The continuity of business is vital in any setting but even more so in hospitals when patient encounters and care delivery may be interrupted. Considering the importance of the work that is carried out in healthcare facilities, developing continuity of business plans at all points of patient care is completely essential.

Many radiology groups have already committed to meaningful use (MU) of health IT to reap the financial benefits of utilizing electronic health records, but a high percentage remain on the sidelines. Some of the reluctance could be attributed to the belief that the cost will outweigh the benefit, but that disregards the fact that referring physicians who have attested will need to connect with specialty providers for phase 2 in order to continue complying with the program.

Mammographers and other readers of radiography who require a high-resolution display have an interesting new choice to check out: Barco announced it will begin selling a 33-inch, grayscale monitor with its highest resolution yet (12 megapixels) that also can display color images with great clarity.

When Atlanta-based The Radiology Group was founded in 2006, it looked like a traditional private radiology practice, albeit a family affair. Anand Lalaji, MD, a musculoskeletal radiologist, his wife Tejal Lalaji, MD (a neuroradiologist and breast imager) and his father-in-law Mahendra Patel, MD, (a body imager) grew the practice over the subsequent three years into a thriving enterprise with multiple hospital and imaging center clients in Northeast Georgia. 

Serving the community of upstate New York’s Capital Region, Adirondack Radiology Associates (ARA) recently expanded patients’ access to state-of-the-art, high-field open bore MR imaging technology, replacing two systems, an older low-field open system and a closed 1.5T system, with the Hitachi Oasis high-field open MR at their Saratoga Imaging Center. Since the installation, ARA has experienced an increase in procedure volumes and patient satisfaction as well a reduction in costs. 

Winning a fresh $1.27 million to continue advancing its Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA), the Radiological Society of North America plans to develop a quantitative-imaging data warehouse that, eventually, will be free and open to the public. 

MILFORD, CT (October 7, 2014) – Kubtec, the foremost developer of digital specimen radiography systems, marks the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month with the announcement of U.S. FDA approval of MOZART® with TomoSpec®, the first and only breast specimen radiography system with tomosynthesis technology. In providing the most comprehensive analysis of excised breast tissue in a specimen radiography system, MOZART can help reduce re-excision and patient call back rates. 

Patient-centered care isn’t achievable without patient-centered imaging. Upon this obvious yet easily overlooked principle, the American Heart Association is urging heart doctors across various subspecialties to talk to patients about radiation risks before imaging their chests.