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

I have written frequently about the implications of economic turbulence in radiology; we are facing some now, and others will unfold in the months and years ahead. These far-reaching implications concern nothing less than the survival of some private radiology practices and the death of fee-for-service payment. Our current economic model is

A Lancet study about the long-term cancer risks associated with CT scans for pediatric patients continues to draw reactions from the imaging world.

With leverage provided by a private financier, the Center for Diagnostic Imaging of Minneapolis, MN will merge with Insight Imaging of Lake Forest, CA, forming an imaging chain that extends through half the country.

Intelerad Medical Systems announced at SIIM 2012 the support for Tomosynthesis in the IntelePACS Breast Imaging module.