Medical imaging apps are included in a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance document covering the regulation of mobile medical applications used on smartphones and other mobile computing devices.

Overall U.S. health care prices showed a slight, steady increase in June, rising by 0.1%, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The agency’s Producer Price Indices (PPI), which measure average changes in selling prices received by domestic producers for their output, peg prices across the range of health care industries at 1.7%

Creating private non-profit, consumer-governed health insurance plans called Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs) is part of the U.S. government’s strategy to increase lower-cost health insurance options for its citizens under the Affordable Care Act.

This article is the first in a two-part series about how radiology practices can derive superior business intelligence from their existing coding and payment data.

Health-care IT professionals are no strangers to the complexities that arise from managing ever-growing archives. One particular subset of the data stored across the enterprise, however, might be overlooked: email archives. Although one analysis by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Milford, Massachusetts—a market-research and analyst company

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for early adopters to launch accountable-care organization (ACO) demonstration projects and shared-savings programs in 2012. The development of these value-added services and the general trend toward formation of ACOs will undoubtedly lead to changes not only in the acquisition of imaging

Thomas Pope, MD, a musculoskeletal MRI and breast-imaging specialist with Radisphere National Radiology Group (Beachwood, Ohio), began his career in subspecialty imaging before it was common for radiologists to be fellowship trained. “I never did a fellowship, but I received on-the-job training in musculoskeletal radiology from my mentor at the

This article is the second in a four-part series on options for hospital–practice integration. To read the first article, click here.