ground. You want action in radiology? Look to big data, analytics, informatics and other “wonders-of-computing” spheres. 

Football injuries to NFL players have given the game a black eye. But now some good is coming of the risk, and it has much to do with a promising use of CT imaging.