The Future of Radiology in the New Health Care Paradigm: The Moreton Lecture

Health care reform will catalzye a wave of experimentation with new forms of Medicare payment as well as reorganization of the care system. These changes could profoundly affect not only the discipline of radiology but the evolution of its core technologies. To respond successfully to these challenges, radiology must aggressively build out the prognostic power of its imaging tools. It must also help create new, subspecialty clinical disciplines to use those tools and develop new payment models that capture the value created for patients and for society.