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.

While it remains strongly in favor of serious, properly designed proposals to eliminate the sustainable growth rate (SGR), the American College of Radiology (ACR) has issued a statement is expressing strong opposition to Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommendations pertaining to such a move.

Health care claims information—representing more than $1 trillion in treatment and services rendered over the past 11 years—will be submitted by four major health plans and Medicare to the newly formed Health Care Cost Institute for researcher analysis of the primary drivers of costs and utilization.

Appropriateness criteria developed in 2009 by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) perform “fairly well” for certain indications, reducing the number of inappropriate imaging exams, reveals a study presented at ASNC's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado last week.