The Obama administration announced Wednesday the resignation of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Donald Berwick, MD. Berwick’s last day will be Friday, December 2, and his principal deputy administrator, Marilyn Tavenner, will serve as interim administrator until the Senate votes to make her appointment permanent.

Harvard Medical School’s Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI) and health care benefits heavy-hitter Aetna have announced plans to initiate a research collaborative aimed at enhancing the quality and cost of health care. Researchers participating in the endeavor will employ bioinformatics to analyze health care data in new ways.

AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management has approved the formation of an online data, analytics, and benchmarking tool in collaboration with radiology services and solutions provider Regents Health Resources, Inc., Franklin, Tennessee. The product will be developed with input from AHRA member facilities and will utilize Regents'

The failure of the Congressional supercommittee to reach a compromise on spending cuts has positive and negative implications for the radiology sector and the health care community in general.

In its first such move under its new powers to review health insurance increases that exceed 10%, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday asked Everence Insurance to reduce its proposed premium increases to 5,000 patients in Pennsylvania.

Radimetrics, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of radiation dose monitoring and management software, and Montage, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based provider of software for radiology data mining and performance measurement, have formed a technology partnership aimed at offering tools that combine radiation dose monitoring capabilities with

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today released the standards and guidelines that form the basis of its ACO accreditation program.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has instituted a 90-day grace period for compliance with version 5010 of the HIPAA X12 standard. While January 1, 2012 remains the “official compliance date", the agency reported it will not “initiate enforcement action” on that compliance before March 31, 2012.