The answer, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek article, is a resounding yes. Writer Charles Kenny argues that the path to improved health lies in keeping patients out of doctors’ offices and bolsters his assertion with some fairly compelling insights.

On March 22, 2013, El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) was notified that x-rays ECRMC had provided to a trusted vendor for digitization and destruction were missing from a storage warehouse and may not have been properly destroyed.

As healthcare moves from a volume to a value proposition, building better, more efficient patient care is increasingly important. Radiologists will learn skills to help navigate this transition, become better leaders, and thrive under new delivery and payment systems, at the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) RLI Annual Event, to be held July 25–28, 2013, at the Kellogg School of Management on Northwestern University’s Evanston, IL, campus.

Creation of a critical findings list can help ensure adherence to communication standards, and one study found nearly 95 percent of cases at an institution with such a list were appropriately classified, with referring clinicians called when appropriate, according to results published in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Radiation dose reporting regulation recently enacted in California, while well-intentioned, has the potential to subject radiologists to new and unvalidated standards, restrict necessary adjustments to imaging protocols and mislead patients, according to an article published online May 10 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) announced the winners of its Design Challenge for the Patient Portal for New Yorkers, awarding Mana Health first place, iHealthNY second and MyHealthProfile third.

The outlook for the U.S. interventional x-ray equipment market seems to be reverting back to positive levels as of the end of 2012, following three years of contraction in the interventional radiology (IR) and interventional cardiology (IC) segments, according to a report from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

The rise in healthcare expenditures, particularly in the case of Medicare spending, since 1990 is primarily due to rising treatment prevalence, representing a shift from pre-1990 growth that was spurred by growing incomes, spreading insurance coverage and technological change, according to a study published in the May issue of Health Affairs.