New imaging centers are one of several categories of healthcare facility driving a construction boomlet. Health Facilities Management reported the development last winter. The trade outlet Construction Dive takes a fresh look at it now.

The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has awarded U.S. Rep. Bill Flores of Texas its 2016 Innovation Award for, among other things, his role in securing a two-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act’s medical device tax. And a local TV station has brought the development to its community.

Fresh off completing his four-game suspension over the “Deflategate” brouhaha, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is out with a new endorsement. And what’s he helping to sell? Healthcare services for Shields Healthcare—the “official MRI provider of the Patriots.” 

Earlier this week the NBC affiliate in Green Bay chose to tell its viewers about what it is that radiologists do, airing a segment with a local rad who gives a two-minute rundown.

Due to a looming staffing shortage, radiology services in Scotland are slouching toward a preventable crisis, according to the health correspondent at The Scotsman.

Healthcare-economics experts in the Great Lakes State are preparing to tuck into a health-system makeover project that, they hope, will eventually yield tight care coordination—and thus substantial resource savings—on a grand scale. 

In one fell swoop, a medical school in upstate New York has beefed up its radiology faculty by 35 radiologists. In the process, it’s done nothing less than relaunch a long dormant residency program. 

In the Journal of the American College of Radiology, author Richard E. Heller III, MD, MBA, recently concluded an article by saying radiology needs a “new and gradable standard” for written radiology reports. Is this a good idea? A bad one?