As another congressional session progresses, lobbyists representing radiology organizations on Capitol Hill have their sights set on preventing further cuts to imaging services under Medicare, especially as debate intensifies over fixing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.

Programs like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, do invaluable work in bringing advanced medical care to developing and unstable nations. Often overlooked, however, is the role that radiology plays. As the diagnostic specialty, radiology can be critical in clinical scenarios where imaging plays an essential role,

Radiology is at a crossroads, and the future of the profession will be determined by the decisions that radiologists make today, according to John Patti, MD, and Pat Basu, MD. In “Critical Issues Facing the Profession of Radiology: An ACR® Leadership Perspective,” which Patti copresented on November 28, 2011 at the annual meeting of the RSNA, he

When Riverside Radiology and Interventional Associates (Columbus, Ohio), one of the largest radiology practices in the United States, went to PACS vendor FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA (Stamford, Connecticut) to make some custom changes to its Synapse platform, Fuji representatives were all ears.

When one of two largest hospital groups in the Austin, Texas, area decided to implement PACS, CIO R. Todd Thomas of the Austin Radiological Association (ARA) had some choices to make for his night coverage. Although ARA had mostly blanketed the area with Synapse PACS (FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA, Stamford Connecticut), to which many of its

Streamlining interaction between imaging departments and referring clinicians not only saves time, lives, and duplicate studies, but can also improve productivity. One of the most powerful new approaches to eliminating the physical and networking barriers to image sharing is the use of cloud computing.

As someone who has found himself—more than once—in a mad dash to catch the day’s last FedEx® pickup so that an out-of-town physician could have a patient’s images stat, Tom Hasley sees the wisdom of a cloud-based solution to image delivery. Hasley is systems support manager, ambulatory services, for Rex Healthcare (Raleigh, North Carolina), and he

Patients are at the center of control in an ongoing effort by the RSNA to standardize the way that medical images are shared on the Internet. In August 2011, The RSNA Image Share Network started enrolling its first patients to have images and reports stored electronically, through an online network accessible anywhere in the world.