Intermountain Healthcare says it is joining with GE Healthcare to reduce radiation dose in CT procedures at its facilities by up to 50 percent, using the GE Blueprint for low dose.

In July, the total number of co-sponsors for Senate bill number 2347, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, doubled from six to 12, the ACR stated today.

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), members of the radiation oncology community discovered that they would face for cuts representing a 15 percent reduction in overall payment. According to the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), this would

Late yesterday afternoon, RadNet Inc., the nation’s largest imaging center chain, performed its first Alzheimer’s Disease test using Eli Lilly’s radioactive tracer Amyvid and PET/CT imaging, confirmed Judith Rose, MD, director of PET/CT and nuclear medicine for RadNet.

Final Stage 3 meaningful use rules are a long way away—2014 by most estimates—but initial guidelines are indeed being discussed. According to Michael Peters, the American College of Radiology (ACR) continues to strongly advocate for appropriateness / criteria-based clinical decision support (CDS) to be leveraged by referring physicians during order

The eagerly awaited follow-up study to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Rule Out Myocardial Infarction/Ischemia Using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) study is out, and it could support adding coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to chest pain ER screening procedures.

New York has become the fourth state with a breast density inform law. Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed the “Breast Density Inform” (S.6769-B) legislation and the law will take effect in 180 days.

The ACR has gone on the offensive to counter possible misunderstandings about imaging that may result from a new study in the the August issue of Health Affairs. The study found that the use of advanced imaging for Medicare patients decreased in 2006 and 2007, after 10 years of rapid increase (more than 6% growth annually) in imaging utilization.