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Alpha Imaging buys Medical Imaging Systems
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging equipment distributor Alpha Imaging has purchased fellow imaging equipment distributor Medical Imaging Systems of Stratford, CT.
September 4, 2017
IRE-ELiT signs deal with Cardinal Health
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Belgian radiopharmaceutical developer Institute for Radioelements - Environment and Life Science Technology (IRE-ELiT) has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with radiopharmaceutical supplier Cardinal Health.
September 4, 2017
No need for RBMs: In-house efforts cut imaging rates
By Kate Madden Yee
Radiology practices can reduce the use of inappropriate high-cost imaging exams such as CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and PET by establishing an in-house imaging utilization management program, thus avoiding external oversight from a radiology benefits management (RBM) firm, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.
September 4, 2017
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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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