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The National Insitutes of Health's Molecular imaging and contrast agent database (MICAD) has added 13 new (PET, SPECT, MRI) agents.
The administration of President Barack Obama is requesting $911 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its 2011 federal budget proposal, with an additional $110 million requested for continued health IT efforts.
GE Global Research, a subsidiary of GE has been awarded a four-year, $3.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to aid the development of a new cryogen-free magnet technology.
The John E. Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Md., will award more than $9.23 million to eight global health informatics programs over the next five years.
Kaiser Permanente has received 22 grants worth more than $54 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems have announced they will support the first pilot programs designed to implement a federal government initiative designed to make it easier for individual to register and participate in government websites. The companies will act as digital identity providers using OpenID and Information Card technologies.
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR) have released statements defending the radiology profession in wake of a recent study and perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine on imaging and radiation exposure that has garnered national media attention.
The growth of genomic and proteomic data has ushered in a new era of molecular medicine in which cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment are tailored to each individual's molecular profile, according to researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. This personalized medicine approach requires researchers to discover and link biomarkers, such as genes or proteins, to specific disease behaviors, such as the rate of tumor progression and different responses to treatments.
Wayne State University in Detroit has received nearly $18 million in research grants under the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 program.
Emory University in Atlanta has been a major beneficiary of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
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Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Concern about the cancer risk from low medical level radiation, particularly low-dose radiation delivered from CT scans, has been growing in the healthcare community.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center are incorporating radiation dose exposure reports into the EMR, an effort that they hope will lead to an accurate assessment of whether any cancer risk is associated with low-dose radiation exposure from medical imaging tests, based on an article in February’s Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Radiofrequency ablation can possibly alleviate the intensity of pain brought on by bone metastases, according to a study published online Jan. 4 in Cancer.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released its Health IT Portfolio, revealing that the agency funded 124 grants and 26 contracts in 2008—the vast majority of which were multi-year in duration. In total, AHRQ will provide nearly one-quarter of a billion dollars in support over the lifetime of the projects, equaling $151 million for the grants and $70 million for the contracts.
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, in collaboration with biopharmaceutical company Novelos Therapeutics, was awarded a $950,371 competitive grant by the National Institutes of Health to study two Novelos compounds–NOV-002 and NOV-205–for the mitigation and treatment of radiation-induced pulmonary injury.
Abnormal results on outpatient imaging tests sometimes may not receive timely follow-up even when clinicians receive and read results in an advanced, integrated EMR system, according to a study in the Sept. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland has received a $4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to fund its Case Center for Synchrotron Biosciences
Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center is hoping to safeguard its clinical research patients from radiation exposure by requiring CT and PET/CT equipment purchased by the NIH Clinical Center to be routinely record exposure dose in a patient's hospital-based EMR.
Two University of Arizona researchers have formed a research team to design, build and evaluate two versions of an ovarian cancer medical imaging and screening instrument that will use holographic components in a new type of optical microscope.
By manipulating a patient's 3D cardiac MR images, physicians can compare how alternative approaches affect blood flow and expected outcomes, and can select the best approach for the patient before entering the operating room, according to research in this month's issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.