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.

Congress Passes American Medical Isotope Production Act

Congress passes American Medical Isotope Production Act to secure domestic supply of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), an isotope used in over 16 million procedures annually

Merck and GE Healthcare Collaborate on Alzheimer's Disease Research

GE Healthcare will supply [18F]Flutemetamol to Merck to support clinical study of BACE inhibitors against Alzheimer's Disease

Baylor Health Care and Scott & White Healthcare Agree to Merge

Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare have signed a letter of intent to merge, becoming the biggest health system in Texas

RadPac Raised More Than $1.26 Million in 2012

The political action committee of the American College of Radiology had its biggest year yet and now ranks third among health care PACs in money raised

Medical Device Tax Will Cost Jobs Finds MITA Member Survey

Device manufacturers that responded to the survey say they will cut jobs in manufacturing, sales, and research and development because of the new tax.

MITA Applauds CMS Proposal to Remove National Non-Coverage Decision for PET

The CMS proposal would allow its local contractors to determine coverage for new PET oncology tracers as soon as the tracers are approved for use by the FDA

Allstate Awarded $7 Million Verdict in Imaging Scam

Court finds Long Beach, CA, chiropractor Daniel Dahan and his business, Progressive Diagnostic Imaging, used fake radiology reports to defraud the insurer

Diagnosing Dementing Disease: A Neurologist’s QI Wish List

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Imaging can play a valuable role in the early diagnosis of dementing disease. In a special-interest session held on November 26, 2012, at the annual meeting of the RSNA in Chicago, Illinois, neurologist Norman Foster, MD, copresented “What Imaging Measurements Are Needed in Clinical Practice?” He explains how imaging can increase physician