Palmetto Health of South Carolina has installed Agfa HealthCares latest version of the Impax PACS.

The Board of Directors of the American College of Radiologys (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) has established the RLI Common Body of Knowledge, which will serve as the foundation for radiologys first professional development and leadership academy.

Central Health is currently in the process of investigating a selected group of diagnostic imaging reports read at James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre in Gander, Newfoundland. The current imaging quality review comes on the heels of a six-month investigation of 14,000 imaging studies originally interpreted by four radiologists in British Columbia.

While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in response to American College of Radiology (ACR) data, and a furious reaction from the imaging community, revised the multiple procedure payment reduction for interpretation of imaging from 50 percent to 25 percent, the 25 percent cut is still "unfounded and potentially dangerous," the ACR maintained in a Nov. 3 statement. The unanticipated final rule expansion of this reduction to include multiple providers within the same group practice violates the spirit of the rulemaking process and indicates that CMS fundamentally misunderstands the practice of medicine, according to the ACR.

As Congress deficit super committee approaches the Nov. 23 deadline to submit its plan to tackle the debt, debates over revenue increases and spending cuts are raging in Washington. Unless tax increases account for a large portion of the deficit reduction plan, Congress will be forced to slash Medicaid and Medicare, according to an editorial published in the Nov. 3 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

The number of healthcare providers replacing their revenue cycle management system has risen drastically according to new research from healthcare research firm KLAS. Over the next five years, nearly half of the providers KLAS interviewed for the study told KLAS they plan to replace their RCM, with 87 percent of those planning to do so in the next three years.

MRI Associates has been awarded $52 million in damages from Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center for violating a partnership agreement and illegally competing for services, according to an Associated Press report.

As endovascular repair techniques are poised to replace open surgical repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), a study published in the November issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery showed that using spinal and local anesthesia rather than general anesthetics may shrink post-op length of stay and limit post-operative complications, resulting in lower operative costs.