Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital (MJMH) of Kosciusko, Miss., has selected NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a developer of healthcare information systems tools, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, as components of its transition to an automated health IT platform.

Breast imagers may have breathed a collective sigh of relief with the publication of three-decade data from the Swedish Two-County Trial in Radiology in July. Tabar et al demonstrated a long-term and sustained mortality benefit associated with screening mammography.

Tried-and-true imaging models based on volume no longer suffice. Proactive organizations have leveraged advanced CT to employ a value-based model to improve patient care and save resources.

In a study surveying ICD-9-CM subcategories, debridement was found to be the subcategory that caused the most confusion among coders, based on a report published in the summer issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management.

Healthcare has become as much a matter of politics as medicine in the U.S., leading many physicians to fear that determinations about the fate of their specialties may lie entirely outside of their control.

As healthcare reform and cuts to Medicare have forced many private practices to close their doors, a brief issued Aug. 18 by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) questioned whether the rise in hospital employment of physicians is actually as beneficial as some think in terms of quality and cost savings.

Radiology consistently ranks as a middle to low prestige medical specialty, which could deter some medical students from selecting the specialty, according to a commentary published in the August issue of Radiology. With the prestige issue likely exacerbating other challenges faced by the profession, the authors outlined the reasons behind radiologys relative lack of prestige and solutions for combatting it.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has announced the Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI), a professional development and leadership academy,,will offer its first courses in 2012.