In February 2013, the ACR® Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) released a brief¹ proposing a classification system for repeat medical-imaging studies. Richard Duszak, MD, CEO of HPI, says, “We wanted to propose a way to study the incidence, utilization, and appropriateness of repeat imaging for research and policy purposes. While that was our primary audience, and they would be researching this retrospectively, there is a lot of opportunity to do this in a prospective, real-time fashion for quality-improvement purposes.”

Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 370-bed acute-care hospital in Carmichael, California, that is part of the not-for-profit Dignity Health System. It has experienced significant growth since it opened its doors in 1967—particularly following the 2009 introduction of a new patient tower that added 110 beds.

Since opening on February 17, 1910, the 375-bed Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC), in Aurora has tried to be a leader in providing the best health-care outcomes for children.

Many radiology administrators remember purchasing their first or second PACS: It was probably no small financial commitment, and justifying the expense might have been a painful process.

When Duke University Health System (DUHS) in Durham, North Carolina, goes live with its full-blown Epic electronic health record (EHR) implementation in June 2013

I am pleased to announce a new addition to our comprehensive news and information portal in the form of a series of video commentaries. Within these occasional commentaries, I will take the opportunity to discuss the implications for medical imaging leaders of the various trends and issues facing our profession. This first video is a brief

Advanced visualization technology in imaging continues to garner acceptance within the radiology arena, yielding improvements in practice patterns and opportunities for enhanced cooperation with clinicians. Sanjay Prabhu, MBBS, FRCR, is a staff radiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts and director of Boston Children’s Advanced

In 2007, Metro Imaging, a radiology group with five outpatient imaging centers in St Louis, Missouri, launched a program in which patients could opt to receive their preliminary results following their exams, in as few as five to 10 minutes. Harley Hammerman, MD, CEO of Metro Imaging, says, “When patients come in, they are given cards with their