Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

RadNet Posts Q1 Results: Revenue, Assets Up

After a quarter of aggressive partnerships and acquisitions in early 2012, RadNet still posted a 17 percent increase in year-over-year revenues for the quarter, which totaled $168.5 million. Per-share net income for the quarter was flat, an improvement over Q1 2011 figures, when shares lost $0.02 apiece.

Lantheus Inks Isotope Deal with JHS as Ben Venue Exits the Picture

As Ben Venue Laboratories continues to withdraw from the contract manufacturing services market, its client, Lantheus Medical Imaging, has found a new partner for the manufacture of a pair of contrast agents.

GE Installs First SenoBright Scanner in the U.S.

With the potential to provide adjunctive therapies and on-site reading in a single appointment, the new SenoBright breast imaging technology from GE could be a game-changer, the company says.

Healthcare Reform Will Not Mean Less Imaging, Says Regents Health

Whatever form the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) may take—and we are, of course, in an election year—a confluence of factors conspires to keep radiologists in demand for the foreseeable future, says Brian Baker, President of the Franklin, TN-based Regents Health Resources.

FDA Issues Guidance Document on Pediatric Imaging

Today the FDA released for public comment a guidance document on pediatric imaging that should help x-ray manufacturers develop devices better suited to safely imaging child patients.

Unecessary Imaging Related to Cost? Liability? Lack of Information?

Instances in which imaging is unnecessarily performed may be related to a gap in adherence to report recommendations, says new research from Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Medical Center, NJ Radiology Group Train Chinese Doctors in Interventional Techniques

CentraState Medical Center just finished a week-long training program for physicians from China on comprehensive imaging and interventional techniques for diagnosing breast cancer.

Most Stroke Victims Do Not Get Diagnostic Imaging Fast Enough

Fewer than half of all stroke patients undergo brain imaging within the AHA-recommended, 25-minute window after arriving at the ER, according to a new study in the journal Stroke.