GE and Trice Imaging partner for cloud-based ultrasound
Tricefy is now available with GE's Voluson E series and ViewPoint 6 software

Researchers crunch numbers on ACO's impact on radiology
Payment models impact cost, quality, utilization, and technological investment

Faster technology, stricter regulations are taking CT to the next level
A run down on the trends and breakthroughs shaping CT

Telemedicine a boon to remote Alaska health care delivery
Iliuliuk Family and Health Services is no longer completely on its own

Multi-department PACS: a redundancy-killing component of value-based care
Bundled payments don't pay for retests due to lack of access to the original

Is telemedicine the key to curbing rural hospital graveyard shift expenses?
One videoconferencing 'robot on wheels' is saving hospitals 40 percent

9/11 firefighters have greater risk of thyroid, prostate cancers: study
Other forms of cancer do not appear to be developing at higher levels

University of Southern California installs MR Solutions’ cryogen-free 7T PET/MR
Researchers will use system to study Alzheimer's

Big mergers bad medicine for health care: AMA
Anthem-Cigna would 'squash competition' in 24 state markets

Refurbished market forecast to hit $12 billion by 2021
OEMs spur growth with ramped-up global refurb efforts

Report finds ACOs have increased use of screening mammography
Under the ACA, the Medicare Shared Savings Program is yielding results

CT dose optimization and its global impact on stakeholders
The rarely discussed importance of dose tracking software maintenance

Using image-guided nuclear intervention to cut cancer cells off at the pass
Researchers use PET probes to visualize treatments through cell surface signaling

Computer program identifies brain cancer faster, more accurately than physicians
May ultimately help reduce need for invasive biopsies

Wisconsin academic medical center installs Elekta’s MR-linac system
It’s the fifth installation globally

New breast imaging tool may spare thousands of women from second surgery
Developers see pathway toward handheld model

GE to invest $167 million in Irish biopharma manufacturing campus
The facility is slated to create 500 permanent jobs

Johnson & Johnson to acquire Abbott's eye surgery unit for $4.33 billion
A major pickup in a fast-growing health care segment

MR and ultrasound 3-D combo prove better at finding early prostate cancer
MRI-TRUS distinguishes aggressive from low-risk strains

Minorities and women less likely to receive lifesaving stroke treatment
It’s an issue among cancer patients as well

How hospitals can recover from — and prevent — ransomware attacks
Over 230 health care breaches impacted the records of 500-plus people last year

Opening a proton therapy center
Most new proton therapy centers must overcome daunting challenges to succeed