When it comes to adapting to U.S. healthcare’s transition from volume- to value-based reimbursement, radiology is “leading the charge for non-patient-facing providers in a world that’s geared almost entirely around the direct patient-facing experience.”

The Association for Radiologic and Imaging Nursing (ARIN) is among the organizations pushing for capnography monitoring of inpatients receiving opioids. 

A Florida primary-care physician who gave up the red tape of reimbursement for the hands-on of monthly retainer payments directly from patients—and for a single, discounted contract with a radiology practice—has gotten her story told in the local newspaper.

By the time 2016 is in the books, RSNA’s Research & Education Foundation will have supported 101 young researchers in 54 academic medical institutions to the tune of $4 million in grants. 

An MRI suite in China may have become the scene of a near-tragedy. According to numerous reports, the machine’s magnetic field “sucked up” a patient’s wheelchair like a vacuum cleaner.

Last Thursday, CMS proposed changes in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). The American College of Radiology quickly said it would be reviewing the details in the coming weeks and—in advance of that activity as well as of the September 6 comment deadline—noted its overall approval of the proposed rule as released. 

Four radiologists have quit their jobs at a hospital in the land of the kiwis, and a news item on the development is worth a quick read—albeit probably more so while taking a coffee break than during work hours. 

A radiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is almost as much a product developer and entrepreneur as he is a physician. For that reason he’s drawn the attention of the business and technology publisher Xconomy.