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.

GE's Radiology App Gains FDA Approval

Applications for iPhone and iPad devices just got a lot more sophisticated as radiologists will now be able to remotely diagnose patient images from GE’s Centricity PACS.

RSNA Announces New Leaders

The Radiological Society of North America’s new president, George S. Bisset III, M.D., says he wants to improve member benefits through more interactive forms of education, according to an RSNA press release.

Familiarity With Imaging Procedures Increases Patient Acceptance, Siemens Survey Shows

A new survey indicates that patients' decision of whether or not to undergo a given imaging procedure correlates closely with their awareness of and familiarity with that particular test.

Obama Administration Eases Up on EHR Regulations

The Obama administration today announced that it would relax certain health care regulations as a component of its push to create jobs without waiting for any action by Congress.

ACR Program Introduces New App

The American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP), a program of the American College of Radiology, has unveiled a new iPad® edition of the 2011 AIRP Radiologic Pathology Correlation Course Syllabus.

Carmel: Income Cuts Loom Large For Radiologists

“Triple jeopardy” for income cuts is what radiologists in particular face following the inability of the congressional supercommittee to come to an agreement on ways to handle the federal deficit, Peter Carmel, MD, president of the American Medical Association (AMA), told attendees in a plenary speech delivered at this week’s Radiological Society

HHS Awards Funds for Health Insurance Exchanges

Thirteen states today received from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a total of $220 million in grants to build health insurance exchanges. Grant recipients include Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Vermont.

ACOs Won't Deliver Promised Savings, Federal Trade Commissioner Says

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) will not deliver on their proponents’ promise of reducing costs and improving quality of care, Federal Trade Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch told an audience at the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Fall Forum in Washington, D.C., on November 17.