GE Healthcare earlier this week announced that it is collaborating with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to explore the efficacy of actionable health alerts delivered instantly to physicians’ EMRs.

New efforts are warranted to develop and refine quality-of-care and other performance measures that can assure new payment models will improve medical care without harming patients, according to a study recently released by RAND Corporation.
 
The study reveals that although certain currently employed quality measurement tools may be useful to new

Radiologists who interpret a high volume of mammograms may not detect more cancers, but are better at determining which suspicious lesions are not malignant, according to a new study published online and in the April print edition of Radiology.

Implementing healthcare reform and meeting stage 1 "meaningful use" requirements comprise the top two priorities of healthcare IT professionals, reveals a survey released earlier this week by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) at its annual meeting.

Royal Philips Electronics and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a collaborative endeavor wherein the latter’s iSite PACS will be integrated with the Microsoft Amalga data aggregation platform.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued evidence-based guidelines for the use of palliative radiotherapy to treat bone metastases.

Utah’s House of Representatives late last week passed a bill that would allow a radiologist assistant to perform radiological procedures under the supervision of a radiologist.

The single stand-alone hospital may be a “concept of the past”, John Reiboldt, managing director of Coker Capital Advisors, told an audience at the HIMSS11 conference in Orlando, Fla., yesterday.