Geographic adjustments to Medicare payments are intended to accurately and equitably cover regional variations in wages, rents and other costs incurred by hospitals and individual healthcare practitioners. However, a recent report from the Institute of Medicine found that 37 percent of hospitals (1,313) have been granted exceptions to how their adjustments are calculated.

WASHINGTON, D.C.The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) kicked off its annual meeting with a clear message on June 2: Radiology needs reform, and informatics can help.

Nemours Childrens Hospital (NCH), in Orlando, Fla., has partnered with Orchestrate Healthcare on an enterprise-wide implementation of Epic EMR.

The explosion of social media has made social networking a popular and often beneficial platform for communication and marketing by patients and physicians; but healthcare providers may expose themselves to serious legal risks by engaging in social networking, the extent of which are not yet known, according to a communication in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

eRAD, a division of RadNet, has installed its teleradiology software at White Mountain Radiology.

With the explosion of advanced image processing in the last 10 years, radiologists have increasingly resembled Renaissance sculptors, stripping images of noise to render cleaner images and clearer diagnoses.But should 3D reconstruction be the role of the radiologist, or is such a responsibility for a physician outdated and inefficient, asked the authors of an article in the June issue of the Journal of Digital Imaging.

Sectra has completed its RIS installation at Advanced Medical Imaging (AMI).

Specialists practicing in multispecialty practices receive significantly higher first-year compensation compared with specialists practicing in single-specialty practices--differing by more than $18,000, according to this years Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Physician Placement starting salary survey.