This week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONR) threw down a $150,000 gauntlet for the development of a multidisciplinary solution that would advance electronic image collection and sharing across a variety of specialties.

After a two-week trial, a Dallas jury awarded Dr. Erwin Cruz nearly $11 million in damages, finding that his former business partners, Mehrdad "Mike" Ghani and Dr. Michael Taba, tried to undermine his stake in a pair of imaging practices: North Dallas Medical Imaging, L.P., and Plano AMI, L.P., according to a statement from Cruz's attorneys.

"Traditional radiology has had much to say about teleradiology...yet relatively little has been written about radiology and radiology practice from the perspective of teleradiology," says Vanderbilt University radiologist Richard G. Abramson in the journal Radiology this month.

Earlier this week, a settlement was reached in a five-year whistleblower suit against Minneapolis, MN-based Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Inc..

Phoenix, AZ-based DICOM Grid closed a $5 million round of expansion financing today that the company hopes will allow for the expansion of its DG Suite cloud-based imaging platform.

Radiologists at Thomas Jefferson University were awarded a five-year, $2.6 million NIH grant to develop a new PET/CT technique that could eliminate the need for confirmation biopsies in the detection of prostate cancer.

Innovation in imaging IT will take center stage at SIIM 2012, when the top five imaging IT projects of 2012 will be presented to convention attendees.

A new QA compliance module could help reduce errors in clinical data submission and accelerate the speed at which imaging data for medical trials is processed.