Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Researchers Estimate Overdiagnosis Rate for CT Lung Cancer Screening

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that 18.4% of the lung cancers detected with low-dose CT in the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial may have been indolent

Hologic Replaces CEO and Settles With Ichan

Jack W. Cumming, 68, who had been a part of the top management team of Hologic Inc, Bedford, Mass., for over a decade will be replaced as president and CEO by Stryker veteran Stephen MacMillan.

RSNA Trendwatch: Take a Long View of MU

In a Thursday morning open-mike/town hall session on the federal meaningful use program, Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD, offered a reality check for those incentive-happy practices that have successfully attested to Stage 1

RSNA Trendwatch: Consumer Technology Moving to Health Care

Gaming technologies applied to high speed graphics processing is just one example of how consumer technologies are now used to improve the look and function of advanced imaging systems

RSNA Trendwatch: Multi-Enterprise Imaging

This year's RSNA left no room for doubt: If you're just talking about image management within the radiology department, you might as well not be talking at all

RSNA Trendwatch: Social Media Gaining Ground

Elliot Fishman, MD, of Johns Hopkins, was just one of many at RSNA 2013 urging radiology as a profession to start acknowledging the power of social media — as well as the risks of abstaining from it

RANT Named Biggest Practice by FTE Radiologists

Radiology Associates of North Texas, based in Forth Worth, Tex, held onto the top spot in the annual Radiology Business Journal ranking of largest radiology practices by full-time equivalent (FTE) radiologists

Former Exeter Hospital Radiologic Tech Sentenced to 39 Years

David Kwiatkowski, a fentanyl-addicted radiology technician who had worked at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, had already pleaded guilty to infecting at least 46 patients with hepatitis C in exchange for limiting his sentence to no more than 40 years