The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced its first-ever app designed specifically for a physician audience.

Analyzing mammographic parenchymal patterns to measure the density of breast tissue has the potential to help clinicians better determine a woman's breast cancer risk as well as lead to better patient care by enabling more accurate density measurements.

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Shared Assessments Program earlier this week launched an initiative aimed at exploring the financial impact of unauthorized access to personal health information (PHI). Conceived with a goal of identifying frameworks for determining the economic impact of any disclosure or breach of protected

Office-based physicians play a vital role in national and state economies by supporting jobs, purchasing goods and services, and generating tax revenue, according to a recent report released by the American Medical Association. In 2009, AMA research indicates, office-based physicians contributed $1.4 trillion in economic activity and supported four

The nation remains on track to implement healthcare reform by 2014, a top Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) executive tells healthcare officials in Tennessee this week.

Nordion Inc. yesterday announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to conduct two Phase III clinical trials of its TheraSphere therapeutic radiopharmaceutical. Both trials are cleared under an FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert has signed into law House Bill 238, making Utah the 29th U.S. state to license, regulate, or recognize the radiologist assistant (RA) as a member of the radiology healthcare team.

The Diagnostic Imaging Business Unit of Bayer Vital GmbH, a Leverkusen, Germany-based provider of contrast agents for diagnostic imaging, and Vital Images Inc., a vendor of software for digital image post-processing in MRI and CT, have signed an agreement to collaborate on activities aimed at introducing radiologists in Germany to the combination