Emergency department visits for children with congenital heart disease (CHD) are getting more expensive over time but mortality rates are improving, according to an analysis of more than 420,000 CHD-related trips to the ED over a nine-year period.

The Trump administration’s efforts to roll back regulations that limit radiation levels could take a significant step forward this week.

A majority of physicians believe electronic health records (EHRs) negatively impact their relationships with patients, productivity and workflow, according to a recent survey by The Doctors Company.

Senior Executive to Leverage His Experience at athenahealth, VitalWorks, and AMICAS to Advise the Patient Access Leader on its Growth Strategy and Commercial Execution

The American College of Radiology (ACR) released an update to the ACR Appropriateness Criteria on Monday, Oct. 1. The update includes 179 diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology topics with 898 clinical variants covering more than 1,560 clinical scenarios.

Medicare Advantage (MA) provider HealthCare Partners Holdings has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve its False Claims Act liability after providing inaccurate information that caused MA plans to receive inflated Medicare payments, the Department of Justice announced this week.

Increases in tricuspid regurgitation (TR) severity occurred in 11.5 percent of patients following transvenous lead extraction, according to a single-center study, which also identified lead age as an important predictor of acute TR increases and tricuspid valve injury.

Synthetic mammography (SM) plus digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) have a comparable sensitivity and specificity for the detection of microcalcifications, according to new research published in Radiology.

Scientific Station Staffed All Year Despite Nine Months Of Temperatures That Can Dip to -120 Degrees Fahrenheit

A team of health technology organizations joined forces to develop a new tool that makes it easier for patients to request and receive digital copies of their health records in the format of their choice.