As elected officials hunt for possible savings in the Federal budget to fund various end-of-year priorities — including at least a temporary fix to for the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) cuts to Medicare physician reimbursement scheduled for January 1 — it is vital that policy makers have a correct picture of current levels of imaging utilization,

California’s Governor, Jerry Brown, has signed Senate Bill 1538 into law and expanded by several million the number of U.S. women who must be informed about their breast density status along with their mammogram results.

Carestream Health and Bruker have agreed to have Bruker purchase the preclinical in-vivo imaging equipment product portfolio and related assets from Carestream’s Molecular Imaging business. Financial terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.

Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) earlier this month may have sounded familiar to radiologists and radiology practice directors. The 2,000-word report—entitled “Best Care at Lower Cost”—never mentions imaging, but the goals and sentiments have been on the radiology radar for a long time.

Mach 7 Technologies (Mach7), a global provider of enterprise clinical image management solutions, has been named the Global Enterprise Imaging Informatics Entrepreneurial Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan.

Radiological Associates of Sacramento's teleradiology division, teleRAS, announced a partnership with the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson Department of Medical Imaging.

As the use of digital X-ray on pediatric patients grows, the ACR's Image Gently campaign “Back to Basics” initiative is moving forward in getting practical resources on minimizing radiation exposure in pediatric patients into the hands of providers. This week it announced new online teaching materials, checklists and practice quality improvement

The annual end-of-year march to the Capitol to seek repeals for proposed or scheduled cuts to Medicare has added urgency this year. Against the backdrop of an upcoming additional $11 billion cut in Medicare mandated by last year’s Budget Control Act, the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) is meeting with lawmakers Thursday to ensure it