University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Las Vegas-based Desert Radiology are partnering to improve education opportunities for radiography technician students.
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Melvin Clouse, MD, a pioneer in radiology and cardiology, died July 25 at 90.
Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth will become one of the nation's first health systems to install radiation protection shields in its hospitals.
The rate of radiologists' out-of-network imaging claims has significantly decreased over the past 15 years, according to a study published June 21 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Nine metropolitan areas have the highest average annual wage for radiologists, with Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minn.-Wisc., leading the way at over half a million dollars.
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Outpatient radiology services have more work to do with explaining price transparency to patients, a recent University of California Irvine and University of Michigan study found.
Radiology-only practices have decreased 31.8% in the last 10 years, a recent Renton, Va.-based Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study found.
Forty-two percent of radiologists supplement their work income with extra work, according to Medscape's "Radiologist Compensation Report," published May 24.
As oncology treatments continue to incorporate genomics, radiologists would benefit by becoming more familiar with the field, according to a clinical research review published Nov. 3 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer.
Warwick-based-Rhode Island Medical Imaging has joined the Strategic Radiology coalition.