The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality desperately needs to restructure the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which more than a dozen organizations claim suffers from a lack of transparency and nonrepresentation of key medical specialties.
Written by Lisa Fratt
Radiology professionals should respond to challenges presented by healthcare reform by developing the prognostic capabilities of imaging technologies, creating new subspecialty programs that reflect the growing influence of molecular and theranostic imaging and preparing for payment models that more accurately reflect the role of imaging, according to an article in this month's
Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Emphasizing both deficit reduction and investment, President Barack Obama has sent his 2012 budget to Congress, which includes a two-year extension of steady Medicare reimbursements and $32 billion in funding to the National Institutes of Health—paid for, in part, by $62 billion worth of Medicare savings.
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