A pair of former radiology officials submitted plea deals in response to fraud charges in connection to a San Antonio military medical center.

The recent cold snap is being blamed for a burst sprinkler pipe that caused water to leak into multiple departments, including radiology, at John Dempsey Hospital, part of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Conn., according to an Associated Press report.

One of the tenets of the Affordable Care Act is that once people receive healthcare coverage that allows them to access traditional primary care services, they will stop relying on expensive emergency department visits for care that could be delivered in another setting. Or will they?

Regardless of an available medical student pipeline, females and minorities in medicine remain underrepresented as diagnostic radiology residents in comparison with the U.S. population, according to a study published in the January 2014 issue of Radiology.

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) rewards incremental rather than sustained health care savings, a shortcoming that needs to be addressed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), according to an article published online Dec. 20 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Value may have been the word of the year in radiology and across healthcare in general. At nearly every professional conference, speakers seemed laser-focused on the concept of shifting healthcare in the U.S. from a volume-based, fee-for-service model to a system that emphasizes value and patient-centered care.

Real-time location systems (RTLSs) can be successfully installed in healthcare settings and can capture work flow behavior such as face, wait, and flow times, according to a study published online Nov. 25 by the American Journal of Managed Care. 

A doctor from Morris County, New Jersey has pleaded guilty to taking cash kickbacks from an Orange diagnostic testing facility in exchange for making referrals to the lab, reported The Star-Ledger on Dec. 18.