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Health Imaging News Highlights | Oct. 10, 2008

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In this edition:
  • CMS ramps ups fraud, waste prevention; launches national RAC program
  • DoJ intervenes in whistleblower suit against McKesson
  • Partners employees charged in hospital IT kickback scheme
  • MedPAC to vote on industry-physician disclosure requirements
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HEADLINES

Health Systems to acquire Emageon for $62M

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
 
Health Systems Solutions has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100 percent of Emageon’s stock, in an all cash transaction of approximately $62 million.

Philips Q3 profit falls, despite higher revenues

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
 
Philips Healthcare reported a 5 percent increase in sales in its 2008 third quarter, however, it posted sharply lower third-quarter profit that missed forecasts, which the company said is partly due to the credit crisis in the United States.

FDA draft guidance targets timely regulation, labeling for imaging drugs, devices

Monday, October 13, 2008
 
The FDA is seeking public comment on a draft guidance for medical imaging devices with contrast agents or radiopharmaceuticals that focuses on developing new contrast indications for imaging device use with already approved imaging products.

GE Healthcare sees challenging Q3

Monday, October 13, 2008
 
GE reported a 22 percent decline in profit overall, and its Healthcare unit, now a part of the Technology Infrastructure segment, posted an 8 percent decline in profit for the company’s 2008 third quarter financial results.
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Allscripts, Misys complete $325M merger

Industry News | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
After a series of financial roadblocks, Misys Healthcare Systems has finalized its purchase of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, in a transaction totaling $325 million. The result of the merger is the formation of a new company, Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.

eHealth Global helps RHIOs, community health networks exchange images

New Products | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
eHealth Global Technologies has released its Image Exchange Service for regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and Community Health Networks.

NuView takes control of Texas radioisotope production facility

Industry News | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
NuView Life Sciences has agreed to assume management of Trace Life Sciences, including operations of the linear accelerator and cyclotron production facilities in Denton, Texas.

Volcano relocates headquarters

Industry News | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Volcano, a developer of intravascular ultrasound, has moved its corporate headquarters from Northern California's Rancho Cordova to San Diego.

Technology, protocols aid CCTA dose reduction

Conference News | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
PHOENIX–The utilization of CT in imaging has exploded over the past several years as technology has evolved its capabilities to deliver even greater diagnostic information for clinicians; however, the boom in deployment of the modality has raised questions about acceptable levels of radiation for patients undergoing procedures, according to a presentation this week at the 2008 North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) annual meeting.

GE, Boston Scientific ink IVUS collaboration

Conference News | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
WASHINGTON—GE Healthcare and Boston Scientific partnered to improve intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) workflow between GE’s Innova cardiovascular x-ray system and Boston Scientific’s iLab ultrasound imaging system this week at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference.

FiatLux, Data Distributing seal distribution deal for 3D imaging software

Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Data Distributing, a provider of digital image distribution and archiving solutions, has signed a contract to distribute FiatLux Imaging’s medical imaging software, Visualize, in the United States.

HCCS, MedLearn to deliver coding, reimbursement online courses

Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
HCCS - Experts in Healthcare Learning has partnered with Medical Learning, to deliver a new series of online, interactive training courses in the areas of coding, billing and reimbursement. The library of more than 50 online courses will educate hospital and clinic physicians, coders, billing staff and administrators on compliance and best practices to maximize reimbursement, the companies said.

EDS to host data center for FDA

Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
EDS will condense FDA applications from five agency data centers into one EDS-managed data center for production operations, as part of the FDA’s new $2.5 billion award program to update its IT and data center management services over the next 10 years.

Fujifilm wins single-source FFDM contract from Amerinet

Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Amerinet, a U.S. healthcare group purchasing organization, has awarded Fujifilm Medical Systems USA a full-field digital mammography (FFDM) contract for their CR-based digital mammography systems.

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