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.

Hologic Receives FDA Approval for New Breast Tomosynthesis Software

Hologic's new C-View 2D imaging software got the green light from the FDA, a development that will lead to less scanning time and lower radiation for patients, the company says

ACR Teleradiology Task Force Proposes Guidelines

The 1-year-old ACR Teleradiology Task Force has published its first best-practice guidelines for teleradiology in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR)

GE Healthcare Breaks Ground on S.C. Helium Liquefaction Facility

The $17 million helium liquefaction facility in Florence, S.C., will be an extension of GE’s current MR production plant there. The plant uses roughly 5.5 million liters of helium a year in the manufacture of MR devices, the company said

ACR Seeks to Raise $5 Million for Leadership Institute

The ACR knows that keeping radiology central to the delivery of high quality health care will not happen without strong leadership, and it wants to put some serious money behind its effort to grow the next generation of radiology leaders

ARRT Names Two New Board Trustees

The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) has appointed Lisa Bartenhagen, M.S., R.T., and Barbara J. Smith, M.S., R.T., FASRT, FAEIRS, to four-year terms on its Board of Trustees, beginning August 1, 2013

KLAS Reports Look at Supporting Tests for Mammography

With growing patient and referral source interest in breast cancer screening options beyond traditional mammography, the women’s imaging field is heating up says research firm KLAS.

Maryland Becomes 7th State With a Breast Density Notification Law

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has signed SB 334, the “Mammograms – Dense Breast Tissue – Notification” into law making his state the seventh state requiring mammography providers to give patients information about breast density

Two Studies Find Cause for Optimism in Health Care Cost Growth

Whether the slowdown in health care spending is just a silver lining to the overall slowdown in the economy or if it is due to structural changes in how health care is delivered is no small matter