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6 things new dept. chairs should know about capital budgets
By Dr. Geoffrey Rubin
You're a newly minted department chair, and you're about to attend your first capital budget meeting, where a proposal for a new MRI scanner is on the agenda. How should you handle it? Fortunately, we have a few tips from Dr. Geoffrey Rubin from Duke University and the Radiology Leadership Institute.
September 4, 2017
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ACC releases valvular heart imaging guidelines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has released appropriate use criteria guidelines for multimodality imaging for the diagnosis and management of valvular heart disease.
September 1, 2017
Rights group says Turkish radiologist languishes in jail
By Brian Casey
A human rights group in Sweden has picked up the case of a Turkish radiologist who it claims has been languishing in jail for the past year on trumped-up charges that he was connected with a coup against the Turkish government in 2016.
August 31, 2017
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ASTRO honors 43 researchers at annual meeting
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected 43 recipients to be presented with abstract awards at its 2017 annual meeting, to be held September 24-27 in San Diego.
August 31, 2017
Anthem move shows how payors are 'steering' patients
By Kate Madden Yee
In an effort to contain healthcare costs, insurers are resorting to "steering," or pushing patients toward a particular form of imaging service. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the move by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Indianapolis to require physicians to get permission for CT and MRI scans in hospital outpatient settings.
August 31, 2017
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Most Houston hospitals back online after Harvey
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hospitals in the Houston metropolitan area are beginning to reopen after some were shut down during Tropical Storm Harvey, according to an August 30 report on NPR's "All Things Considered" program.
August 30, 2017
RT educator unwraps mummy secrets in Peru | 3D US for thyroid tumors | Patients prefer oral contrast
By Brian Casey
August 30, 2017
ACR names Pisano chief science officer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has appointed Dr. Etta Pisano to the position of chief science officer at its Center for Research and Innovation.
August 30, 2017
RT educator unwraps secrets of Peruvian mummies
By Julie Ostrowski
Move over Indiana Jones -- meet Julie Ostrowski, a radiologic technologist (RT) instructor from Illinois. Ostrowski recently returned from an expedition to Peru, where she helped catalog mummies as part of a project to uncover the secrets of the Chachapoya culture, which flourished in the Andes hundreds of years before the Incas.
August 30, 2017
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UVA joins forces with Foundation Radiology Group
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The University of Virginia (UVA) Health System in Charlottesville and imaging services provider Foundation Radiology Group have inked a radiology and medical imaging services partnership agreement aimed at expanding access to subspecialty radiology interpretations in Virginia.
August 28, 2017
ASRT donates to hurricane relief efforts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) said it will donate $10,000 to the American Red Cross to assist with disaster relief efforts in Texas in response to Tropical Storm Harvey.
August 28, 2017
Anthem to review hospital outpatient CT, MRI scans
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Health insurance giant Anthem plans to stop automatically paying for hospital-based outpatient CT and MRI exams for its members, shifting instead to what it calls a "medical necessity review" of these exams designed to move studies to freestanding centers.
August 28, 2017
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