Costs associated with conversion to the ICD-10 code set may total $640 million in 2013 alone, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed Wednesday during a briefing virtual briefing held by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

The supercommittee tasked with reducing the U.S. budget deficit would do well to repeal President Obama’s health care reform law, as well as to significantly alter Medicare and Medicaid alike, say Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee.

Merge Healthcare, a Chicago-based provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, announced that its Merge RIS v7.0 radiology information system has been certified for Meaningful Use.

Utilization rates for imaging procedures in hospital emergency departments (EDs) are increasing, indicates a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

An assessment of appropriate advanced imaging utilization for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, being conducted on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is now underway.

GE Healthcare today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its SenoBright1 Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) technology.

The “super-committee” charged by President Obama with slashing $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion from the U.S. budget deficit over the next 10 years should not accomplish part of this task by cutting $3.5 billion from the $15 billion Prevention and Public Health Fund.

An aging global population, growing need for early disease diagnosis, an increase in the number of diagnostic centers, and development of advanced imaging technologies and radiopharmaceuticals will boost the global market for bioimaging technologies to a projected $37.4 billion by the year 2017.