The ASRT Foundation has announced the recipients of its entry-level and professional scholarships for the 2013-2014 academic year.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Council elected Albert L. Blumberg, M.D., FACR, of Baltimore, president of the American College of Radiology (ACR) during the recent ACR 90th Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

A woman from Chalmette, La., has filed a lawsuit against a New Orleans hospital and imaging provider, claiming she fell on a broken sidewalk that should have been better maintained.

Health care in the U.S. is changing, and radiologists, at all career levels, need to obtain the leadership skills necessary to adapt to these changes and keep radiology as central to the delivery of high quality medical care. In response to this growing need, the American College of Radiology (ACR) Foundation recently launched a national fundraising campaign called Leading Radiology Into the Future. All proceeds of this new initiative will be used to further develop and strengthen the Radiology Leadership Institute™ (RLI) — radiology’s first professional development and leadership academy.

Lisa Bartenhagen, M.S., R.T.(R)(T)(ARRT), and Barbara J. Smith, M.S., R.T.(R)(QM)(ARRT), FASRT, FAEIRS, have been appointed to four-year terms on the ARRT Board of Trustees, beginning August 1, 2013.

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists has announced the 2012-2013 winners of the Jean I. Widger Distinguished Author Award and the Harold Silverman Distinguished Author Award, honoring the best peer-reviewed articles published in ASRT’s scientific journals.

On March 22, 2013, El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) was notified that x-rays ECRMC had provided to a trusted vendor for digitization and destruction were missing from a storage warehouse and may not have been properly destroyed.

As healthcare moves from a volume to a value proposition, building better, more efficient patient care is increasingly important. Radiologists will learn skills to help navigate this transition, become better leaders, and thrive under new delivery and payment systems, at the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) RLI Annual Event, to be held July 25–28, 2013, at the Kellogg School of Management on Northwestern University’s Evanston, IL, campus.