Eliot B. Siegel, MD, has joined RadSite, a certification and accreditation agency for imaging quality, as its chief quality officer (CQO).

The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition has submitted a letter to Congress signed by 22 patient advocacy organizations urging them to protect advanced medical imaging and radiation therapy services against further reimbursement cuts and radiology benefit manager and prior authorization proposals.

Employed physicians whose compensation was partly incentive-based improved quality and efficiency faster than non-employed physicians in the same network, according to an analysis of the Geisinger Health Systems' physician compensation structure that appeared in the September issue of Health Affairs.

Obesity rates, and associated diseases and healthcare costs, are projected to rise in every U.S. state over the next 20 years, according to a report by Trust for Americas Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Canadian CT Head Rule provides a sensitive, specific and cost-effective clinical prediction rule, according to a systemic review published in the September issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.

The Image Gently campaign, conducted by the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, has developed an initiative called Back to Basics, aimed at helping providers strengthen radiation protection when performing x-ray exams on children.

Many U.S. mammographers believe their performance is better than it actually is and at least as good as their colleagues, according to survey results published in the September issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.

BOSTONThe use of Facebook by hospitals has been increasing at a steady pace, but specific factors impact utilization, according to research conducted by Ricky Leung, PhD, assistant professor of health management and informatics at University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, and presented during the Medicine 2.0 Congress.