Lianna “Lili” Ovsepian, manager and owner of Manor Medical Imaging in Glendale, Calif., has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for overseeing a $20 million scheme to fraudulently prescribe antipsychotic medication and then sell those drugs back to pharmacies through the black market.

Interest in neuroradiology fellowships has plateaued and a little more than one-fifth of positions has been unfilled for the past three years, according to results published online August 22 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

For adults over 75, the added costs and potential harms for colonoscopy screening beyond the recommended interval of 10 years outweigh the benefits, according to a study published in the August issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

Much has been made in recent years about combatting the commoditization of radiology by increasing the specialty’s value to the care continuum and the healthcare system as a whole rather than just offering interpretations from a reading room. Two of this week’s top stories focused on institutions that took steps to improve efficiency on their own, though one of the groups is asking for more help from vendors.

Joel J. Nobel, MD, founder and president emeritus of the ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit dedicated to research that improves patient care, has passed away at the age of 79, according to the institute.

When staff at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta realized patients who were coming in for ultrasound-guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) were waiting two or three hours for the procedure after check-in, they took action and redesigned workflows.

The rallying cry in radiology in recent years has been “value over volume,” and the message of boosting value in radiology was on display again this week at the annual meeting of AHRA in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Administrators should not lose control of a radiology facility design project by delegating it to others who either don’t have the expertise or don’t have the provider’s interest in mind, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of AHRA.