Radiologists fare well overall in online physician reviews posted by patients at RateMDs.com, although the reviews betray evidence of the “halo effect”—the doc can either do no wrong or gets almost nothing right—according to a study running in the May edition of the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

If you’re a radiologist, you’re a leader. Even if nobody reports to you, you influence your peers, your healthcare colleagues and even those you report up to—and everyone else with whom you cross paths in your line of work. Given this actuality, you would do well to adopt as your own the business-management principle popularly known as “360-degree leadership.” 

Siemens CFO Ralf Thomas expressed the company's continued interest in splitting off Siemens Healthineers, its healthcare division. He said Siemens is exploring three potential paths: a spinoff, an initial public offering or a reverse merger with a public company.

The winds of change are blowing across the field of radiology at arguably their highest sustained speeds ever. Disruption is everywhere, from technological advances like AI to regulatory mandates like MACRA—and from comprehensive profession-improvement campaigns like Imaging 3.0 to moving targets like whatever shakes out of healthcare reform (or doesn’t). What’s a rad to do? 

Last week MITA, the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance, applauded a bipartisan bill introduced in the House to ensure accountable servicing of medical devices no matter who’s doing the servicing. This week the group is on the hill—make that in The Hill—with an op-ed urging quick passage. 

“The more monitors, the better” might be the order of the day if younger radiologists had their druthers on workstation design, according to a study published online April 28 in the Journal of Digital Imaging.

It’s not news that Medicare has saved itself a ton of money on spending for medical imaging since the enactment of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. But now there are numbers to quantify the hurting the cuts have laid on radiologists and cardiologists—who’ve taken it on the chin even more.

Congressmen Ryan Costello, R-Pennsylvania, and Scott Peters, D-California, were commended by the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) for introducing bipartisan legislation to ensure consistency in regulation for the proper servicing of medical devices.