RadNet recently expanded its California footprint by acquiring five imaging centers in the Fresno area, making it the leading non-hospital-based outpatient imaging operator in the region, according to an April 6 release.

Strategic Radiology announced Friday, April 6, that Minneapolis Radiology Associates has joined its coalition of independent radiology practices, making it the company’s 10th affiliate.

Amid ongoing controversies involving misuse of information about its users, Facebook has shelved plans to share user data with several major U.S. hospitals. CNBC reported the social media giant had scientists approach organizations, including the American College of Cardiology, about the project.

Metro Imaging, a radiology practice based out of Creve Coeur, Missouri, founded in 1994, often advertised the fact that it provided much more affordable imaging services than hospitals in the area. Now that it has been acquired by Mercy, a large healthcare system with hospitals throughout the Midwest, could those prices be changing?

In what some are calling the early stages in a trade war between the world’s two largest economies, the U.S. government has announced plans to place tariffs on more than 1,000 products imported from China—including medical imaging equipment.

In December 2016, a 59-year-old patient from Middletown, California, saw doctors twice in eight days at two different hospitals for upper back pain. The day after her second visit, she died after her aorta ruptured.

The U.S. government has proposed tariffs on more than a thousand products imported from China, including medical imaging equipment.

Patient portals are touted as a new avenue to improve engagement. But this new method of communication may be the cause of addition stress in the patients, according to the Washington Post.