On February 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an extension to the attestation deadline for Medicare EHR Incentive Program reporting periods that occurred in calendar year (CY) 2014. 

DR Systems, the privately held supplier of PACS, RIS and EHR systems based in San Diego—a highly regarded fixture in the radiology IT space for close to a quarter-century—has been acquired for $70 million by publicly traded Merge Healthcare.

Did you make a new year’s resolution this year? Have you kept it? You may not be alone.

More than three-quarters of private radiology groups, some 76%, are actively marketing themselves on Facebook, Twitter and the like. Less than a third of academic radiology departments (28%) are following suit—but that’s likely to change, and soon.

At the current rate of innovation in healthcare and technology, how do we keep our kids informed of the types of careers available to them?  

The ubiquity of mobile computing across society and throughout healthcare has sharply raised expectations around the speed of communications. Where once referring physicians anticipated waits of several days to receive radiology reports, whether by courier, fax or sometimes even snail mail, they now bristle at lag times measured in hours or even minutes. Increasingly, patients want the same for themselves.

Sectra, the global supplier of healthcare IT and image-management systems based in Sweden, has closed a sale in its home country worth more than $24 million. 

Assuming the American College of Radiology’s latest workforce survey reflects the radiology specialty in toto, male radiologists practicing fulltime outnumber their female peers more than 8 to 2.