Preliminary recommendations for Stage Two of Meaningful Use are a step in the right direction, but significant gaps in the draft advice remain, ACR IT and Informatics Committee-Government Relations Subcommittee Chair Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, told advisors to the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC) in a meeting last week.

Preliminary results from two accountable care organization (ACO) pilot projects undertaken by CIGNA indicate that both are achieving lowered growth in healthcare costs as well as simultaneous improvements in the caliber of patient care.

Insight Health Services Holdings Corp., a provider of fixed-site and mobile diagnostic imaging services under the Insight Imaging name, late last week announced its emergence from Chapter 11 restructuring, thereby eliminating nearly $300 million of long-term debt. A new, $17.5 million revolving credit facility with Healthcare Finance Group will be

Airport scanners pose no significant radiation threat to air travelers, according to a study published the March 28 online issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

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