President Obama has signed H.R. 527, the "Helium Stewardship Act of 2013," into law, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to continue to sell crude helium from the Federal Helium Reserve until September 30, 2014, and avoiding disruption to the helium supply that could hurt MR manufacturers, MR users and all other industries that depend on a stable helium supply

Health care lobbyists tell Washington, D.C., news source The Hill that they are close to winning a repeal of the 2.3% medical device excise tax included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the mounting pressure on both parties to compromise on a government funding and debt ceiling deal may be working in their favor

In order to improve Lexmark’s Perceptive healthcare content management and workflow solutions and vendor neutral archive (VNA), Lexmark International has acquired leading PACS connectivity platform PACSGEAR for a cash purchase price of approximately $54 million

It is hard to measure the indirect impact on medical imaging from the overall negative economic consequences of a government shutdown. However, the direct impact on practical day-to-day business operations should be fairly small judging by the contingency plans of various government agencies

Last year, the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) referred to the 2.3% medical device excise tax as a “job killing” burden that would also “stifle innovation.” More than a year after the NCPA Issue Brief, the tax lives on

In a debate on H.J. Res. 59, the Continuing Resolution, that would raise the U.S. debt ceiling, Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged their colleagues to consider an amendment to repeal the 2.3 percent Medical Device Tax

Seventeen senators have written to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to ask her to delay penalties on providers who will not be ready to meet Stage 2 requirements of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) incentive program by next year

Lawyers for Minneapolis-based Virtual Radiologic (vRad) have amended the company’s patent-infringement complaint against Tandem Radiology, Direct Radiology and Imaging Advantage to also include an additional recent patent