The Radiological Society of North America’s 102nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (RSNA 2016), held Nov. 27-Dec. 2 in Chicago, highlighted RSNA’s ongoing commitment to improve patient care through radiology education, research and technological innovation.

Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. has partnered with 7Dimaging to strengthen its educational resources for musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK) by offering the mskNAV Education Tool.

A new free resource allows radiologists to determine whether they would have been designated as patient-facing by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2012 through 2014. Developed by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, the Radiologist Patient Facing Dataset (RPFD) allows users to look up all the radiologists in their practice to determine if they are likely to be exempt under the Merit-Based Incentive System (MIPS) group reporting option.

January 19, 2017 — Hitachi Ltd. announced the formation of a new Americas business group focused on consolidating its ...

An article promoting standardized imaging efforts to improve diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer has been selected as the best clinical research paper published in European Urology.

In an article published in the January 2017 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers assert that exposure to medical radiation does not increase a person’s risk of getting cancer. The long-held belief that even low doses of radiation, such as those received in diagnostic imaging, increase cancer risk is based on an inaccurate, 70-year-old hypothesis, according to the authors.