Charles Metz, mathematician and professor of radiology at the University of Chicago, died of pancreatic cancer at age 69 on Wednesday, July 4.

AB 510, the California bill that amends the California Radiation Protection Act that took effect on July 1, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on Friday, July 13.

Faced with a massive, vague health care law, a stalled economy, and spiraling health care costs, GE CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt signaled the readiness of employers to begin to bring their muscle to bear on the health care market, even to the point of eventually bypassing insurers.

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With reimbursement increasingly linked to patient satisfaction, as well as a growing consumer influence in health-care spending, making a positive patient experience possible is a priority for radiology groups and hospitals. Stephen Neushul, CEO of iCRco, a developer of CR, DR, and mammography systems (as well as complementary software), sat down

Evidence suggests that imaging utilization declined between 2009 and 2011, particularly for the high-tech modalities, including CT and MRI. Data1 from Regents Health Resources published in Radiology Business Journal indicate that growth in medical imaging slowed, relative to US population growth, in this time period, and that CT utilization

Thanks to the June 28 Supreme Court decision, one problem that radiology practices might not face for much longer is managing payment from uninsured patients—an issue that currently plagues hospital-based groups, in particular, according to Krista Pelensky, director of operations with Medical Management Professionals (MMP). “Many hospital-based

One trend, in medicine, is for primary-care and specialty physicians to use ultrasound—and, perhaps, other imaging modalities—in their practices. From my perspective (and with 20 years of experience as an imaging and hospital administrator and consultant, US medicine is evolving away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward outcomes-based