Continuing the debate on the “breast density issue”, the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee (NMQAAC) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will convene on Friday to debate whether the latter should require mammography facilities to reveal the presence of breast density in women via reports sent to referring

A 27.4% reduction in Medicare payments to physicians has been stipulated in the final rule for the 2012 physician fee schedule released yesterday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The payment reduction, which is based on the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, was anticipated to have been a slightly higher 29.5%.

Carestream Health announced that version 11 of its Vue RIS has been certified as an electronic health record (EHR) module by the Certification Commission For Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), in accordance with applicable hospital and eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Medicare must exercise much more stringent oversight of hospitals, according to a report issued today by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The congressional supercommittee responsible for finding an additional $1.2 trillion worth of health care expenditures to eliminate from the federal deficit by Thanksgiving will experience significant challenges in getting the job done, reveals a perspective authored by researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) and published

Some 56 million U.S. consumers have accessed their medical information on an electronic health record (EHR) system maintained by their physician, and an additional 41 million are interested in doing so.

Although manufacturers of diagnostic imaging scanners and computer systems are arguably among the leaders in developing energy-efficient products, radiologists themselves can play a role in making the delivery of health care more environmentally friendly say both an HHS report and a JACR study published this week.

A rule that strikes back against imaging cuts advocated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Pete Olson (R-TX) and Betty McCollum (D-MN).