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Advanced imaging equipment using ionizing radiation enters the global market at the rate of one new technology every five years.

 Raquel Roman, chair of the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) Young Professionals Committee, and director of growth at Essential Radiology, explains how the group mentors the next generation leaders..

Raquel Roman, chair of the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) Young Professionals Committee, and director of growth at Essential Radiology, explains how the group mentors the next generation leaders.

Dave Walker explains how AI is helping improve the revenue cycle in radiology. #RBMA #RBMA24 #RBMA2024

Dave Walker, senior director of revenue cycle, Radiology Associates of North Texas, explains how his practice uses artificial intelligence for revenue cycle management during the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) 2024 meeting.

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Is portable MRI suitable for finding abnormalities in the brains of patients receiving new amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer’s disease? Clinical researchers are about to find out.

The American College of Radiology has named the 2024 winner of its Impact in Leadership Award as well as eight Emerging Leader Scholarship awardees. All were selected through the ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI).

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Radiology residents are no slackers when it comes to “giving back.” However, many seem to believe they must travel abroad to find medically underserved populations in serious need of charitable medical care.

The practice's mobile MR unit imaged nearly 2,400 patients in 2022, and leaders are projecting 94% growth by next year. 

money business cash flow dollar. Kingsway Financial Services, a Chicago-based holding company with subsidiaries in several industries, has acquired New Jersey-based Digital Diagnostics Imaging (DDI) for $11 million. The transaction was funded with $5.4 million in cash and $5.6 million in debt financing.

Leaders said previously that the publicly traded imaging provider will use the proceeds to fuel growth in Houston and elsewhere. 

The American Medical Association has sent its study to thousands of members of the specialty but only received seven responses, ACR says. 

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UnitedHealth recently announced plans to purchase Steward Medical Group, a multispecialty radiology provider that spans nine states, after private equity owners left it financially hamstrung. 

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“Rather than working longer and/or faster, there are ways for radiologists to work smarter," researchers wrote in the American Journal of Roentgenology

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In 2021, there were only nine available MIPS measures for diagnostic radiology versus 65 in family medicine, Neiman Health Policy Institute experts report. 

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According to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, 21% of all healthcare bankruptcies in 2023 involved organizations owned by financial firms.

The two companies have partnered on a new FDA-cleared CT injection system for the early detection of breast cancer.

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.