After weeks of public campaigning, the movement to repeal a medical device manufacturer tax that will impact all makers of medical devices, including imaging equipment manufacturers, is scheduled to come to a vote this week in the House of Representatives.

Maryland-based IT developer Force 3, a provider of dental imaging for military customers, has acquired secureRAD of Annapolis, MD, which develops secure, cloud-based image-sharing technologies.

GE Healthcare signed a deal with Swedish contrast agent developer Affibody AB for the development of a PET imaging agent that targets Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (Her2), a breast cancer biomarker.

Global image-sharing provider Mach 7 Technologies inked a cross-marketing deal today with IT solutions provider Logicalis for the provision of vendor-neutral cloud archiving solutions worldwide.

The key products involved in the deal include the M7T Keystone Suite Enterprise Clinical Imaging Platform and the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud solution.

Radiology practice group Radisphere has been named a 2012 Red Herring Top 100 North America award winner.

Radiologists Kenneth Rall and Michael Richards were terminated from the Missouri University Health System today after a yearlong internal investigation revealed that they had committed Medicare fraud.

An article in the latest issue of The Economist advocates for open-source software coding to become standard practice in medical device development.

The 23rd state admitted to the United States is now claiming to be its first with a statewide medical image archive.