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Reston, Va. (April 16, 2013) — The American College of Radiology (ACR) has been awarded Accreditation with Commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

Accreditation with Commendation is awarded to providers that demonstrate compliance in each of the ACCME’s 22 accreditation criteria. This honorable designation is achieved by approximately 21 percent…

We've all heard of YouTube and chances are you have watched more than a few videos on the site over the years. But what is relatively unknown is whether YouTube is an effective and desirable location for online radiology education.

Six months ago, and with the collaborative backing of Radiopaedia.org, I launched ‘Radiology Channel’ as an…

26/03/2013, Wilmington, DE, USA – QUBYX has announced a major update of its DICOM calibration software for Mac OS. PerfectLum 3.5 for Mac features a number of usability and functionality improvements, enabling radiology practitioners to use Mac-based machines for diagnostics and medical image viewing.…

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(DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING) - When you spend most of your waking hours each week at work, good relationships with colleagues go a long way in helping you improve your performance, and you’d likely feel less stressed. Often in radiology, much attention is paid to improving relations with referring physicians. What about your radiologic technologists?

How can radiologists…

Reston, Va. (Feb. 20, 2013) — Since its launch, less than two years ago, over five million computed tomography (CT) scans, and nearly three million exams, have been added to the American College of Radiology (ACR) Dose Index Registry™ (DIR) — bringing the ACR closer to establishing national benchmarks for CT dose indices which will help ensure patients receive safe, quality imaging care.

The DIR is a radiology data registry that provides standardized,…

I would like to invite you to try a new Web site dedicated to indexing, in one place, all the free educational radiology Ebooks and radiology Apps currently available.

To create the site I have searched through the Amazon Kindle, Apple iTunes and Google Play stores.

I would appreciate it if you would take a moment to view the site and give me any feedback you have, and more importantly give me links to any other free radiology Ebooks and Apps that you know of.

The site…

Reston, Va. (Jan. 9, 2013) — According to an article in the January issue of the ACR Bulletin, the ACR recently donated a one-of-kind film of Marie Curie receiving the ACR Gold Medal in 1931 to the Curie Museum in Paris. Famous for the discovery of polonium and radium, Curie was recognized by the ACR for her significant contributions to the field of radiology.  

For 81 years the film…

Reston, VA (Jan. 10, 2013) — Availability of CT colonography (CTC), commonly known as virtual colonoscopy, is increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates across military medical facilities. Inclusion of CTC as a Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set® (HEDIS®)-compliant colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test can potentially raise overall screening rates, according to a study in the January issue of the Journal of the American…

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(DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING) -- The rhetoric is off the charts: This is an election that will change everything for radiologists, for the medical profession, for the future of health care. According to this school of thought, the man who takes the White House will have a hand in determining reimbursement, setting health policy, defining quality and even allowing the independent practice of radiology to survive.

But the truth may be more nuanced — health care reform isn’t an…

QUBYX and their U.S. partner Shareden Group will exhibit PerfectLum calibration and QA software and the new Dell U3011 & PerfectLum bundle at RSNA 2012 in Chicago.

10/30/2012, Nice, France - QUBYX Software Technologies Ltd., a display calibration solutions…

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QUBYX will offer its products to the US medical…

Special Journal Issue Focuses on Radiology’s Role in Health Care Reform

Reston, Va. (Sept. 27, 2012) — To be published online Monday, Oct. 1, a special issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology will focus on health policy and radiology’s role in health care reform. Topics to be covered include utilization management in radiology, clinical decision support, value-based health care payment systems and patient-centered outcomes in imaging.

“Health care reform will…

Radiologists Develop Evidence-Based Guidelines to Help Physicians Manage Patients with Acute Low Back Pain

Reston, Va. (Sept. 27, 2012) — According to an article in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, radiologists at Emory University Hospital, in Atlanta, and Georgia Health Sciences University, in Augusta, Ga., have developed evidence-based guidelines to assist physicians with the process of managing patients with acute low back pain. Low back pain…

RadiAnt is a fast and intuitive DICOM viewer for Windows systems.

It provides all necessary tools for the manipulation and measurement of images.

RadiAnt was designed to be as fast as possible on both modern and older systems.

Multiple modalities and DICOM file types are supported.

One can easy compare different series or studies using auto synchronization and cross-reference…

(DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING) -- Feeling stressed out or lacking motivation when you read studies? If so, you have lots of company.

Radiologists rank among the top five specialties that experience the greatest frequency of burnout, according to a recent Archives of Internal Medicine study. Nearly half of radiologists reported at least one symptom of burnout. Only providers in emergency medicine, general internal medicine, family medicine, and neurology are at equal or greater risk for this…

(NEW YORK, NY) - An owner of a Queens based radiology practice, Ting Huan Tai was arrested by federal authorities for over $30 million in medicare and medicaid fraud. Allegedly, he and conspirators were billing for radiology services that were never actually performed under a former radiologist's name. The federal authorities have seized assets including a Lamborghini and other items. Ting Huan Tai is currently on a $2 million bond as the investigation continues.