Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. has hired Karen Flanagan Kleinhans, MHA, as Chief of Strategy and Business Development. She will be responsible for CRL’s overall strategic direction, business development and marketing plans, the company says.

As pressure mounts to control health care costs, the American College of Radiology is taking action to accumulate real data on the impact of medical imaging on health care quality, delivery and cost. Today it announced that it is establishing the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) to “examine the role of radiology in new health care

Mark H. Wholey, MD, a leading interventional radiologist, formerly of UPMC, is moving to Allegheny General Hospital, a West Penn Allegheny Health System hospital whose long-time rivalry with UPMC turned into a legal battle last year when insurer Highmark announced plans to merge with West Penn Allegheny.

Accretive Health, a medical debt collection company, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the Minnesota state attorney general’s office to settle charges that it had pressured patients to pay for care prior to its delivery, according to the New York Times.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. announced the latest addition to its family of DR products, the FDR D-EVO Suite II. It is a cost effective, flexible, DR room solution designed to optimize workflow while utilizing any of Fujifilm’s popular FDR D-EVO portable detectors.

Agfa HealthCare announced that its table-top computed radiography (CR) solution, the CR 10-X, has acquired FDA 510(k) clearance. According to Agfa HealthCare, the CR 10-X is affordable, compact, and provides small hospitals and practices an economical path from analog to digital radiology.

Intermountain Healthcare says it is joining with GE Healthcare to reduce radiation dose in CT procedures at its facilities by up to 50 percent, using the GE Blueprint for low dose.

In July, the total number of co-sponsors for Senate bill number 2347, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, doubled from six to 12, the ACR stated today.