Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based teleradiology provider, has announced that it will offer pro bono diagnostic radiology services to international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

While a mere 15% of health care executives are “very familiar” with accountable care organizations (ACOs), more than half are proceeding with plans to establish them, according to the 2011 Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Readiness Study released recently by Beacon Partners, a health care consulting company in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

The Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2011 (HR 3032), which would amend the Social Security Act to recognize radiologist assistants (RAs) as non-physician providers of health care services for Medicare beneficiaries, was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives on September 23.

The cost of defensive medicine ranges from 26% to 34% percent of total annual health care costs, according to a report by Jackson Healthcare, a health care solutions company. Annual spending on medical orders intended to avoid lawsuits, rather than to treat patients, totals $650 to $850 billion, the report indicates.

Top radiology and policy experts will offer solutions to critical imaging informatics and radiation dose challenges at the First Annual ACR Imaging Informatics Summit and Dose Monitoring Forum, to be held by the American College of Radiology (ACR) on November 3 and November 4 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C.

Sony Medical recently introduced the MD2GO™, a remote HD IP camera system from designed to enable HD video communication between remote parties, including multiple radiologists, radiologists and referring physicians, and radiologists and their patients.

Imaging cuts in the Obama administration’s deficit reduction proposal would restrict patient access to care and may actually increase costs, asserts the American College of Radiology (ACR) in a statement released today.

GE Healthcare has announced that it, along with several government and organization partners, has made a major “cancer commitment” wherein it will dedicate $1 billion of its R&D budget over the next five years for cancer diagnostics and the launch of new technology and solutions.