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Roxana Mehran, MD, elected ACC President

A prominent figure in the fields of interventional cardiology and women’s health is now leading the American College of Cardiology.

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“These increases likely indicate that the radiology workforce has reached maximum capacity," Neiman Health Policy Institute experts write in JACR. 

Man vs. Machine artificial intelligence AI

Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, recently spoke during a panel discussion held by Crain’s New York Business. 

Department of Justice DOJ

Authorities claim NewYork-Presbyterian wielded plan restrictions to stop one insurer from steering beneficiaries to other imaging options. 

St. Anthony's Hospital BayCare

About $10 million of the total will cover construction, with BayCare adding two new bi-plane suites at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Happy doctor physician

Three-fifths of 14,000 physicians surveyed, 60%, enjoy a strong sense of belonging within their organization. Better yet, four-fifths, 80%, feel their teammates have their back.

REVENUE MONEY INCREASE DOLLAR GRAPH FINANCE

These charges account for a significant portion of IR expenditures, but many providers indicate they have never had formal training in charge awareness.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital civil rights advocacy group, said it filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking more information about the “WISeR” pilot program, which effectively adds a prior-authorization process to traditional Medicare in six states. To date, it’s received no response. 

Abbott has secured U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its CardioMEMS HERO device, a next-generation pulmonary artery (PA) pressure reader for heart failure patients.

The updated reader is 60% smaller and offers built-in WiFi connectivity. It works with an implantable sensor to monitor a patient's PA pressure. 

Alex Towbin, MD, FAAP, FACR, FSIIM, Society for Imaging Informatics (SIIM) chair-elect, associate chief medical information officer, Department of Radiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and Sylvia Devlin MS, RT, CIIP, FSIIM, SIIM treasurer and director of customer success imaging informatics, Radiology Partners, explain the big IT trends they saw across the vendors at RSNA 2025.

In this video interview, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine leaders discuss some of the biggest imaging IT trends emerging in 2026. 

When patients on GLP-1 therapy also make healthy lifestyle choices—getting enough sleep and exercising, for example—the benefits are significantly greater. 

STS plans on using new research out of Mayo Clinic to help with the development of a surgical risk calculator for adults with this challenging condition.

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A prominent figure in the fields of interventional cardiology and women’s health is now leading the American College of Cardiology.