For the fourth year of in a row, AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management and Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., are offering grants to fund programs, training or seminars aimed at improving patient care and safety in CT, MR, Ultrasound, X-ray and Vascular imaging.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given 510(k) clearance for VitreaView, a new universal viewer from Minneapolis-based Vital Images Inc.

A group of primary care physicians from Georgia have filed suit against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, claiming that the agency and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are violating federal laws by relying on the American Medical Association

A final guidance on current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs) for PET radiopharmaceuticals has been issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Concord Medical Services, which operates a network of radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging centers in China, last week announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with GE Healthcare through GE subsidiaries, General Electric International Operations, and GE Medical Systems Trade and Development to form a preferred strategic partnership

One of health-care reform’s least controversial mandates was a requirement that hospitals improve their patient-satisfaction scores or take a reimbursement hit. In October 2012, CMS is set to begin withholding 1% of its payments to hospitals, putting the money (estimated at around $850 million for the first year) into a bonus pool that will be

The number-one reason cited by its radiologists for choosing a non-traditional practice setting is to align with a leading organization, according to a survey of its physicians by Radisphere, Westport, Connecticut. Running a close second and third were lifestyle/schedule flexibility and the backing of a professional support team, the poll reveals.

It was a small change with a big impact: On October 1, 2009, a provision of the 2009 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule amended how an entity is defined under the Stark self-referral law. Until then, a Stark entity had been defined as the person or organization that billed for a given service; the change expanded the