Advocate Health Care, the largest integrated health care system in the state of Illinois, and GE Healthcare, announced a joint effort to reduce radiation dose in Computed Tomography (CT). The goal is to optimize care for patients and reduce radiation without adversely impacting image quality. It’s one of the first announcements of the GE Blueprint

DR Systems announced that e|HR Meaningful Use for Medical Imaging, a cloud-based ambulatory EHR for radiologists, is now commercially available after successful beta testing.

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is the largest healthcare convention in the US, according to the Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association annual list of the 50 largest US medical meetings in 2011. RSNA regained the top spot with reported a total attendance of 59,097.

Officials at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) hope a 16-page letter to CMS will help reverse a proposed 15% reduction in payment for radiation oncology services. CMS floated the decrease in late July as part of the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS).

Representative Patrick Meehan (R-Pa) received the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance’s (MITA) 2012 “Access to Innovation” Award for his efforts to "promote patient access to medical imaging, advancing innovation, and supporting jobs within the imaging industry." Siemens Healthcare presented Representative Meehan with the award at Siemens’

The FDA has approved the American College of Radiology (ACR) to accredit the Agfa full field digital mammography (FFDM) system beginning Sept. 14, 2012.

The Vail Breast Cancer Awareness Group, based in Vail, Colo., has made a $50,000 donation to the Sonnenalp Breast Diagnostic Imaging Center at the Shaw Regional Cancer Center to help women who need but can't afford additional diagnostic imaging following a mammogram, reports local paper the Vail Daily.

Reiterating its arguments from last year when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) first proposed a multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) on the professional component of imaging studies performed by physicians in the same group practice, the ACR pushed back hard against this idea in its formal written response to CMS this