Within radiology, interoperability and sharing information are among our most challenging and important tasks.

MRI has come a long way since its inception, and it has yet to cease evolving. New developments continue to surface, bringing with them changes in radiology practice patterns and opportunities to bolster revenues by attracting new patient populations.

Few developments in radiology have been more productive (or disruptive) than the advent of PACS. To PACS, radiology owes its ability to increase productivity dramatically during the past 10 years, thereby conserving income levels at a time of diminishing reimbursement.

Radiology Business Journal brings you this inaugural list of the largest academic radiology practices with our usual caveat: We know that this list is not complete.

Gone are the days when radiology managed image data in a silo: CIOs are engaged in imaging informatics.

Priors >>

The indefinite path to qualifying for Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act funds just came into greater focus, but it’s not to everyone’s liking.

Gary Becker, MD, outgoing president of the RSNA, read members the equivalent of the riot act in his presidential address on November 29 in Chicago, Illinois, kicking off the 2009 meeting and jump-starting the quality-improvement movement in radiology.

Hospitals are keeping a wary eye on Washington, and on several key payor trends with major implications for imaging service lines, for good reason.

Departments >>

All across the country, we are seeing the dissolution of long-time hospital–practice relationships that are part of the community fabric

Observations, predictions, and prescriptions for the imaging-center industry

Whipped to an overblown froth by media attention, the radiation-safety issue will, for better or worse, get the attention that it demands