Retail sales enticements like quick price quotes and money-back guarantees are coming to a hospital near you if they’re not already there—and imaging is a likely pitch point, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC).

Many have noted that radiology has been in something of a funk ever since PACS started computerizing the field en masse, but few have described the situation with more dramatic impact than Robert Wachter, MD.

The value-based model of healthcare delivery known as the perioperative surgical home (PSH), which taps anesthesiologists to captain inpatient care teams—and not just in the OR—gets some good press in a major business outlet. 

For over 40 consecutive quarters—from the mid-2000s to 2016—Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas has been ranked as the #1 Computed Radiography (CR) manufacturer for customer satisfaction by MD Buyline, an independent organization that provides hospitals and health systems with evidence-based research and consulting services to advise hospitals on critical purchasing decisions.

The BRAIN initiative launched by the Obama administration in 2013—all caps because it’s an acronym for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies—just received an infusion of $70 million in fresh funding for new projects, the NIH announced Oct. 13.

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.”