Indianapolis-based insurer WellPoint is first out of the gate among the nation's insurers in deciding to cover low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in heavy smokers, company spokesperson Jill A. Becher confirmed to ImagingBiz today.

A report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says adoption of health information technology by doctors has doubled in two years and created more than 50,000 jobs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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