Despite radiology’s love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence (AI), advancements could afford the field an opportunity to “hit refresh” and reinvent itself, Emory University professor and radiologist Srini Tridandapani, PhD, MD, MSCR, wrote in Academic Radiology this month.

If radiology is to fulfill its promise to increasingly operate as a patient-centered specialty, radiologists and radiology administrators must not only partner with patients on clinical care but also “understand who patients are in their family and in their community.”

Strategic Radiology announced Friday, April 6, that Minneapolis Radiology Associates has joined its coalition of independent radiology practices, making it the company’s 10th affiliate.

As radiology practices grapple with the specialist shortages and drawn-out wait times that accompany a nationwide push for more specialized MRI, one Michigan practice is successfully solving both problems.

Radiology rounds were once common, allowing radiologists and referring physicians to interact on a regular basis and discuss patient care. Today, however, they are largely a thing of the past.

Metro Imaging, a radiology practice based out of Creve Coeur, Missouri, founded in 1994, often advertised the fact that it provided much more affordable imaging services than hospitals in the area. Now that it has been acquired by Mercy, a large healthcare system with hospitals throughout the Midwest, could those prices be changing?

A month after initial allegations, the second half of a UPMC radiology duo accused of prescribing illegal painkillers to patients is facing federal charges of healthcare fraud, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported this week.

One Philadelphia-based medical center claims to have discovered a method that can decrease radiation dose during CT scans by 40 percent, CBS Philly has reported.

Sarcopenia, or low muscle mass, occurs in more than one-third of newly diagnosed nonmetastatic breast cancer patients and is associated with higher overall mortality, according to a new study in JAMA Oncology.

As online learning options for radiology continue to grow, some students are turning to Second Life—a virtual community developed by its own users and reigned by avatars—to complete their medical education, researchers in Malaga, Spain, have found.