Radiology Associates of Tarrant County, Southwest Imaging and Interventional Specialists and Grapevine Radiology Associates have  agreed to merge their respective radiology practices.

In search of minimum downtime and extensive customer service, providers rank single-plate CR higher than multi-plate, while tending to prefer DR to CR, according to a report released by the Orem, Utah healthcare market research and consulting firm KLAS.

GE Healthcare has received 510(k) approval for its specialty Optima MR430s scanner, an MR system that targets extremities while patients recline in an adjacent chair.

Researchers from the University of Sussex in the U.K. have launched a software application that synthesizes diagnostic image information to produce a risk stratification report for predicting treatment responses and prognosis in cancer patients.

One of the most misunderstood, murky and maligned healthcare terms is meaningful use. The concept is particularly vexing for radiology departments as medical imaging represents the apex of meaningful deployment of IT, yet the specialty was overlooked in preliminary meaningful use (MU) discussions.

We've seen a winter marked by snowpocalypse and political cacophony that plummeted to new lows. The slightest wisp of thaw seemed to be the air in the wake of the Tucson tragedy, but just as quickly the GOP pulled the rug out with H.R. 2, designed to repeal the job killing healthcare law.

For more than a decade, patients have been assuming greater control over their healthcare, facilitated almost exclusively by the internet. Clinicians and administrators alike are well-aware of the benefits and dangers of this trendinformed patients can make better decisions regarding their health; misinformed patients, in addition to making poor decisions, may mimic sophomoric med students with compulsive and inaccurate self-diagnoses.

Utahs House of Representatives has approved legislation that would allow radiologist assistants (RAs) to perform radiologic procedures under radiologist supervision, setting it up to become the 30th state to recognize RAs, pending the bills approval by the state senate and Gov. Gary R. Herbert.