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CMS updates hospital compare site to include readmission, mortality stats

Friday, 10 July 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has added new information to the Hospital Compare Web site that reports how frequently patients return to a hospital after being discharged, as a possible indicator of how well the facility did the first time around.

Report: About 45,000 Medicaid providers will qualify for health IT incentives

Thursday, 09 July 2009
About 45,000 office-based physicians--including nearly all physicians who practice at federally qualified health centers and half of office-based pediatricians--may be eligible for up to $63,750 to improve and maintain their health IT systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to an analysis by researchers at the George Washington University. 

MDS urges Canada to restart MAPLE project in lieu of prolonged NRU shutdown

Thursday, 09 July 2009
MDS Nordion, a medical isotope and radiopharmaceutical provider, is urging the Canadian government and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited to complete the Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment (MAPLE) project to address the global shortage of medical isotopes. The company's statement is particularly compelling following the AECL announcement Wednesday that the 52-year-old National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River, Ont., will not return to service before late 2009.

Hospitals align with Obama Administration's health reform, forgoing $155B

Wednesday, 08 July 2009

A collection of hospital industry groups, accompanied by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a White House press conference on Wednesday, agreed to accept $155 billion less in reimbursements from the federal government in an attempt to ensure that healthcare reform will be deficit-neutral.

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ICAD: MRI map may help diagnose dementia disorders

Conference News | Friday, 10 July 2009
Physicians may be able to differentially diagnose three common neurodegenerative disorders via MRI in the near future, according to a study presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) on July 11 in Vienna.

Radiotherapy access uneven in U.K.

Industry News | Friday, 10 July 2009
There are marked geographical variations in patients' access to radiotherapy across England, as well as important differences in treatment capacity, according to a Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) survey published in the July edition of Clinical Oncology.

Social Security seeks to link more providers through NHIN

Industry News | Friday, 10 July 2009
The Social Security Administration is seeking to expand the number of healthcare providers it exchanges medical information with electronically to improve the speed and accuracy of its disability determinations.

AMIC questions CMS utilization rate increase

Industry News | Friday, 10 July 2009
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) has released a "concerned" statement over the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) recent recommendations to President Barack Obama and Congress to reduce Medicare reimbursement rates for medical imaging and radiation therapies through an increase of 90 percent in assumed utilization rates for outpatient imaging and radiation facilities. 

Canadian foundation awards nearly $3M for brain imaging research

Industry News | Friday, 10 July 2009
A $2.8 million ($2.4 million, U.S.) grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation will enable Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) researchers to combine the power of genetics and brain imaging to personalize treatment.

AJR: Cardiac CT reduces costs, hospital stay for low-risk patients with chest pain

Clinical Studies | Friday, 10 July 2009
The use of cardiac CT for low-risk chest pain patients in the emergency department--instead of the traditional standard-of-care workup--may reduce a patient's length of stay and hospital charges, according to a single-center study in the July issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

EHRs improve chronic illness care

Industry News | Thursday, 09 July 2009
Specialty care physicians can improve the health of high-risk patients by reviewing EHRs and proactively providing e-consultations and treatment plan recommendations with primary care physicians, according to the results of a Kaiser Permanente pilot project published online July 9 in the British Medical Journal.

FDA, Health Canada greenlight Lantheus' Mo-99 from Australia

Regulatory News | Thursday, 09 July 2009
Lantheus Medical Imaging has been granted a supplemental new drug application from the FDA and a supplemental new drug submission from Health Canada to qualify the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization as a valid supplier for low-enriched uranium-derived molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) to the United States and Canada.

RTI debuts updated dose profiler

New Products | Thursday, 09 July 2009
RTI Electronics has released a second-generation dose probe for CT quality assurance--the CT Dose Profiler.

ThinAir scores RIS contracts

Contracts & Installations | Thursday, 09 July 2009
ThinAir Data has closed new contracts in Pennsylvania, Missouri and Texas for its TeleRIS system.

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