In a lawsuit filed on June 25, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission says that Dean Norman Janes, CEO of Imaging3, intentionally kept investors in the dark about the true reasons why the FDA turned down his company's application to market its Dominion Volumetric Imaging Scanner

As the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force weighs guidelines and uniform reimbursement policies regarding the use of low-dose CT scans for lung cancer screening, the question of whether the test is cost effective is the elephant in the room

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency is renewing its contract with Virtual Imaging Inc of Deerfield, Fla. — a Canon subsidiary

The acquisition will create a health care system encompassing 79 hospitals and 157 outpatient facilities spread over 16 states

HFMA has assembled a task force to address the issue of price transparency in health care, according to Joe Fifer, HFMA president and CEO, who made the announcement Tuesday at the annual conference in Orlando

As the demands placed on hospitals and health systems continue to intensify, the hospital-based radiology group will have to evolve to meet its constituents’ changing needs, according to Chad Calendine, MD, CMO of Optimal Radiology Partners. “It’s a story that is being written as we speak,” he says. “The underlying principle is that radiology groups need to be more aligned with their hospitals, and they have to be conspicuously and actively involved in helping the hospitals reach their goals.”

At Charlotte Orthopedic Hospital (COH) in North Carolina, a change similar to that happening in many hospitals across the country is underway: The facility is becoming more strongly linked to its parent organization, Novant Health. As Charnaye Bosley, RT, manager of radiology at COH, explains, “Where before, each facility kind of stood on its own and practiced what was best for it, now we’re all more deeply connected. We have a large footprint in and outside of the Charlotte community, but patients didn’t realize what a large network we have. Our goal, moving forward, is to be integrated, and part of my role is making that transition as smooth as possible.”

The emergence of a new, powerful imaging modality is cause for both celebration and consternation, and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has proven no exception to this rule, according to participants in a June 8 educational forum at the 2013 meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), held in Grapevine, Texas. Early results from sites offering DBT to their patients have been nothing short of extraordinary: X-ray Associates of New Mexico (XRANM) in Albuquerque, for instance, reports a 48% reduction in its recall rate, while the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) in Pennsylvania has seen a 40% increase in detection of invasive breast cancers, with a reduction in false positives of 15%.