The interventional-radiology department at Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) was an early adopter of the workflow tool HI-IQ, developed by ConexSys; however, a recent initiative to develop a paperless workflow led the department to fuller use of its features. “When I came on board two years ago, we sat down and looked at the capabilities

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The rhetoric has been pretty hot as the presidential candidates face off in the final sprint to the finish line. Much of the discussion concerns the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but no small amount of attention has also been paid to a debate about the respective roles of business and government, beyond health care, in the broader

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) have agreed to make ACPE the newest affiliate organization of the ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI).

Radisphere has launched the Radiology Quality Institute (RQI), a collaborative research organization dedicated to the identification and promotion of radiology quality standards in order to improve health care delivery.

Among the 11 ideas for bending the cost curve in health care offered in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine are several that directly concern medical imaging providers -- most notably the proposal to institute competitive bidding for all “commodities” and create price transparency for consumers.

A Florida judge has denied hospital operator Adventist Health System’s motion to dismiss a 2010 whistle-blower case filed against it by a radiologist and a billing coding and reimbursement compliance officer. The suit alleges that Adventist Health routinely billed government payors for computer aided detection that was never performed and for a

RadNet, Inc. and Barnabas Health announced the operational commencement of their joint venture in New Jersey with the sale of RadNet’s West Orange, NJ, imaging center to Barnabas Health and the establishment of the joint venture’s first owned facility in Cedar Knolls, NJ.