All the leadership training in the world won’t make a lick of difference if good governance structures are not in place to manage cultures and implement up-to-date processes within radiology practices and departments.

What attributes, aims and aspirations characterize your personal brand? Where does your brand mesh with, and diverge from, the brands and missions of your practice and your health-provider system? And are you building your personal brand intentionally—or passively letting outside forces shape it for you?

With jobs on his mind and the “future of healthcare” in his heart, a state governor has gone out of his way to both support and promote the budding therapeutic technology of focused ultrasound. 

Consumer media outlets have paid plenty of attention to the recent study showing that, despite the popularity of Choosing Wisely efforts, low-value health services—not least several perennially overutilized imaging exams—are still ringing up more than $30 million a year in probably needless spending. 

When a new crop of diagnosis codes takes root on Oct. 1, radiologists will find all sorts of new wrinkles to keep up with—or at least be aware of. These include, for example, seven new codes for gastrointestinal stromal tumors alone.

A nonprofit news site based in Minnesota has taken a look at the state of the Sunshine Act—which mandated transparency in healthcare providers’ financial interests—and called out physician-owned imaging centers as an example of entities benefiting by “serious gaps” in the 2010 law.

Incidental and secondary findings are on the rise, thanks largely to advances in diagnostic technologies and adoptions of value-based practice incentives. As such findings increasingly confound patients as well as clinicians—not to mention medical ethicists and malpractice courts—radiology would do well to follow discussions going on in the field of genetic testing. 

While complications from optical colonoscopy occur in less than 1 in 100 cases, the effects can be devastating: bleeding, infection, even death. In the rare case that a serious complication occurs, radiology administrators can ensure rapid diagnosis by prioritizing CT over abdominal radiography, according to a study published in JACR.