Crestwood Hospital and the city of Madison, Alabama held a ceremony on July 12, to break ground on a new $7.5 million outpatient diagnostic and imaging facility.

Virtual Radiologic (vRad) congratulated its Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Pat Basu, MD, for his election to the Council on Foreign Relations and his recent appointment to the Illinois State Board of Health.

The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac hotel has partnered with a private radiology clinic in Quebec City to offer a "medical tourism package," claiming this is the first of its kind in Canada.

Charles Metz, mathematician and professor of radiology at the University of Chicago, died of pancreatic cancer at age 69 on Wednesday, July 4.

AB 510, the California bill that amends the California Radiation Protection Act that took effect on July 1, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on Friday, July 13.

Faced with a massive, vague health care law, a stalled economy, and spiraling health care costs, GE CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt signaled the readiness of employers to begin to bring their muscle to bear on the health care market, even to the point of eventually bypassing insurers.

This article is the first in a three-part series.

With reimbursement increasingly linked to patient satisfaction, as well as a growing consumer influence in health-care spending, making a positive patient experience possible is a priority for radiology groups and hospitals. Stephen Neushul, CEO of iCRco, a developer of CR, DR, and mammography systems (as well as complementary software), sat down