A state senator in Colorado has taken to the online pages of a local news outlet to tell voters what she’s planning to focus on for the 2017 legislative session. It turns out healthcare is on her mind and medical imaging is in her sights. 

If the curricula effectively incorporate hands-on experience with quality instruction and team integration, radiology subinternships can be an effective means of prompting medical students to choose radiology for their final-year clinical elective.  

Utilization reviewers seeking to ascertain whether MRI was inappropriately ordered for low-back pain might assume that direct review of patients’ charts would tilt toward patient empathy while aloof analysis of claims data would reflect a higher bar to clear. They would be wrong.

Harvard Medical School has introduced a publicly accessible, fully digital “library of evidence” to guide clinicians in their imaging decisions.

With jobs on his mind and the “future of healthcare” in his heart, a state governor has gone out of his way to both support and promote the budding therapeutic technology of focused ultrasound. 

Consumer media outlets have paid plenty of attention to the recent study showing that, despite the popularity of Choosing Wisely efforts, low-value health services—not least several perennially overutilized imaging exams—are still ringing up more than $30 million a year in probably needless spending. 

A nonprofit news site based in Minnesota has taken a look at the state of the Sunshine Act—which mandated transparency in healthcare providers’ financial interests—and called out physician-owned imaging centers as an example of entities benefiting by “serious gaps” in the 2010 law.

There’s a common thread connecting Tronc—the nascent news-industry giant formerly known as Tribune Publishing—and Merge Healthcare, IBM’s medical imaging company.