New Orleans-based Cook Medical took the opportunity of the SIR meeting to introduce its new fully-retractable .035 inch embolization coil for peripheral arterial and venous embolization

The patent covers a system for monitoring the portions of a medical image displayed at full resolution and reducing the chance of a missing an abnormality in the image due to the viewer examining a portion of the image at a different resolution or other display parameter.

Eli Lilly, the maker of the first FDA-approved Alzheimer's imaging agent, Amyvid, is acquiring two imaging agents developed by Siemens that make brain deposits of tau visible. Amyvid targets amyloid plaques

The technique pairs laser optics with ultrasound imaging to create multispectral photoacoustic imaging that reliably sorted malignant prostate tissue samples from benign samples

The studies will help fulfill the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute's mission of creating a fuller evidence-based picture of the role of radiology in evolving health care delivery and payment models

A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association is likely to fuel the movement towards value-based purchasing in health care. In a study of 34,000 surgeries performed at Dallas-based hospital network Texas Health, researchers found that surgeries with complications generate twice the revenue of surgeries without complications, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

The Republican senators say that so far the government has gotten a poor return on the billions it has invested in electronic health record (EHR) “meaningful use” incentives

Orthopedic practices are no strangers to pursuing optimum patient satisfaction with imaging as part of a growth strategy; in fact, their growth is often dependent on it. Dale Ingram, CEO of the Cardinal Orthopaedic Institute (COI), Columbus, Ohio, says, “Of our MRI patients, 98% came from within our practice—we get very few patients from outside referrals. Imaging plays a big role in whether patients are satisfied with our service. They don’t have to go somewhere else and re-register, and it also helps with their continuity of care—our radiologists are here in the building and can talk to our physicians at any time. Every aspect of the process is easier for patients.”