In a deal that both parties say will create the first digital management portfolio to track both CT radiation and contrast dosage, Bayer HealthCare and Radimetrics, Inc. will co-distribute a radiology workflow solution that addresses both issues.

Ever since the 2009 shutdown of the Chalk River nuclear reactor in Canada, the North American imaging community has been searching for a viable source of production to replace the loss of its top isotope generator.

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According to a 2011 report¹ developed by Radiology Business Journal with data from SDI (formerly Verispan), while imaging-center chains in the United States experienced a slower rate of growth in 2011 than in previous years, the total number of imaging centers in the country increased by 72, for a total of 6,383. At a time when radiology-group

In January 2011, Canopy Partners, a management-services organization (MSO), officially spun off from Greensboro Radiology in North Carolina. The large practice had been providing business, IT, and other nonclinical services to some of its partners and was working to diversify its offerings further. Worth Saunders, MHA, CEO of Canopy Partners, says,

At the 22nd Annual National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ellen Nipe, Sherrill Little, MD, and colleagues presented the poster session “Systematic Risk Assessment in a Large Imaging Center” on March 13, 2012, reporting the results of an experiment at Booth Radiology (Woodbury, New Jersey). The practice currently

In August 2011, Columbia Memorial Hospital (Hudson, New York) began the process of selecting a new CT system to replace the four-slice system that the organization had been using in its emergency department. As Rhonda Makoske, director of medical imaging, explains, the 192-bed acute-care hospital is a local stroke center; two 64-slice CT systems

In early May, the ACR® submitted comments to CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT on the proposed rules¹ for stage 2 of the meaningful-use incentive program. The proposal from the federal agencies, released March 7, is much more inclusive of radiology than the rules for stage 1 were, with new objectives that include