Medicare proposes payment changes for long-term care hospitals for rate year 2008 and for Medicare graduate medical education
Medical imaging leasing kickbacks the focus of fraud case, ACR reports.
AHIMA Foundation releases report on its state-level HIE initiative project extension.
RSNA releases details on Gadolinium-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents; may be dangerous to patients with advanced kidney disease.
Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) angiography produces high-resolution images of the arteries that supply blood to the brain.
One out of four babies born vaginally may experience bleeding in and around the brain.
Finalists from Bronx, N.Y., Springfield, Mass., and Lewiston, Maine also recognized.
Broderick will lead the section's governing council on public policy issues concerning women and children's health.
Offers revenue cycle products and services for third-party practice management and billing.
First-ever Medical Equipment category awards go to Toshiba.
Agfa HealthCare's Hospital Information System (HIS) to offer secure workflows so as to reduce risk of medical errors.
The paperless hospital: ORBIS™ Hospital Information System (HIS) now in operation in all nine Vivantes healthcare institutions.
Philips' X-ray imaging technology combined with Stereotaxis magnetic solution installed at University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, and St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Boston.
GE to market 12 original satellite, live web and web archive programs to address outcomes, compliance topics.
Non-invasive patient monitor for continuous monitoring as well as for single spot-check measurements of vital signs.
Patient Care Technology System solutions track patients and equipment for leading hospitals.
Diamics, Inc. a San Francisco Bay-area medical device and diagnostics company, has appointed Christine A. Meda as President.
Med1Online to manage returns and refurbished Health o meter scales.
DOTmed Certified Todd Partridge applied knowledge of computer handling to shipping medical devices.
Acquires Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen (GSD).
Office of the Chief Medical Officer has been created and John R. Dyer, MPH, appointed COO
The new members are Catherine D. DeAngelis,Karen A. Holbrook, Ph.D., Ralph I. Horwitz, M.D.; Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.; Alan, I. Leshner, Ph.D., ; John C. Nelson, and Barbara L. Wolfe, Ph.D.
APEC ASIA, a U.S.-owned and operated subsidiary, will mirror APEC's Southern California operation in top level equipment and employee resources.
Confirma's CADstream™ to be Integrated with KODAK CARESTREAM Mammography Workstation.
Radiology center serving hospitals and clinics throughout South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa has deployed BridgeWave wireless solution.
Technical expertise and intense customer focus are keys to success.
UnitedHealthcare recognizes ACR accreditation as a means to ensure quality.
Medicare agency plans corrections, according to ACR.
Multi-specialty survey of America's physicians.
GE and FDA inform providers of NSF/NFD association.
Most of the nation's largest health care organizations have announced that they have agreed on a proposal that would significantly expand health coverage for America's uninsured. Calling itself the Health Coverage Coalition for the Uninsured (HCCU), the group is made up of 16 influential, national organizations.
2007 dates announced for February and May 2007.
A majority of the House and Senate has asked CMS to hold off on this rule and that direction has been ignored, according to AHA's Rick Pollack.
AHA names leader of governing council.
Collaboration strengthens both companies' market positions.
Advanced IT to help improve healthcare workflow and enhance patient safety initiatives.
KODAK Computed Radiography Digital Medical Imaging System earns 2006 'Best in KLAS' Award.
Company agrees to correct manufacturing deficiencies at facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah and Lawrence, Mass.
Policy would protect against mad cow disease.
Full line of analog and digital products to be available to Amerinet facilities for three more years.
Policy goes into effect March 1, 2008.
Highly anticipated radionuclide angiography and myocardial infarction topics now available.
Nation's leading physician groups join together to announce principles for reforming the U.S. health care system.
Hospitals fear selling IT tools to doctors at a discount may jeopardize tax-exempt status.
CDC awards $3.7 million to improve public health and healthcare information sharing for disease detection.
Mills turned a need into an opportunity when buying equipment as a doctor's office manager.
Kodak is selling its entire Health Group to Onex Corporation of Canada, a leading investing company, for $2.35 billion. Focus going forward will be on digital products, but executives say new entity is committed to supplying imaging film "long into the future."
Event to take place April 16-17 in Arlington, Va.
McGaffigan is veteran of Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Focus is on uninsured, Medicare reform and quality improvement.