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HealthImaging News
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April 16, 2008 | Volume 6, Number 77
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Top Stories
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Senate call for delay in Medicare Physician Fee cut could lead to even higher cuts
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., has outlined a package of Medicare legislation that would delay the impending Medicare Physician Fee cuts until 2010, and immediately increase physician payments by 1.1 percent. However, the proposal would use balloon financing, potentially producing physician payment cuts of 21 percent in 2010. |
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Virtual Radiologic acquires Diagna Radiology for nearly $8.5M
Virtual Radiologic, a provider of teleradiology services, has acquired Diagna Radiology of Post Falls, Idaho, for $6 million in up-front cash and an additional $2.2 million in potential earn-out payments to be made over two years. |
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Industry News
Health IT grabs the attention of state governors
Health IT interest is growing steadily within state governments and state-backed health IT projects are high on the radar for proposed agendas, according to a report from Input, a government business research company.
EHR pilot gets six-month extension in Massachusetts
Pilot programs designed to help physicians in three Massachusetts towns pay for EHR software and participation in health information exchanges have been extended to the end of 2008, six months past the original June deadline.
TeraRecon founds German subsidiary, establishes European headquarters
TeraRecon has formed TeraRecon GmbH, registered in Frankfurt, Germany, a wholly owned subsidiary and the new European headquarters for the company.
New Products
Philips launches professional services portfolio for speech recognition
Royal Philips Electronics has launched its services portfolio to enable its global network of SpeechMagic partners to access the company’s healthcare documentation support.
INFINITT introduces remote system monitor
INFINITT North America, a provider of web-based image and information management solutions, has released its Omni I.T.S remote-monitoring solution to optimize performance and reliability of its single-database RIS/PACS/3D.
Merge Healthcare debuts eFilm Scan 2.0 as stand-alone scanning solution
Merge Healthcare has released its eFilm Scan 2.0, an application designed to scan conventional medical films using third-party digitizers, without the need for an eFilm Workstation desktop DICOM viewer.
Mergers & Acquisitions
InSight sells five California imaging centers to RadNet
InSight Health Services Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of InSight, completed the sale of five diagnostic imaging centers to RadNet Management.
Partnerships & Alliances
Boston Scientific, Surgi-Vision ink pact for MRI-safe technology
Boston Scientific has entered into a licensing and development agreement with Surgi-Vision for access to the latter’s MRI-safe technology.
Contracts & Installations
AMS nets 11 PACS orders last month
American Medical Sales (AMS) received orders for another 11 PACS sites from its distributor network during March.
DeJarnette nabs European PACS data migration order
DeJarnette Research Systems has received its first European legacy PACS data migration order.
Executive Announcements
FRG appoints Backstrom to CMO
Foundation Radiology Group (FRG), a radiology provider which uses board-certified radiologists to interpret diagnostic images for hospitals, has appointed James W. Backstrom, MD, to the position of chief medical officer (CMO).
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Molecular Imaging Insight
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 Health Imaging News (ISSN #1941-6873) is your source for the top medical imaging and healthcare IT stories of the week. Health Imaging News provides a comprehensive journal of mergers and acquisitions, new technologies, partnerships and alliances, calendar of coming events and executive announcements to make your week complete. Look for a new edition of Health Imaging News every afternoon Monday through Friday.
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