Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) and Sony Corporation (“Sony”) today announced that the two parties recently received all necessary regulatory approvals and now expect to establish the medical business venture company (the “medical business venture”) on April 16, 2013 in accordance with the business alliance agreement executed on September 28, 2012.

Salt Lake City- April 9, 2013– AMIRSYS® previews its new RADPrimer® Learning Portal for Radiology Residents with the release of Version 3.0.  This new release previews the transformation from RADPrimer 2.0, a case-based learning tool focused on making the right diagnosis to RADPrimer 3.0, a comprehensive radiology learning system with topic-driven lessons containing learning objectives, reading assignments, self-study assessment and pre- and post-learning quizzes. RADPrimer 3.0 now includes Physics & Safety assessments in addition to the 11 traditional radiology disciplines.

World class healthcare. It’s everyone’s vision and the ultimate goal. Getting there will be hard work. Gregory Goldstein, MD, president of MetisMD, detailed three strategies to help primary care providers tap into the wealth of expertise lurking behind the reading room door in in HuffPost Healthy Living April 3. They are: ask questions of radiologists, communicate with imagers before the exam and leverage technology for collaborative image viewing. Though the advice targets clinicians, the savviest radiologists are taking steps to assist clinicians with these strategies.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Sen. Stan Bingham and Sen. Wesley Meredith have introduced a bill in the North Carolina legislature that will require individuals to secure a license before performing medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures.

As the radiology job market tightens, established radiologists can choose to either protect their own incomes, or support the specialty as a whole by filling positions with young graduates and expanding the duties of a radiologist in general beyond interpretation, according to an article published in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The stereotype of a medical spouse languishing while his or her partner toils away at the office may be exaggerated, according to results of a national survey published in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. However, younger physicians’ interest in lifestyle specialties and work-life balance coupled with decreasing worker hours among older physicians may have serious workforce consequences.

True confessions: March Madness has passed me by this year. After all, my alma mater, UConn, is out; and I’m a fair weather fan at best. Yet, like millions of viewers across the country I was glued to the screen March 31 as University of Louisville player Kevin Ware went down during the game and was carried out on a back board.

It’s time for radiology to collectively exit the volume bandwagon and get on board with value-based imaging, according to a 10th anniversary musing published online March 25 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.