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Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands and the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands have signed an agreement to jointly research new multimodality imaging solutions aimed at improving the early detection and treatment of cancer and neurological and cardiovascular diseases.
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has filed a complaint against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in U.S. District Court, alleging that Sebelius, in her capacity as the HHS secretary, unlawfully adopted the payment rates for cardiology services in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) by using an invalid Physician Practice Information Survey (PPIS) in a manner that “threatens access to care for patients and…increases medical care costs.”
The European Union has granted heart disease monitoring systems developer VentriPoint Diagnostics CE mark approval for its VentriPoint Medical System (VMS).
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.
Coronary artery calcium scoring appears to foster efficient selective testing patterns among asymptomatic individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to the prospective EISNER trial published Sept. 29 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
A strategy of systematic coronary angiography can positively impact the long-term outcome of peripheral arterial disease surgical patients at medium to high risk, according to a study in the Sept. 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
SonoSite, a Bothell-Wash.-based supplier of hand-carried ultrasound, has completed the acquisition of CardioDynamics.
Childhood cancer survivors treated with total-body or abdominal radiation may have an increased risk of diabetes, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. The correlation does not appear to be related to a patient's body mass index or physical inactivity.
Examining emergency department (ED) chest pain patients with coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is a quick and economical way to rule out serious cardiovascular disease, according to a study presented today at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual conference in New Orleans.
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is using the latest optical molecular imaging technology from Carestream Molecular Imaging as part of its research efforts involving cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious agents, inflammatory disease and other conditions.
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School have built targeted nanoparticles that can cling to artery walls and slowly release medicine, which could be an alternative to drug-eluting stents in some patients with cardiovascular disease, according to research published in the Jan. 18 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study performed at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore will utilize Digisonics’ DigiView Image Management and Reporting System to record study data.
Smoking and obesity were rated the most significant risk factors affecting the health of Americans and the rising healthcare costs, according to the 2009 America’s Health Ranking report.
In patients with heart rates of 65 beats per minutes or less, dual-source CT angiography has a higher specificity and accuracy at segment-based analysis than 64-slice CT, but provides a comparable diagnostic accuracy on a patient-based level, according to a study in this month's Radiology.
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis have received more than $12 million in federal stimulus grants, which will be partly used for molecular imaging research.
An opinion piece in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology lambasted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its decision denying coverage of CT colonography (CTC) for colorectal cancer screening.
The development of new light-emitting biomaterial at the University of Virginia, reported in a study in the current online edition of Nature Materials, could simplify the imaging of oxygen-deficient areas of tumors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a 21.5 percent rate reduction for the 2010 calendar year to more than one million physicians and non-physician practitioners who are paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
Cardinal Health has signed a three-year agreement to offer its medical-surgical, pharmaceutical and laboratory supplies to MedAxiom members.
GE and Intel have formed an alliance to market and develop home-based health technologies to remotely monitor seniors and patients with chronic conditions, according to an announcement made at a joint press conference in New York City today, hosted by Intel's CEO and President Paul Otellini and GE's CEO and Board Chairman Jeffrey Immelt.
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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.