Healthcare-economics innovators looking for a model after which to fashion an episodic bundled-payment package for cancer care would do well to consider radiologist-led breast cancer screening.

Become an expert. Build a reputation among your peers. Hire and train the best people. Tips from a businessperson who made it big? Not exactly. It’s advice from an interventional radiologist who daily deals with things like blood clots, varicose veins and other blood circulation abnormalities. 

When the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, or Omnibus Bill, was passed late last year, it included text that requires imaging providers to start using DR.

There’s a common thread connecting Tronc—the nascent news-industry giant formerly known as Tribune Publishing—and Merge Healthcare, IBM’s medical imaging company.

Hospitals cannot function without physicians, but physicians can function without hospitals. Those are plain facts—the latter is demonstrated daily in war-torn parts of the world—and the observation ought to give pause to those looking to quicken the rise of the hospitalist specialty in U.S. healthcare.

The 2016 Olympics have inadvertently shone a bright light on the chasm between healthcare in Rio de Janeiro for the haves who will come and go—the athletes, the entourages, the tourists—and healthcare for the poor residents who will remain.

NASHUA, N.H., July 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iCAD, Inc. (Nasdaq:ICAD), an industry-leading provider of advanced image analysis, workflow solutions and radiation therapy for the early identification and treatment of cancer, today reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016.

The online job search site Health eCareers is out with its second annual salary survey, and the Dallas Morning News has reviewed the numbers to figure out what they mean for healthcare workers in the Lone Star State.