Most accountable care organizations (ACOs) are adopting one of four different approaches to creating new payment models, according to a new report sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation established to promote improvements in the U.S. health care system.

In a follow-up to an advisory issued on July 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has alerted health care professionals to stop using CardioGen-82 for cardiac PET scans.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Friday will release a report advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as to how it can refine its medical device approval process to quickly move products to market while preserving patient safety.

While providers may not object significantly to the idea of adopting electronic health records (EHRs), hurdles remain when it comes to convincing patients that their personal health information is truly safeguarded under an EHR umbrella.

Health care expenditures aren’t entirely rising across the board: The “cost growth” of medical care for individuals in employer-sponsored health plans has slowed to an annualized rate of 3.8% in the first three months of the year, compared to the “cost growth” rate of 6.3% recorded for the first quarter of 2010, according to the recently released

Zotec Partners, an Indianapolis, Ind.-based provider of medical billing, practice management, and radiology information systems (RIS) software and services, today announced that its Electronic Billing Center (EBC) RIS software version 6.7 has been tested and certified for Ambulatory Meaningful Use by the Certified HIT Product List (CHPL) under

President Obama and lawmakers in both parties are openly expressing their support of a new strategy for reducing the federal debt unveiled Tuesday, deeming the emerging plan to save $3.7 trillion over the next decade a viable means of helping to break a political impasse over the debt limit and avert a U.S. default.

Short-term hormone therapy (androgen deprivation therapy, or ADT) administered in combination with radiation therapy for men with early-stage prostate cancer increases their chance of living longer and not dying from the disease, compared with that of those who receive the same radiation therapy alone, according to a Radiation Therapy Oncology