GE Healthcare named Tom McGuinness its new president and CEO of GE Healthcare's Imaging business on June 11, according to an internal report from GE Healthcare.

When one institution gave radiologists a programmable 13-button mouse over a two-day period, many preferred the non-conventional device over the traditional three-button variety, according to a study published in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

In a letter to the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF), the American College of Radiology (ACR), the Lung Cancer Alliance and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons urged for objectivity in the upcoming review of the USPSTF’s lung cancer screening recommendations.

Current Medicare performance metrics favor radiologists in large practices and those in subspecialties, which may hurt general radiologists and impact patient care.

The study in the latest edition of Research Policy, looking at the 2.3 percent excise tax imposed on medical devices in 2013, found it significantly reduced research and development investment, sales revenue, gross margins and earnings since ACA implementation in 2013.

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, and internist at Bellevue Hospital and the New York University School of Medicine, along with her colleagues, believe a false-positive or abnormal result in an imaging test doesn’t necessarily mean patients need to worry or follow-up with their physician.

A police investigation is ongoing after officials found a computer and external hard drive used to store retinal images were stolen from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah.

The FDA has proposed reclassifying medical image analyzers used in mammography for breast cancer, ultrasound for breast lesions, x-ray for lung nodules and x-ray for dental caries as class II medical devices instead of class III.