San Francisco outpatient diagnostic imaging provider Fusion Diagnostic Group LLC has been purchased by the California Pacific Medical Center, part of the not-for-profit Northern California healthcare network Sutter Health.

Rising health care costs and health care reform—particularly the creation of health insurance exchanges (HIEs)--may actually benefit, rather than hurt, 10 health care sub-segments.

Twenty medical specialty groups today urged the Congressional Supercommittee to scrap the controversial Medicare payment advisory panel (IPAB) established under health care reform law.

Lawyers for California and the federal government today urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to allow patients and doctors to initiating lawsuits over cuts to Medicaid payments.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has issued for manufacturers a draft guidance that updates and streamlines the evaluation of automatic class III designation, the de novo review process used for certain innovative, low- to moderate-risk medical devices that do not meet the requirements for clearance under the 510(k)

The culture of radiation therapy may be changing, but neither the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) nor the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the primary federal agency responsible for regulating many technologies used in radiation therapy, is interested in creating a punitive environment for radiation oncologists. Rather, the

A new report from CapSite, a Burlington, Vermont-based health care technology research and advisory firm, indicates that an installed base with rapidly aging software, as well as pressure to satisfy U.S. IT Meaningful Use requirements, may propel the U.S. radiology information system (RIS) market forward.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) earlier this week announced changes to accreditation criteria. The changes come as a result of a challenge posed to the society’s committees by Board of Chancellors Chairman John Patti, MD, to update the criteria to make accreditation more scalable in light of the Medicare mandate that most practices become